An updated version of this article is here:
http://www.slideshare.net/Revkin/why-songs-not
After 30 years as a prize-winning science journalist and author, Andy Revkin has finally carved the time to record some of the songs he's been writing and performing in that same span. Here's how a scare from a "lucky" stroke and the help of a lot of musical friends, including Dar Williams, combined, resulting in his first CD -- "A Very Fine Line."
Download: http://www.Revkin.bandcamp.com
Community: http://www.Facebook.com/veryfinelinemusic
Home page: http://Veryfinelines.com
The Science Debate initiative, formed to press politicians to state their views on science and science policy, has released answers by Mitt Romney and President Obama to 14 questions. The group's Web site is overloaded so it has given permission to download this file for use on Dot Earth.
The Science Debate site: http://www.sciencedebate.org/debate12/
Dot Earth posts on the presidency:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/presidency/
This document provides information on various apps and tools that can help students with disabilities access education. It lists apps for text-to-speech, mirroring, podcasts, audiobooks, digital story creation, closed captioning, lyrics, and more. The document emphasizes that these tools not only provide accessibility, but help students access their abilities. It highlights that 14% of students have some type of disability.
This section of the Cohen Commission report on troubles with British Columbia's Faser River sockeye salmon run explores evidence (page 77) that volcanic eruptions have boosted populations by fertilizing large plankton blooms.
The full report, “The Uncertain Future of Fraser River Sockeye,” is available at http://www.cohencommission.ca
This is posted for the Dot Earth blog in relation to controversial efforts by the Haida Gwaii first nation to fertilize runs artificially by distributing iron dust at sea. More soon on Dot Earth: http://j.mp/dotironfert
Scientific American: http://j.mp/sciamironfert
Vancouver Sun:
http://j.mp/vanouvsunironfert
The Iowa Wesleyan College Career Services Center will provide guidance to students, faculty, staff and alumni on career planning and the job market through updated information, materials, and programs from the Career Services Director. This includes personality and skills assessments, career counseling, information on careers and requirements, assistance with internships and the job search process, and hosting career programs and fairs. Resources like handouts, job postings, and GRE information are also available.
1. The document discusses digital citizenship and outlines guidelines for students, teachers, parents, and school management regarding acceptable and responsible use of technology.
2. Key guidelines for students include publishing digital work while protecting privacy, managing online identity, avoiding plagiarism, following procedures to stay safe online, and addressing cyberbullying.
3. Teachers are advised to model safe technology use, teach digital citizenship lessons, monitor student online activities, and establish classroom practices. School management should implement general policies around passwords, filters, equity and access, and addressing abuse or misuse.
This document summarizes some of the challenges faced by journalists in effectively covering environmental issues. Some key difficulties include:
1) Most environmental problems unfold incrementally over time rather than as single events, making them difficult to cover within the constraints of daily news cycles and the need for a "news peg".
2) Striking the right balance between opposing viewpoints while also accurately conveying scientific consensus is challenging given time and space limitations.
3) Effectively communicating complex scientific information to a generally non-expert audience within the constraints of news articles can distort reporting and perpetuate confusion.
A note from The Nature Conservancy about successful state and local initiatives focused on conservation projects. Posted for The New York Times Dot Earth blog.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com
http://
http://www.nature.org/
The Science Debate initiative, formed to press politicians to state their views on science and science policy, has released answers by Mitt Romney and President Obama to 14 questions. The group's Web site is overloaded so it has given permission to download this file for use on Dot Earth.
The Science Debate site: http://www.sciencedebate.org/debate12/
Dot Earth posts on the presidency:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/presidency/
This document provides information on various apps and tools that can help students with disabilities access education. It lists apps for text-to-speech, mirroring, podcasts, audiobooks, digital story creation, closed captioning, lyrics, and more. The document emphasizes that these tools not only provide accessibility, but help students access their abilities. It highlights that 14% of students have some type of disability.
This section of the Cohen Commission report on troubles with British Columbia's Faser River sockeye salmon run explores evidence (page 77) that volcanic eruptions have boosted populations by fertilizing large plankton blooms.
