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New dates for the upcoming summer are now accessible on the schedule page. It has been a long winter and milder than usual spring. Paul's trip to New Orleans has jumpstarted the juices in that way he always counts on. Do come on out and see us. We need you!! Paul recently had the fine luck to be enlisted to interview one of his all-time heroes, Allen Toussaint as a prelude to his recent appearance in Milwaukee. The interview was broadcast at 4:00PM CST on Thur. Feb.11 on frontier radioWMSE 91.7 on your FM dial. It should be accessible as a download from the MSE archives. Look for "The Blues Drive" from Feb.11 and fast forward on to the 4 o'clock hour. Earthy elegance is at a premium and Mr. Toussaint most certainly wears it like a crown. Allen Toussaint Interview In a surprise development, Paul has cooked up a new solo, acoustic record,'One Little Light On' (his first in 33 years of professional-ish plunking). It is available at live performances for the present time (as well as on the store page through CDBaby and at a few select retailers.), starting with Paul's performances in the inscrutable East w/ Chris Smither and continuing with November's throwdown at Shank Hall as part of the club's 20th anniversary festivities. The strictly solo mood is broken with a Merseyfied duo performance w/ Willy Porter of their tune, 'Didn't Bring It Up' which also figures in the festivities of Willy's new record, 'How To Rob A Bank' , The record also features recent co-writes with Peter Mulvey, Pat McLaughlin , Paul Finger and Tony Jarvis as well as a few of Paul's favorites by a few of his favorites, Dayna Kurtz, Stephin Merritt and John Sieger. Add in a couple of sophisto crooners and a few of Paul's tender little missives and retire to the dimly lit ballroom as they sweep up.
Our dear collaboration with David Greenberger (as described below*) came to a new fruition with the airing on November 18 (on WMVS- Channel 10 in Milwaukee at 8PM and again on Sun. the 22nd at 7PM) of both,'A King In Milwaukee', a documentary by Brad Lichtenstein and Nicole Brown on David's work in general and our collaboration in specific and 'Cherry-Picking Apple Blossom Time' a one hour winning winnowing of our memorable concert presented this past May at the starkly incandescent Pabst Theater (also described below*). If you've the poor fortune of not residing in Milwaukee, perhaps you could request that your local PBS affiliate pick it up for viewing. (By the way, if you haven't picked up the bold and ridiculous, effusive and generous CD, 'Cherry Picking Apple Blossom Time' then I believe now is the time. if you don't believe us, check out Robyn Hitchcock's ringing endorsement of the aforementioned in BLURT online.)
*Years and years ago, Paul became a fan of the Duplex Planet, a remarkable journal that has been published continually since the 70's by big-hearted adventurer, David Greenberger. When news reached us that David would be Artist in Residence for 2008 under the auspices of The Center on Aging and Community at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, grand peals of laughter and delight were heard in the Cebar household. When our boy, Paul, was enlisted to act as music director, a lively, very humorously fertile collaboration was begun. Recording took place in August and October of last year and the recorded document of those sessions, "CHERRY PICKING APPLE BLOSSOM TIME" will be available in a limited manner shortly and more widely come Autumn '09. To celebrate it's completion and to see just what these spoken word w/ wide-ranging (rambunctious to eerily intimate) musical counterpoint pieces would sound like in a grand room, David, Paul, Bob Jennings, Mac Perkins,Reggie Bordeaux, Mike Fredrickson and our dear John Sieger will be performing at Milwaukee's Pabst Theater on Wed. May 13th at 8:00 PM. The record and show will consist of monologues based on David's conversations w/ elderly Milwaukeeans delivered as spoken songs as only he can with new, subtly interactive, searching music from the Cebar corner.More details at: www. duplexplanet.com
Mike Fredrickson, mastermind of The Mosleys ( Paul's favorite Milwaukee band of the 90's) and grand, distinguished photo-realist painter has joined our band on bass. Spirited, humorous musicality is sure to ensue. New tunes are in the setlist.We need you to see us to activate their secret code!
Sunday November 2,2008--Paul and Bob have been out knocking on doors as volunteers for the Barack Obama campaign. May we at long last replace boundless disgust and dismay with pride and resourcefulness...Intelligence, actual humor, and genuine empathy. Go Barack!!!!
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come celebrate our new CD Tommorow Sound Now For Yes Music People We'd love for you to buy it,too. Lots o' wandering We've a new myspace music site.Here's the MySpace URL: http://www.myspace.com/paulcebartommorowsound Paul recently took part in a remarkable concert in Newburgh,NY with the grand percussionist Jeffrey Haynes. They've been collaborating over the past few years. Look for an album of their hijinx in the not too distant future. Paul has continued to explore the alluring realm of co-writing with Peter Mulvey,Willie Porter, Chuck Mead, Jim Lauderdale, Robin Pluer, and that fantastic Pat McLaughlin. (They're all fantastic...really folks!) One of his co-written tunes with Grammy winning Terrance Simien is available on "Tommorow Sound............" as is a tune co-written with longterm compadre, Mike Fleming. Peter Mulvey's last few records include songs co-written with Mr. C as does Willy Porter's most recent release.
You might want to track down "The Joe South Tribute Record" on the Jackpine Social Club label to hear Paul's soulful take on 'Untie Me', a tune that Joe wrote for the Tams. Paul's in very good company on the album with other tracks from the likes of Otis Clay, Kelly Hogan, Chuck Prophet, Kelly Stoltz and a grand assortment of other heavy hitters. |
