MEBANE, NORTH CAROLINA

Tia is the middle name of an old friend who told me that it came from a Martian cartoon character which I never fully understood. She was beautiful and sharp witted. In the commercial movie below we have edited out my singing and show Eric recording tracks at Duck Kee Studios in Mebane, North Carolina. Our engineer was Jerry Kee.  He was patient, kind, and wise through all the hot summer days we spent there at his studio. Thank you Jerry.  You can see pictures and read more about recording in North Carolina here.

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TALENT, OREGON

This is an announcement for the record titled "You Can if You Want to," which comes out on Halloween 2016. The song excerpted here is called “Cindy.”

TALENT, OREGON

My Russian great grandfather made extra money by secretly breeding his peasant horses with thoroughbreds that Tsar Nicholas kept at a summer palace. A resentful neighbor snitched, and he was in trouble. Fearing execution, Aleksey Musika stowed away on a boat bound for Nova Scotia that sunk mysteriously on the night it was supposed to reach port. Aleksey swam to shore and eventually made his way to Coatesville, PA where he worked in a steel mill and raised his family. I used a song I wrote and recorded on the subject, lots of family home movies my father asked that I digitize, along with some found footage of Russian history, to illustrate my family's history. The story goes from Russia in the early 1900s to Laguna Beach, CA where I was born in the seventies, and returned to in the autumn of 2015 to shoot the footage needed to finish up this work.

TALENT, OREGON

TALENT, OREGON

TALENT, OREGON

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