Kevin Slick

This is a collection of writings from my journal on September 11, 2001 and the days following when I was a teacher at PS 116 in Manhattan. 

https://kevinslickpoet.blogspot.com/2014/10/september-journal-2001-new-york-city.html

Actually I never went anywhere, I've never stopped drawing, painting and creating visual art but I haven't shared as much in recent years. The last time I was actively exhibiting visual art was in the early days of Neo Pseudo when we often did combined art and music shows at various galleries in Philadelphia. 

Fast forward to today where I'm still doing music, mainly writing old time fiddle tunes (how does one write new old music?) and showing art work once again. You can find me at the new Shenarts Co-Op on…

I've been writing about music as well as writing music this year.

Here are a few highlights of my writing work (most published in Bluegrass Unlimited) this year.

The Seldom Scene—Remains To Be Scene

Reviewed by Kevin Slick

        How does a band with a legendary status continue to live up to the mythology that inevitably grows and threatens to overshadow any new recording? The legendary Seldom Scene answer the question with their new album that positively glows with the same causal brilliance that has always…

Check out my latest Substack for a brand new song! https://open.substack.com/pub/kevinslick/p/new-song?r=jmfsl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true 

Three of my recent photos were included in this new issue of the great publication No Depression 

It was sometime in the Spring or Summer (memories are fuzzy) of 1988 that Mike Biddison and I first performed together as Neo Pseudo. That makes next year the 37th anniversary so we're celebrating now rather than waiting for a boring anniversary like the 40th. There's been a pile of old video content uploaded https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5574B660D5E7CDF4

There will be some new music uploaded to the streaming sites such as Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/5SxaD11Nj6WUi1KKZ9NhTc?si=FWcOLoc3ST…

Hi friends,

I've started posting my views, reviews and thoughts about the news on Substack. You can find me here.

It's free to subscribe and I'd love it if you did. It's nice to know someone's reading my thoughts, if even to shake their heads and say “What's wrong with him?” 

I recorded an old favorite recently - Comin' Down off the Mountain, which was written by Jon Rounds and a song I've recorded a few times before. This time it's a very bluegrass arrangement and there's a video to go along too. The recording and video were both produced by Dave Richardson, and the video is very much his interpretation of the song which I love. 

I wrote Moon Over Electric Canyon around 40 years ago. For years it was a staple of Neo Pseudo shows, we recorded a version on our first CD and it appears on several live albums as well. I've always told people that it represents my philosophy of life and that's true, it did and still does. 

I recorded a new version this year that showcases how I perform the song these days with some nice production from Dave Richardson. 

You can hear it here: https://open.spotify.com/track/0CD74WWBlRDQPSOGlegfBD?si=56f961bff…

WeI wrote the song “Nothing Left Undone” with Rick Lang a couple of years ago and Orchard Creek Band recorded and released the song in the summer of 2023, almost a year ago. It came out as a single in September 2023 and got some airplay and good reviews. Lately though it has been making a comeback on some bluegrass charts. We managed to make it to #19 last month on the Bluegrass Planet Radio charts! 

Here's a video of us doing the song at Midwinter Bluegrass Festival in Denver this past February.