The full report, “The Uncertain Future of Fraser River Sockeye,” is available at http://www.cohencommission.ca
This is posted for the Dot Earth blog in relation to controversial efforts by the Haida Gwaii first nation to fertilize runs artificially by distributing iron dust at sea. More soon on Dot Earth: http://j.mp/dotironfert
Scientific American: http://j.mp/sciamironfert
Vancouver Sun:
http://j.mp/vanouvsunironfert
The Iowa Wesleyan College Career Services Center will provide guidance to students, faculty, staff and alumni on career planning and the job market through updated information, materials, and programs from the Career Services Director. This includes personality and skills assessments, career counseling, information on careers and requirements, assistance with internships and the job search process, and hosting career programs and fairs. Resources like handouts, job postings, and GRE information are also available.
1. The document discusses digital citizenship and outlines guidelines for students, teachers, parents, and school management regarding acceptable and responsible use of technology.
2. Key guidelines for students include publishing digital work while protecting privacy, managing online identity, avoiding plagiarism, following procedures to stay safe online, and addressing cyberbullying.
3. Teachers are advised to model safe technology use, teach digital citizenship lessons, monitor student online activities, and establish classroom practices. School management should implement general policies around passwords, filters, equity and access, and addressing abuse or misuse.
This document summarizes some of the challenges faced by journalists in effectively covering environmental issues. Some key difficulties include:
1) Most environmental problems unfold incrementally over time rather than as single events, making them difficult to cover within the constraints of daily news cycles and the need for a "news peg".
2) Striking the right balance between opposing viewpoints while also accurately conveying scientific consensus is challenging given time and space limitations.
3) Effectively communicating complex scientific information to a generally non-expert audience within the constraints of news articles can distort reporting and perpetuate confusion.
A note from The Nature Conservancy about successful state and local initiatives focused on conservation projects. Posted for The New York Times Dot Earth blog.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com
http://
http://www.nature.org/
Andrew Revkin's 1994 profile of the masterful luthier Linda Manzer. Blending spruce, sweat and sawdust, Linda Manzer builds guitars that
dazzle.
Photos by Peter Sibbald https://petersibbald.visura.co
Linda Manzer:
https://manzer.com
Andy Revkin:
http://j.mp/revkinlinks
In 1985, my editor, Scott DeGarmo, asked me to write a cover story on the future of the automobile - when the future was the Ford Taurus. It's now kind of a museum artifact and I hope you enjoy it and offer feedback.
This is the core of a webinar Andy Revkin conducted with folks at Columbia Climate School to explore how scientists, scholars and others seeking to craft a better human journey can make the most of Twitter even as Elon Musk's purchase disrupts things. We also talked about alternatives, none of which Revkin sees as remotely competing with the capacities Twitter offers for a long time. (It took a decade of relentless programming, regulatory and other work to build the Twitter we know.)
Subscribe to Revkin's Sustain What newsletter and webcasts to engage and drive the conversation further:
https://revkin.substack.com/subscribe #socialmedia #sustainability #climate
This is a fantastic case study and overview showing how businesses can prepare for the hazards around them to cut the scope of impacts - preventing a natural hazard from becoming an unnatural disaster.
It centers on the experience and work of Parsons Manufacturing, a company that suffered a direct hit from an EF-4 tornado in 2004 but avoided any deaths.
Learn more at the company website:
https://www.parsonscompany.com/about/
A #COP26 presentation by Zainab Usman of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Katie Auth of Energy for Development, building on this paper: September 28, 2021
REFRAMING CLIMATE JUSTICE FOR DEVELOPMENT: SIX PRINCIPLES FOR SUPPORTING INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE ENERGY TRANSITIONS IN LOW-EMITTING ENERGY-POOR AFRICAN COUNTRIES
By Mimi Alemayehou, Katie Auth, Murefu Barasa, Morgan Bazilian, Brad Handler, Uzo Iweala, Todd Moss, Rose Mutiso, Zainab Usman
Advancing inclusive and equitable energy transitions is one of this century’s most vital global challenges, and one in which development finance will play a crucial role. References to justice and equity are widespread in international climate policy, and are increasingly being used by development organizations to guide their own work, including support for energy transitions.
But prevailing definitions of climate justice rarely fully capture the priorities, challenges and perspectives of low-emitting energy-poor countries, the vast majority of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. When applied to development policy, this gap risks prioritizing near-term emissions reductions over broader support for economic development and energy transformation, with comparatively little climate benefit. This could severely hinder poverty alleviation, development, and climate resilience — the very opposite of justice. We need energy transitions that are truly ‘just and inclusive.’ What does this mean for development funders and financiers, and how should it drive their approach to supporting energy transitions in the lowest-income countries?
