Recording: You're Steel on My Mind

Artist: You're Steel on My Mind

Song: Requiem for Tom T. Hall

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Ayal Senior & Friends), July 14, 2024.

You're Steel on My Mind - Requiem for Tom T. Hall

Guest-hosting Ayal Senior's monthly, I decided to exercise the host's prerogative and perform in a set. It seemed natural to invite along series regular Kurt Newman — but rather than engaging in some Parmenides Obtuse-style abstraction, this set was focused on some more song-like spaces. Playing lap steel (and buoyed up by Newman's pedal steel), some folk and country standards were rubbed against — or, in the case of this piece, refracted at a slight remove. An empty bottle, a broken heart, and you're steel on my mind.

You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:

[Kurt Newman will be playing some "Clarence White instrumentals and general bluegrassness" alongside Karsten Stryker in a laid-back, 2-guitar version of The Sorry Brothers at The Tranzac tonight (August 8th). Ayal Senior & Friends will be back at The Tranzac on Sunday (August 11th) with the man himself back in charge and playing with Kurt Newman, alongside sets from David Sait, The Sympathetic String Band, and Nick Flanagan.]