Hi Folks -
A quick update on our musical adventures…
We have a new free web single available to stream or download. Penny wrote and arranged this tune and it was featured on her 1988 album "Often Running". This is a new instrumental version based on her original arrangement. The lyrics (not heard here) are a biting commentary on Reagan's Iran Contra war (e.g. "For every child in the barrio, a pound of pain in lethal aid, from our unholy crusade."). Here, we focus on the musical brilliance and beauty behind "Smoke on the Land”.
This Sunday (October 18, 2015) will be our last Slide Man Slim & Penny Hanna gig of the season, closing out our annual summer stint at the Seascape Village Certified Farmers Market in Aptos, CA. We always have a great time playing there and, well, the more the merrier, so please stop by if you’re in the area and shop, dine, and/or just hang and enjoy the music. The fun goes from 11am to 2pm and details are here.
This winter we hope to finish off a few more tunes that we’ve been working on in the studio and maybe even release a new album next summer (if life doesn’t get in the way too much). It’s what I call a soft goal — don’t want to rush it or anything (our last album was released in 2007).
For your amusement, check out our newish website — lots more music and commentary sprinkled around these pages: SlimAndPenny.com
Finally, on behalf of Penny and myself, please have a wonderful autumn!
- Slim.
Friday, October 16, 2015
Thursday, May 21, 2015
New Website! New Recording! Summer Dates!
Hi Folks -
Hope this finds you all happy and well!
As we pull into the summer months, we have a few things to announce:
We finally had the opportunity this winter to spend some quality time in the project studio and will be posting the results on our new website as we finalize the mixes, with some or all of these cuts possibly ending up on a new album some day (hope that's vague enough). First up is one of Slim's tunes "When I Am Dreaming". Not going to say much about this cut other than we haven't recorded with this particular vocalist in a very long time (circa 1980).
Memorial Day weekend is upon us and, as usual, it marks the beginning of our weekend apperances at Seacliff State Beach (Saturdays 12 - 2pm) and the Seascape Village Certified Farmers Market (Sundays 11am - 2pm). Details are here: slimandpenny.com/web/schedule
Yes, we have a glorious new website with all new content including three multimedia stories about how we stumbled our way to non-fame and non-fortune while enjoying ourselves immensely every step of the way (see the "about" pages). Note that PennyHanna.com and SlideManSlim.com now both redirect to the new site:
SlimAndPenny.com
Enjoy!
Penny & Slim
Hope this finds you all happy and well!
As we pull into the summer months, we have a few things to announce:
We finally had the opportunity this winter to spend some quality time in the project studio and will be posting the results on our new website as we finalize the mixes, with some or all of these cuts possibly ending up on a new album some day (hope that's vague enough). First up is one of Slim's tunes "When I Am Dreaming". Not going to say much about this cut other than we haven't recorded with this particular vocalist in a very long time (circa 1980).
Memorial Day weekend is upon us and, as usual, it marks the beginning of our weekend apperances at Seacliff State Beach (Saturdays 12 - 2pm) and the Seascape Village Certified Farmers Market (Sundays 11am - 2pm). Details are here: slimandpenny.com/web/schedule
Yes, we have a glorious new website with all new content including three multimedia stories about how we stumbled our way to non-fame and non-fortune while enjoying ourselves immensely every step of the way (see the "about" pages). Note that PennyHanna.com and SlideManSlim.com now both redirect to the new site:
SlimAndPenny.com
Enjoy!
Penny & Slim
Thursday, May 2, 2013
New Recording, Summer Dates...
Hello Friends -
About a year ago, we recorded an instrumental version of a song Penny wrote in the early 90's called "The Daffodil". Now, we're delighted to present the vocal version of that same tune:
Also, beginning this Memorial Day weekend, we'll be resuming our usual summer schedule of playing weekend afternoons, Saturdays from 12 - 2pm at Seacliff State Beach and Sundays from 11am to 2pm at the Seascape Village Certified Farmer's Market. Details are here.
Hope you're all enjoying springtime as much as we are - our Aptos weather has been gorgeous!
- Slim & Penny
PennyHanna.com
SlideManSlim.com
About a year ago, we recorded an instrumental version of a song Penny wrote in the early 90's called "The Daffodil". Now, we're delighted to present the vocal version of that same tune:
Also, beginning this Memorial Day weekend, we'll be resuming our usual summer schedule of playing weekend afternoons, Saturdays from 12 - 2pm at Seacliff State Beach and Sundays from 11am to 2pm at the Seascape Village Certified Farmer's Market. Details are here.
Hope you're all enjoying springtime as much as we are - our Aptos weather has been gorgeous!
- Slim & Penny
PennyHanna.com
SlideManSlim.com
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Redemption: new version of Shake On It!
Hi Friends -
A short note to let you know we've just posted a brand new version of a tune we originally released in 2009. Over the last few years we became increasingly unexcited by the original so we spent some time this winter on a redo. Finally hearing it now in its new incarnation is very satisfying to us both.
You can listen to it or download it using either the ReverbNation widget below, or directly from our websites. Hope you like it!
Have a safe, happy, and wonderful spring.
- Slim & Penny
Penny Hanna Website
Slide Man Slim Website
A short note to let you know we've just posted a brand new version of a tune we originally released in 2009. Over the last few years we became increasingly unexcited by the original so we spent some time this winter on a redo. Finally hearing it now in its new incarnation is very satisfying to us both.
