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I've completed my latest album entitled "Random Images from an Unmarked Box" I thought the title was appropriate because I was working from scraps of lyrics and musical ideas, improvising and putting them together, often without a clear idea of how they would come out. I tried out some things that just didn't seem to work so they were put away for another time. If I improvised something that felt like it worked then I would add a few other instruments, yes, I'm playing everything again on this album. I was greatly inspired by the early recordings of artists like Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, or Bob Dylan were you would generally have guitar and vocals with maybe another guitar or piano but no big productions. I also kept the album to...well, album length. While I appreciate the amount of music you can cram onto a CD I love that you can listen to an album like "Tea for the Tillerman" in one setting and take it all in, so this new one is only 31 minutes. For now you can hear all the tracks at http://www.myspace.com/kevinslick It will soon be available in physical form from CDBaby and through all the outlets like iTunes, Rhapsody, etc.

I've been working on recording some new material and you can hear it on my Myspace page at: http://www.myspace.com/kevinslick I had a pile of song notes and unfinished works so I just took out the scraps of ideas and began to improvise, recording whatever I came up with. I added a few overdubs, or more than a few in the case of "Dancer's Eyes" but otherwise tried to keep things simple and hold on to the feel of improvised music. I plan to keep recording like this through the summer. I welcome any feedback as the songs are kind of works in progress.

I have started recording some new old songs this past week. I had several songs in notebooks that were mostly fragments of ideas. Some actually had music written down but mostly they were just sketches. For several years I thought I would make an album of one or the other groups of these songs, all the break up songs, all the songs about love, all the songs about whatever and there never seemed to be enough of any one subject. So this week I began turning on the mics and having a go at whatever page I opened up to, if there were only a few words I either just sang them or made up more. I recorded first takes pretty much and then began overdubbing in small doses. I've been re-inspired by many of the albums I listened to twenty and thirty years ago that featured vocals and guitar with perhaps a bass or second guitar added in. I'm aiming for that kind of sound, also a spontaneous feel that hopefully will come with the highly improvised style I've been working with. I expect to have several songs ready for listening within the month and more available by summer's end.