Labor of Love

Let Your Hair Down is a follow-up to Steve Miller's Bingo! from 2010, and the tracks for this new release were recorded at the same sessions at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch studio with Andy Johns engineering and co-producing, and like Bingo!, Let Your Hair Down finds Miller re-exploring his Chicago blues roots. Miller and his band have always included a few old blues numbers in their concerts, so these are road-tested gems that are obviously close to Miller's heart and soul, and they include the last recordings of Miller's longtime collaborator (and harmonica whiz) Norton Buffalo, who died of lung cancer in 2009 shortly after these sessions. Miller has always had the ability to adapt blues forms into his pop work, but this outing, like Bingo!, is a full-fledged blues record…

La Vie My Life is an album of favorite songs from the American Songbook of the Artist, Linda Calise….The title cut La Vie En Rose was recorded first in dedication to Calise's late Mother and inspired the rest of the album to be recorded. Several of the songs on the Album were arranged and recorded by Producer Joe Carrier and feature lush string arrangements recorded at WGBH Fraser Hall in Boston MA.. World renowned violinist Ben Powell is also featured on several tracks on the CD along with many wonderful local Boston Jazz musicians. Sax Master Bob Bowlby who has toured with the likes of Buddy Rich and The Boston Pops and Trombonist Jeff Galindo who toured with Esperanza Spaulding as her Musical Director on her 2013-2014 World Tour…