You can listen to it or download it using either the ReverbNation widget below, or directly from our websites. Hope you like it!
Have a safe, happy, and wonderful spring.
- Slim & Penny
Penny Hanna Website
Slide Man Slim Website
Sunday, April 15, 2012
New Recording: "The Daffodil"
Hi Friends -
Hope this finds all of you well and enjoying life.
To celebrate Spring, we've just finished a mix of a new recording of a Penny Hanna tune from the early 90's. It's called "The Daffodil" and is performed as an instrumental in this incarnation. Slim is on guitar, harmonica, and MIDI/Audio sequencing, Penny on bass, viola da gamba, and MIDI sequencing.
And to celebrate our first upload of 2012, we've created a Reverb Nation page to make it (hopefully) easier for some of you to listen to and download our stuff (now works with iOS devices too). We're continuing to post the old fashioned way as well, on our websites (liner notes, free download, and streaming if your browser supports it).
Here are some links:
"The Daffodil" on Reverb Nation
Slide Man Slim & Penny Hanna Music Page
Slim Sez: This cut was especially fun for me because I got to try out my spanking new Fender Custom Shop Telecaster with Parsons/White B-Bender. If you don't know what that is, suffice it to say that I've been dreaming of playing a guitar like this since 1971 when I first saw Clarence White play with the Byrds. (Thanks to Gene Parsons for the beautiful installation job!)
Happy Spring!
- Penny & Slim
Hope this finds all of you well and enjoying life.
To celebrate Spring, we've just finished a mix of a new recording of a Penny Hanna tune from the early 90's. It's called "The Daffodil" and is performed as an instrumental in this incarnation. Slim is on guitar, harmonica, and MIDI/Audio sequencing, Penny on bass, viola da gamba, and MIDI sequencing.
And to celebrate our first upload of 2012, we've created a Reverb Nation page to make it (hopefully) easier for some of you to listen to and download our stuff (now works with iOS devices too). We're continuing to post the old fashioned way as well, on our websites (liner notes, free download, and streaming if your browser supports it).
Here are some links:
"The Daffodil" on Reverb Nation
Slide Man Slim & Penny Hanna Music Page
Slim Sez: This cut was especially fun for me because I got to try out my spanking new Fender Custom Shop Telecaster with Parsons/White B-Bender. If you don't know what that is, suffice it to say that I've been dreaming of playing a guitar like this since 1971 when I first saw Clarence White play with the Byrds. (Thanks to Gene Parsons for the beautiful installation job!)
Happy Spring!
- Penny & Slim
Monday, May 30, 2011
New video, summer dates...
Hello Friends -
We are resuming our usual summer schedule of playing weekend afternoons, Saturdays from 12 - 2pm at Seacliff State Beach and Sundays from 11am to 2pm at the Seascape Village Certified Farmer's Market. Details are here.
And, we've just posted a studio-cam video of our recent internet single "Buffalo Wings (for Norton)" on YouTube. We do hope you enjoy it....
- Slim & Penny
We are resuming our usual summer schedule of playing weekend afternoons, Saturdays from 12 - 2pm at Seacliff State Beach and Sundays from 11am to 2pm at the Seascape Village Certified Farmer's Market. Details are here.
And, we've just posted a studio-cam video of our recent internet single "Buffalo Wings (for Norton)" on YouTube. We do hope you enjoy it....
- Slim & Penny
Saturday, April 2, 2011
It Must Be Spring
Hi Folks -
Have you not already gotten enough solicitations from self-promoters yet this year? Well, then you're in luck! But for those of you who are already overloaded, we'll keep this short.
Hot off the griddle, or however you cook them, we give you our latest free downloadable internet single "Buffalo Wings (for Norton)" which of course is dedicated to the late harmonica great Norton Buffalo. The final mix was rendered today, listen to it here: slidemanslim.com/music.html
In our previous newsletter (August 2010) we mentioned Bobby Black's wonderful new CD of Hawaiian music "Steel Guitar Paradise" (which we both had the pleasure to play on), but at the time it was not available online. Well, that has changed: cdbaby.com/cd/bobbyblackmusic.
And finally, for those stragglers who don't yet have a copy of the West Coast Jazz Harmonica Summit 2009, you can find out how to get yours here: jazzharmonicasummit.com/
Ok enough, back to that important stuff you were doing....
- Slim & Penny
Hi Folks -
Have you not already gotten enough solicitations from self-promoters yet this year? Well, then you're in luck! But for those of you who are already overloaded, we'll keep this short.
Hot off the griddle, or however you cook them, we give you our latest free downloadable internet single "Buffalo Wings (for Norton)" which of course is dedicated to the late harmonica great Norton Buffalo. The final mix was rendered today, listen to it here: slidemanslim.com/music.html
In our previous newsletter (August 2010) we mentioned Bobby Black's wonderful new CD of Hawaiian music "Steel Guitar Paradise" (which we both had the pleasure to play on), but at the time it was not available online. Well, that has changed: cdbaby.com/cd/bobbyblackmusic.
And finally, for those stragglers who don't yet have a copy of the West Coast Jazz Harmonica Summit 2009, you can find out how to get yours here: jazzharmonicasummit.com/
Ok enough, back to that important stuff you were doing....
- Slim & Penny
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