Rene Dubos was a masterful biologist, Pulitzer-winning essayist and humanist. Read the story behind this essay in Andy Revkin's homage to Dubos here: http://j.mp/despairingoptimist
This is a summary of the three-week international survey of the vaquita refuge in heavily fished waters of the northern Gulf of California of the coast of Mexico's Baja California state. It shows what can be accomplished with a fresh effort in the fall of 2021.
The expedition included scientists and conservationists from Mexico, the United States and Canada.
This chapter on climate change as news, by Andrew Revkin is from "Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren" - edited by Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman
MIT Press 2007, updated edition, 2014
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=xsxkAlEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=xsxkAlEAAAAJ:edDO8Oi4QzsC
Alice Bell's new book on the history of climate change knowledge and inaction is fantastic. Some have missed what is NOT in the CIA's 1974 assessment of climate change and security risk. There's no mention of global warming from carbon dioxide. Here's a Guardian excerpt from Alice's book: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored
Here's the original CIA document without text recognition: https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=725433
The strategic narrative outlines five key shifts: from control to credible influence in an open system; from containment to sustainment and domestic focus; from deterrence and defense to civilian engagement and embracing competition; from zero-sum to positive-sum global politics; and from national security to national prosperity and security. It argues the US should invest in sustainable prosperity at home and tools of global engagement to strengthen its influence, compete fairly, and leverage interdependencies to achieve security and prosperity.
A deep early look at how supercomputer security became a prime concern of the Reagan administration - with climate science in the mix.
More context in Andrew Revkin's prize-winning March 1985 Science Digest article on nuclear winter:
https://www.slideshare.net/Revkin/hard-facts-about-nuclear-winter-1985
And Revkin's investigative report on the vanishing of Vladimir Alexandrov, a high-profile Soviet atmospheric scientist who'd become a fan of American cars and cuisine while visiting NCAR, a mountainside supercomputer lab in Colorado:
http://j.mp/alexandrovmissing
Here are emails showing exchanges between Dr. Will Happer, a senior Trump Administration science and security adviser, and the Heartland Institute -- which has long sought to cast doubt on the enormous body of science pointing to rising dangers from human emissions of climate-warming gases.
The emails were released under a Freedom of Information Act request by the Environmental Defense Fund: http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/files/2019/03/Climate-Review-FOIA-CEQ.pdf
Here's an Associated Press story:
https://www.apnews.com/4ec9affd55a345d582a4cc810686137e
EDF provided this copy to Andrew Revkin.
Here's an excerpt from a 2017 interview Revkin did with Happer for ProPublica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSpL5dziylo
A Physicist and Possible Adviser to Trump Describes His Love of Science, and CO2
https://www.propublica.org/article/a-physicist-and-possible-adviser-to-trump-describes-his-love-of-science-co2
More on Happer in National Geographic:
Does the U.S. need a ‘presidential climate security committee’?
A Trump adviser who sees rising CO2 as a good thing wants a panel to review government findings that climate change is a security threat.... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/trump-presidential-climate-security-committee/
This was the document leaked to the press this week ahead of a White House meeting assessing whether President Trump should create a committee to assess conclusions about links between global warming and national security.
Some Globo coverage in 1990 from the trial of the Alves family members and associates charged with the assassination of Chico Mendes in December 1988, including an interview with Andrew Revkin, who'd just published The Burning Season, a book chronicling Mendes's life, death and legacy. More: http://bit.ly/revkinmendes
- The author returns to Raiatea island in French Polynesia 10 years after initially visiting as a student to study the culture. He is interested in checking in on the Teihotaata family who had welcomed him into their home previously.
- When he arrives, he sees changes that have come to Raiatea in the last 10 years including the introduction of phones, more development, and tourism. However, the village of Feruna where the Teihotaata family lives remains relatively unchanged.
- He meets up with Turo Teihotaata, now 47 years old, who he had stayed with previously. Turo's family has grown significantly in the last 10 years but their way of life
This cover story on climate change by Andrew Revkin was published in Discover Magazine in October, 1988. For more on the article visit this Dot Earth post: 1988-2008: Climate Then and Now http://nyti.ms/WIvLbH via @dotearth
Make sure to click to the last page, which was the back-cover advertisement that month - for cigarettes.
Shows things can change, sometimes slowly.
