In Sofia our intrepid host Svetan came forward with the master recording of my first Bulgarian solo event, recorded March 2010– “There Are No Bridges In Folk Songs Because The Peasants Died Building Them” OLD PIANO/DOWN THE DRAIN/MOLE IN THE GROUND/BREAKIN’ THE LAW EVERY DAY/GOIN’ ACROSS THE SEA/BIRTHDAY SONG/PILE UP ALL ARCHITECTURE/SONG OF QUESTIONS/SONG OF

Happy with the results of our recording session, a trio consisting of me, Schroeder and Ekkehard convened at our friend Paul’s record store in Stuttgart to record RECORD STORE DAY a live in store set that is quite typical of the sets played on the tour: BACK TO STAY/BAREFEET AND HOT PAVEMENT/ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE

In our last week of driving Schroeder and I worked on what would become the MONKEY BAR by the Doc Chad Contemporary Rock Band The CD is named after a venue in Basel where we played an enjoyable trio show. It was a long show with a long encore so after careful deliberation we honed

Working back from MONKEY BAR and RECORD STORE DAY, also available have been these collections: THE MAN WHO TURNED TO CHAD presents the contents of the in house recording session at Schroeder’s studio with Jan engineering. I USED TO BE SOMEBODY/DANDELION/SUPPLIES DWINDLE/SONG FOR WES/PEACEFUL MOMENT/MISPLACED/SCHROEDER BIRTHDAY SONG/PRISONER/SONG FOR ROBERT HARRIS/SONG OF LONGING/WALK THIS WAY Check

In the fall 2015 tour we also recorded two quite different shows, an acoustic set at a cozy Freiburgian haunt and a wild “cowboy” concert in the dim light of a basement Luzern squatted co-op building. I took the material from the studio session and combined it with the best parts of these concerts for

Examples of music by the American branch of the Doc Chad contemprorary rock band are not so prevalent, for one thing we have basically no gigs so recording gigs has been more difficult. Hopefully we can get a studio project with some of the fine North Carolina players associated with this ensemble. LOVE NEVER SAY