Studio maintenance and installation
Jeff Redefer began his career in audio production at the age of 9 with his first guitar lessons. During the 1970s Jeff’s sound career started in earnest working with RCA recording artists Pure Prairie League as a sound engineer. Jeff toured with the group for 5 years, during which he also had the opportunity to work with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Amazing Rhythm Aces, Earl Scruggs Review, Aztec Two Step, Jonathan Edwards, Nancy Wilson, Robert Kline, Firefall, Pablo Cruise, Jerry Jeff Walker, David Alan Coe, Leon Redbone, Vassar Clements, America, Steve Goodman, Dicky Betts and John Hammond among others.
To be honest, something’s on my mind as I write this. My weekend plans.
Within the next few days, I’m going to a show at The Black Sheep, seeing live music at Axe and the Oak during a Kentucky Derby party and more music at Front Range Barbecue.
A note from “future me”: It was a good weekend.
It sounds like a surreal dream from another time to say that live music can be part of my plans again. It’s just so exciting that there are this many options around town again.
And it seems like there’s going to be more options, like a brand-new blues festival in Colorado Springs.
Janiva Magness will headline Octoberâs Blues on the Mesa, featuring Grammy winner Alvin Youngblood Hart and others. Paul Moore
Amy Whitesell and her husband George have been staples of the Colorado Springs blues community for nearly two decades. In 2003, Amy was one of the founders of the nonprofit
Pikes Peak Blues Community, which supports blues and American roots music along the Front Range. In 2006, she parted ways with them to start her own company with George, and thatâs when
A Music Company Inc. was born.
Since then, theyâve brought in tons of national touring blues artists such as
Few things are as dependable as a
Dinosaur Jr. record. The band’s post-punk/pre-grunge attack has barely evolved in over thirty years, but that’s been to the trio’s advantage, developing into a signature sound. (An influential one, too – how many bands do you remember trying to imitate Dino Jr. in the late eighties and early nineties?) Whether natural or self-imposed, the band’s limitations – leader
J Mascis’ seemingly lackadaisical vocals and derivative soloing, drummer
Murph’s perfectly functional but unimaginative drumming, bassist
Lou Barlow’s songs sometimes sounding like they’re from a different band entirely – end up being advantages, giving the group a sonic stamp unmistakable for anyone else. It also means that whole-scale overhauls are unlikely, if not impossible, which means the band has spent its career refining its approach, rather than changing it.
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