And read Andy's reflection on lessons learned in 30 years of climate coverage:
http://j.mp/revkin30yearsclimate
Enhancing LPG Use During Pregnancya collaboration between KEM Health Research Center, Sri Ramachanda University, and University of California, Berkeley
An explanatory presentation provided to ProPublica.org
Lewis Reznik, who spent his adult life as a dentist in Westchester County, New York, had a very different adolescence - on the run between Nazis and Russian troops in Poland as the Holocaust unfolded. This is is remarkable memoir. Lew died in 2013.
I edited the manuscript and helped Lew publish the book.
Please purchase a copy at j.mp/boysholocaust
Share and discuss the book on Facebook: j.mp/boysholocaustFB
Context:
"Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria: Where Do Responsibilities End?" Journal of Business Ethics, 2015
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-014-2142-7
Shell's plans for Nigeria (SPDC subsidiary), 2013: http://www.shell.com/media/news-and-media-releases/2013/spdc-sets-out-its-future-intent-for-nigeria.html
Business & Human Rights Resource Center on two landmark lawsuits:
https://business-humanrights.org/en/shell-lawsuit-re-nigeria-kiobel-wiwa
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Andrew Revkin's 1994 profile of the masterful luthier Linda Manzer. Blending spruce, sweat and sawdust, Linda Manzer builds guitars that
dazzle.
Photos by Peter Sibbald https://petersibbald.visura.co
Linda Manzer:
https://manzer.com
Andy Revkin:
http://j.mp/revkinlinks
In 1985, my editor, Scott DeGarmo, asked me to write a cover story on the future of the automobile - when the future was the Ford Taurus. It's now kind of a museum artifact and I hope you enjoy it and offer feedback.
This is the core of a webinar Andy Revkin conducted with folks at Columbia Climate School to explore how scientists, scholars and others seeking to craft a better human journey can make the most of Twitter even as Elon Musk's purchase disrupts things. We also talked about alternatives, none of which Revkin sees as remotely competing with the capacities Twitter offers for a long time. (It took a decade of relentless programming, regulatory and other work to build the Twitter we know.)
Subscribe to Revkin's Sustain What newsletter and webcasts to engage and drive the conversation further:
https://revkin.substack.com/subscribe #socialmedia #sustainability #climate
This is a fantastic case study and overview showing how businesses can prepare for the hazards around them to cut the scope of impacts - preventing a natural hazard from becoming an unnatural disaster.
It centers on the experience and work of Parsons Manufacturing, a company that suffered a direct hit from an EF-4 tornado in 2004 but avoided any deaths.
Learn more at the company website:
https://www.parsonscompany.com/about/
A #COP26 presentation by Zainab Usman of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Katie Auth of Energy for Development, building on this paper: September 28, 2021
REFRAMING CLIMATE JUSTICE FOR DEVELOPMENT: SIX PRINCIPLES FOR SUPPORTING INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE ENERGY TRANSITIONS IN LOW-EMITTING ENERGY-POOR AFRICAN COUNTRIES
By Mimi Alemayehou, Katie Auth, Murefu Barasa, Morgan Bazilian, Brad Handler, Uzo Iweala, Todd Moss, Rose Mutiso, Zainab Usman
Advancing inclusive and equitable energy transitions is one of this century’s most vital global challenges, and one in which development finance will play a crucial role. References to justice and equity are widespread in international climate policy, and are increasingly being used by development organizations to guide their own work, including support for energy transitions.
But prevailing definitions of climate justice rarely fully capture the priorities, challenges and perspectives of low-emitting energy-poor countries, the vast majority of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. When applied to development policy, this gap risks prioritizing near-term emissions reductions over broader support for economic development and energy transformation, with comparatively little climate benefit. This could severely hinder poverty alleviation, development, and climate resilience — the very opposite of justice. We need energy transitions that are truly ‘just and inclusive.’ What does this mean for development funders and financiers, and how should it drive their approach to supporting energy transitions in the lowest-income countries?
Rene Dubos was a masterful biologist, Pulitzer-winning essayist and humanist. Read the story behind this essay in Andy Revkin's homage to Dubos here: http://j.mp/despairingoptimist
This is a summary of the three-week international survey of the vaquita refuge in heavily fished waters of the northern Gulf of California of the coast of Mexico's Baja California state. It shows what can be accomplished with a fresh effort in the fall of 2021.
