Lesser Lights

Hey folks-

We decided on the "Roadkill/ Buttsteak" name for the site because (other than it just rolling off the tongue) most of the musical collaboration amongst our hardy group in recent years has been between Mike and me.   Certainly, this site is not called "Just Keating" for a reason.  Mostly, I think these things are more fun when a few cooks are in the kitchen.  So for a minute there I was concerned that all I had in the hopper were Keating-only covers and re-dos of some originals.  Boy, was I wrong!----

Happily, some "great" audio (and hopefully video) from this spring's inaugural Harpswell Hootenanny and Beer-Slaughterin' is just about ready.  I recently recalled that we have some Buttsteak studio recordings from '09 that have never seen the light of day but which probably need only a little tweaking.  For the brave of heart, there are some classic rock covers done last year by me and my old Iona Prep buddy John Stackpole, not to mention some stuff from me and my man Dillo.  There's the remastering/ de-stanking of the RK-BS archives, so there should be no shortage of goods eventually, even if a new note is not struck for a long while.  And, yeah, there's a big load of stuff I've been putting together in the laboratory on my lonesome.  So no one's gonna be stahvin' Mahvin' ovah heah.

Anyway, first to a Evitts-Keating goody.  This is an updated version of a tune I wrote back in the Wack-Keating Bath, ME days, as a celebration of life in the slow lane.  It's a summer song and I always regarded it as a 4th of July composition, so there you have it:

Lesser Lights:


/ jk