The expedition included scientists and conservationists from Mexico, the United States and Canada.
This chapter on climate change as news, by Andrew Revkin is from "Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren" - edited by Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman
MIT Press 2007, updated edition, 2014
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=xsxkAlEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=xsxkAlEAAAAJ:edDO8Oi4QzsC
Alice Bell's new book on the history of climate change knowledge and inaction is fantastic. Some have missed what is NOT in the CIA's 1974 assessment of climate change and security risk. There's no mention of global warming from carbon dioxide. Here's a Guardian excerpt from Alice's book: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored
Here's the original CIA document without text recognition: https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=725433
The strategic narrative outlines five key shifts: from control to credible influence in an open system; from containment to sustainment and domestic focus; from deterrence and defense to civilian engagement and embracing competition; from zero-sum to positive-sum global politics; and from national security to national prosperity and security. It argues the US should invest in sustainable prosperity at home and tools of global engagement to strengthen its influence, compete fairly, and leverage interdependencies to achieve security and prosperity.
A deep early look at how supercomputer security became a prime concern of the Reagan administration - with climate science in the mix.
More context in Andrew Revkin's prize-winning March 1985 Science Digest article on nuclear winter:
https://www.slideshare.net/Revkin/hard-facts-about-nuclear-winter-1985
And Revkin's investigative report on the vanishing of Vladimir Alexandrov, a high-profile Soviet atmospheric scientist who'd become a fan of American cars and cuisine while visiting NCAR, a mountainside supercomputer lab in Colorado:
http://j.mp/alexandrovmissing
Here are emails showing exchanges between Dr. Will Happer, a senior Trump Administration science and security adviser, and the Heartland Institute -- which has long sought to cast doubt on the enormous body of science pointing to rising dangers from human emissions of climate-warming gases.
The emails were released under a Freedom of Information Act request by the Environmental Defense Fund: http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/files/2019/03/Climate-Review-FOIA-CEQ.pdf
Here's an Associated Press story:
https://www.apnews.com/4ec9affd55a345d582a4cc810686137e
EDF provided this copy to Andrew Revkin.
Here's an excerpt from a 2017 interview Revkin did with Happer for ProPublica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSpL5dziylo
A Physicist and Possible Adviser to Trump Describes His Love of Science, and CO2
https://www.propublica.org/article/a-physicist-and-possible-adviser-to-trump-describes-his-love-of-science-co2
More on Happer in National Geographic:
Does the U.S. need a ‘presidential climate security committee’?
A Trump adviser who sees rising CO2 as a good thing wants a panel to review government findings that climate change is a security threat.... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/trump-presidential-climate-security-committee/
This was the document leaked to the press this week ahead of a White House meeting assessing whether President Trump should create a committee to assess conclusions about links between global warming and national security.
Some Globo coverage in 1990 from the trial of the Alves family members and associates charged with the assassination of Chico Mendes in December 1988, including an interview with Andrew Revkin, who'd just published The Burning Season, a book chronicling Mendes's life, death and legacy. More: http://bit.ly/revkinmendes
- The author returns to Raiatea island in French Polynesia 10 years after initially visiting as a student to study the culture. He is interested in checking in on the Teihotaata family who had welcomed him into their home previously.
- When he arrives, he sees changes that have come to Raiatea in the last 10 years including the introduction of phones, more development, and tourism. However, the village of Feruna where the Teihotaata family lives remains relatively unchanged.
- He meets up with Turo Teihotaata, now 47 years old, who he had stayed with previously. Turo's family has grown significantly in the last 10 years but their way of life
This cover story on climate change by Andrew Revkin was published in Discover Magazine in October, 1988. For more on the article visit this Dot Earth post: 1988-2008: Climate Then and Now http://nyti.ms/WIvLbH via @dotearth
Make sure to click to the last page, which was the back-cover advertisement that month - for cigarettes.
Shows things can change, sometimes slowly.
And read Andy's reflection on lessons learned in 30 years of climate coverage:
http://j.mp/revkin30yearsclimate
Enhancing LPG Use During Pregnancya collaboration between KEM Health Research Center, Sri Ramachanda University, and University of California, Berkeley
An explanatory presentation provided to ProPublica.org
Lewis Reznik, who spent his adult life as a dentist in Westchester County, New York, had a very different adolescence - on the run between Nazis and Russian troops in Poland as the Holocaust unfolded. This is is remarkable memoir. Lew died in 2013.
I edited the manuscript and helped Lew publish the book.
Please purchase a copy at j.mp/boysholocaust
Share and discuss the book on Facebook: j.mp/boysholocaustFB
Context:
"Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria: Where Do Responsibilities End?" Journal of Business Ethics, 2015
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-014-2142-7
Shell's plans for Nigeria (SPDC subsidiary), 2013: http://www.shell.com/media/news-and-media-releases/2013/spdc-sets-out-its-future-intent-for-nigeria.html
Business & Human Rights Resource Center on two landmark lawsuits:
https://business-humanrights.org/en/shell-lawsuit-re-nigeria-kiobel-wiwa
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Andy Revkin's Songwriting Side
1. The Path to “A Very Fine Line”
For three decades, my core occupation has been conveying stories about the
environment and other subjects through journalism, books and blogging. But there
are some subjects, situations and feelings that just cry out to
be sung instead of typed. That fact has led me back to one of
my first loves – music. “A Very Fine Line,” a collection of 10 of
my songs, was recorded and mixed from February through
September, 2013, in the Beacon, New York, studio of Joe
Johnson, with contributions from a batch of brilliantly
musical friends, including the songwriter Dar Williams,
mandolin wizard Mike Marshall and virtuoso fiddler Bruce
Molsky. You can learn about all of the contributing musicians
below.
My musical journey began with my parents, who both
enjoyed singing informally – mainly folk songs and sea songs
they learned through their shared love of sailing and my dad’s time in the Merchant
Marine. My father’s baritone rendition of the Banana Boat Song – “…come mister
tallyman, tally me bananas…” – echoes in my mind as I type this.
Another influence was geography. I grew up in Rhode Island, a bastion of folk music
and the blues. While in high school, my brother and I began learning guitar, at first
sharing my mother’s nylon-stringed instrument. I instinctively (if unwisely) played
the guitar upside down, creating my own
chord fingerings by placing whatever
fingertips felt best on the locations
indicated by the black dots in a chord
book.
Jamming with my brother, Jim, in the early 1970s
And of course there was radio. I came of
age in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s,
when you could listen to WPRO and hear,
in the span of an hour, everything from
Dylan and the Beatles to the Four Seasons
and Herb Alpert. This album has traces of
all those sounds and styles.
At 17, I bought my first guitar. It was in pieces – an old acoustic that was sitting half
mummified in crumbling masking tape in the corner of a music store in Halifax,
Nova Scotia. (I was visiting that city as a high school junior traveling with a friend’s
family to a youth sailing competition.) The guitar looked like it had been through a
bar fight, but I could see it was a Gibson, so I swooped.
2. At first, the shop owner said it wasn’t for sale. But then,
perhaps realizing he had a lot of work ahead of him to
restore it, he sold it to me for $35. When I got home, my dad,
a practical and thrifty man, didn’t hide his anger. How could I
pay $35 for a broken guitar? If I didn’t fix it by summer’s end,
he said, he would throw it away.
Me and my Gibson, 1998
I buckled down in his wood shop and fixed it, replacing a
shredded side with thin mahogany plywood that I steamed
into shape. I still have that beaten, bruised, but booming
1949 sunburst Southern Jumbo (yes, and a few others now).
I quickly learned basic mandolin and banjo, as well. I made my first “serious” money
as a musician (up to $100 a day!) busking in Newport during the Bicentennial
celebrations of 1976 with my friend Mike Bonaiuto, who had an attention-grabbing
hammered dulcimer. Then journalism took over for the most part.
In the early 1990’s, going through a rough patch, I began writing and performing
songs – about everything from piles of
bills to an epic fight with a bigmouth
bass, and of course love and loss. But I
never got around to recording seriously
until now. I was spurred in part by a
2011 stroke – a very lucky stroke in my
case – that for about a month deprived
me of the use of my right hand (playing
left handed, that’s the one that does
much of the work).
Performing in a WPLN songwriter showcase at
Nashville's famed Bluebird Café in 1997
As the title song of this album goes,
“Most of your life you spend walking a
very fine line.” I didn’t want to waste any more time.
3. Life is a Band
I was mainly a solo performer from high school on
beyond college, but shifted increasingly to playing
with other musicians, particularly after moving from
Brooklyn to the Hudson Highlands north of New
York City in 1991. It’d be hard to live in this region
and not play with others, given that the others
include Pete Seeger and the galaxy of talented
singers and players for whom he has been a
lodestone. You can get a taste of this scene on the
first Friday evening of any month on the Beacon
waterfront at the Beacon Sloop Club. Pete wrote out
the musical notation for “A Very Fine Line” for me
after he first heard that tune at the club years ago.
Click this link to see his scribbled ideas for some
Playing with David Bernz and Pete
suggested tweaks to “Arlington,” my song about the
Seeger, Beacon Strawberry Festival.
uncertain future of the national cemetery. From this
same musical circle came David Bernz, a longtime Seeger accompanist who recently
produced two of the folk singer’s Grammy-winning albums. David offered valuable
ideas on several of my tunes. More important, he introduced me to Lisa Mechaley in
1993. We married not long afterward, and this album is dedicated to her.
In the early 2000’s, when I was commuting to The New York Times regularly on the
Hudson line, I got to know several musicians frequenting the Garrison train
platform. Peter Rundquist, a great guitarist and blues singer, was a jingle composer.
Jerry Krenach, who’d drummed
with the likes of Lou Reed and
Chris Whitley, was a music
arranger, producer and
supervisor. Art Labriola, a
piano virtuoso, was scoring
films. We all craved twangy
delta blues and country tunes
and began regularly jamming
and then performing what we
Playing with Uncle Wade at Philipstown.info in Cold Spring, N.Y. ended up calling “simple music
for complicated times.” Our band was called Uncle Wade, after the stage name of
Wade Ward, a frailing banjo player. (We never played any of his music as a band; we
just liked his name.)
The rule of thumb was that we’d each mainly play the instrument we were least
good at. For me that was mandolin and screechy fiddle. Soon we were joined by Al
Hemberger, a bass player, songwriter and owner of a reknowned Bronxville studio,
4. The Loft. Our favorite gig was playing each June on the Hudson River Sloop
Clearwater during the Clearwater Festival. You can see and hear us here and here.
Click here for a show we did in the cozy back room of Philipstown.info, a
homegrown newspaper. Uncle Wade is no more, but the mixes of “Bills, Bills, Bills”
and “Arlington” on the album are built around a couple of Uncle Wade recording
sessions. “Black Bird,” my song about a miner’s death, was inspired by the true story
of the untimely death of Jerry Krenach’s great grandfather.
I sing “Between the River and the Rails” with the
Guinan's musical gang in 2009. (Journal-News photo)
Another influence on the texture of this
album was the monthly musical
gatherings at Guinan’s, a family-run
store and vest-pocket pub that graced
the Garrison waterfront for many
decades but is now a memory. You can
learn about Guinan’s in “Little Chapel on
the River,” a fine book by my friend
Gwendolyn Bounds.
The sessions there ranged from ragged
to remarkable, but were always profoundly musical and heartfelt. They were mostly
led by Jack McAndrew, an accountant by day but an earnest and passionate lover of
Irish tunes on those Thursday evenings. His inconsistent tempos were more than
compensated for by his spirit and smile. Like Jim and John Guinan, the father and
son who were the cornerstones of the place, Jack has passed on. My song “Between
the River and the Rails” is dedicated to these three fine souls.
The Songs and Musicians
A Very Fine Line, a song about life’s close calls, features Joe Johnson, who’s much
more than a mix master, on electric guitar (the
whimsical slide licks were recorded on George
Harrison’s birthday). Joe has a great ear for the right
note at the right time, whether tweaking tracks or
playing his own guitar lines. Al Hemberger played
bass and Eric Starr is on drums. Harmonies are by
my friends from Motherlode Trio – Stacy Labriola,
Patti Pelican and Terry Textor Platz. I play guitar.
This song and three others derive their energy in
large part from the keyboard tracks contributed by
Joel Diamond, a composer and longtime session
player who was introduced to me by Joe Johnson.
There’s a fun short film about him by Anne Trauben.
5. Arlington, my ballad about the fabled past and uncertain future of the national
cemetery, features Dar Williams as guest vocalist,
Ben Neill on trumpet and Motherlode Trio on
harmonies. Also playing are Art Labriola on piano
and organ, Mark Murphy on upright bass, Jerry
Krenach on drums and Peter Rundquist on guitar. I
play guitar and banjo.
Blame it On Biology became something of a tribute to Herb Alpert after Ben Neill
started experimenting with some fun trumpet lines. Also playing: Joel
Diamond on keyboards, Joe Johnson guitar, Eric Starr on drums, Mark
Murphy on upright bass. Motherlode Trio and Al Hemberger sing
harmonies. I play guitar. Ben, best known for his pioneering digital
“mutantrumpet” compositions, can play with simple grace, too. Listen
closely to Arlington when I sing “bugles blow.” Thanks to Ben, it feels
like you’re standing in the misty hills there.
Breakneck Ridge is my ode to the Hudson Highlands, featuring master pipe maker
(and player) Seth Gallagher on uilleann pipes, Steve
Kent on bansuri flute, Al Hemberger on bass, Joe
Johnson on guitar and synthesizer, Eric Starr on drums
and Al Hemberger and Motherlode on harmonies. I play
guitar, mandolin, banjo and fiddle. There are a couple of
magical notes in the “breakdown” section that, to me,
have all the growl and bend of a great rock guitar riff.
Black Bird, inspired by a true mining tragedy, was initially recorded by Joe Johnson
as a solo live performance by me at a Cold Spring
songwriters’ circle, with Ken Veltz providing
light percussion on cajon. I invited the great
fiddler Bruce Molsky and bassist Mark Murphy
to enrich this recording in the studio. I hope you
don’t mind having a live performance with
studio tracks added after the fact.
I pledge we’ll do this tune live together soon!
6. Grandpa’s Cadillac, a celebration of an amazing car, features Joe Johnson on
electric guitar, Art Labriola on pedal steel guitar and Joel
Diamond on keyboards. Also playing are Al Hemberger on bass,
the versatile Eric Starr on drums and yours truly on guitar. In
this photo, Eric is working out his part on Breakneck Ridge. You
can check out his jazz side here.
Bills Bills Bills features Art Labriola on dobro, with Peter Rundquist on guitar,
Mark Murphy on bass and Jerry Krenach on drums.
Al Hemberger and Peter Rundquist sing
harmonies. I play mandolin and guitar. This was a
standard tune from our days in Uncle Wade and
was in part recorded in a kitchen session by Joe
Johnson several years before this full recording
was completed. Every time I hear it, I miss that
band.
A rare Uncle Wade New York City gig.
Liberated Carbon, a three-minute history of humanity’s energy choices, features
Joe Johnson on electric guitar and Joel Diamond on
keyboards. Also playing are Al Hemberger on bass and
Ted Hemberger on drums. Al Hemberger and Motherlode
provide harmonies. I play guitar. Terry, Patti and Stacy
really brought this song, and five others, to life.
Between the River and the Rails, recalling the splendors of a bygone Irish pub,
features Steve Kent on penny
whistle, Bruce Molsky on
fiddle, Seth Gallagher on
uilleann pipes and the climate
scientist Raymond
Pierrehumbert on accordion.
Joe Johnson added guitar and
keyboards. Al Hemberger
played bass and Eric Starr drums. The grand chorus is Motherlode Trio along with
Al Hemberger, Russ Cusick and the singer-songwriter Derek A. Dempsey. I play
guitar, mandolin and banjo. That green neon shamrock still glows in a lot of people’s
memories.
7. Song for Lisa features the amazing Mike Marshall on mandolin and Mark Murphy
on upright bass, with yours truly on guitar and Eric Starr
on drums. I met Mike in 2008, when we both attended a
meeting in Woods Hole, Mass., on the role of the Internet
in fostering global progress. I brought my guitar of
course and he ended up joining me, with hardly a warmup, on this instrumental.
I explored various options for mastering the album,
considering engineers from Los Angeles to Nashville,
but kept things local in the end after I found Matthew
Agoglia, a talented émigré to Beacon from New York
City and the major-league outfit Masterdisk.
Gratitude: This album owes much to Joe Johnson, who worked with me from
February through September on every sonic detail, and also to each of the musicians
above. Many gentle listeners helped me refine these
songs and productions, including Pete Seeger, David
Bernz, David Bayer, Dean Friedman, Steve Gillette,
Cindy Mangsen, Vince Bell, Susan Werner and Leo Sacks
– and my patient wife, Lisa Mechaley. Any remaining
warts and glitches are my doing. I snapped this picture
when Joe and I wrapped the final tweak on the last
song. That’s a wrap – for now.
- Andy Revkin, Garrison, New York, October, 2013