Timothy Gurshin: News

     My new studio album, Wrestling With Dragons, is just about in the final stages of production. Honestly, it's like seeing a ship being built at the Bath Iron Works! Many stages to go through.  Right now, I am predicting a release in January of 2012.

     There will be 10 tracks, recorded in Texas, Tennessee and New Hampshire, featuring some really top musicians.  Every cut is unique and the album plays like an anthology, yet somehow hangs together. I shall keep you posted!  

My hat's off to the the folks in Keene who put in a tremendous effort to make the Keene Music Festival happen! What a great event - all kinds of music, outdoors, on multiple stages, simultaneously! A true music fair. The best part was the audience. Everyone was so positive. I met a lot of very nice people. I suggest you put this event down on your calendar for 2012!

I had the pleasure to play the Towne Crier Cafe's semi-annual invitational open mic night on June 26, 2011.  There were 16 performers, and 2 were selected to play as an opener for a future  headliner show.  Happy to report I was one of those selected! What makes it cool was that the voting was done by my fellow performers. I was really moved, to tell you the truth.  Everyone was creative and expressive, and to be chosen among peers was special.  The audience was great, too! It felt really good to know that my songs were getting across to others.

The Towne Crier is a well known stop for national and international musicians of various styles, particularly those who are acoustic oriented .  I am looking forward to seeing what develops--will keep you posted! 

I was fortunate to have a personal tour of the Santa Cruz guitar factory in Santa Cruz, CA conducted by owner Richard Hoover. They build great guitars with a high degree of hand craft, always doing whatever it takes to optimize the sound to be derived from carefully selected, rare tonewoods. Check out the Santa Cruz site at www.santacruzguitar.com.
On my photo page you'll find a picure of Richard and me discussing my old Gibson. Thank you, Richard!

Thanks to Shawn Henderson of the Stayed Tuned program on WSCA 106.1 FM in Portsmouth, NH, for having me on for an interview and to play some songs! I highly recommend this show, which you can hear over the internet off the WSCA site on Friday afternoons. Shawn plays great Americana music and has featured lots of live, in-studio performances and interviews with a variety of songwriters, including the legendary Eric Andersen, musician/Hollywood actor Jeff Daniels and New England favorite Jon Pousette-Dart--lucky for me, he allowed me to be the first guest for 2011!

I want to thank everyone involved and everyone who came to the 2010 FAMFEST at Black Mountain in Jackson, New Hampshire. A great day of music on the mountain, capped off with an evening set by Rustic Overtones.

I am so excited to announce the trailer to the documentary movie "Mayflowers" can now be seen at the video page of this site. I had the pleasure of writing and performing the theme song for the film, which tells the story of a visit by members of the Chicago 7 to UNH in 1970 - the day after the Kent State shootings. No matter what your political stripes may be, you have to see this blast from the past. With appearances by Abbie Hoffman and William Loeb, you know it's going to be fascinating! I thank award winning director Gary Anderson for allowing me to be involved in the project. It was great fun to write in support of a film - a very different experience. The music is very "Dylanesque" and designed to evoke the times. For more information, go the links page of this site and check out nhmovies.com.

"Getaway #2" from the new live album, Songs Along The Highway, has been sent to hundreds of acoustic oriented radio stations across the country. If you have a favorite station like that in your area, please call'em up and ask them to play the song! It is track number 12 from the Oasis Acoustic Radio Sampler Vol.X, #7.

I am so pleased that Nashville singer Aly Sands has recorded a very cool rendition of my song, "Broken Glass." This song was among a bunch of tracks I started working on in Nashville in the fall of 2008 that have not yet seen the light of day, and I am glad Aly got to this one ! Check it out in the music section of this site.

I've put up a video of an as yet unreleased song called "Three Women" on the video page. It was recorded at the Tupelo Music Hall in Londonderry, New Hampshire. I sort of put this tune on the shelf months ago, but when I reviewed the video, I came back to liking the feel of the music and story. Check it out and let me know what you think!

K&K Sound, a maker of guitar electronics such as I use, featured the new album, Songs Along The Highway, on their company website, www.kksound.com., for several months! They posted a link back to my web site so visitors to their site can hear samples of their products as used in the real world. I really appreciate their support! If you are a guitar gearhead like me, check out their site.

Here is a thematic album of 11 songs recorded live. The acoustic arrangements are simple but effective, supporting the impact of the stories and images delivered by an expressive voice and strong melodies. Each song is like a chapter of a book, describing in unique detail a persistent search for an almost undefinable goal, while looking back and into the future at the same time. The title cut serves an an epilogue, with its images of a family evicted by a conflicted sheriff, a tied-up pony's struggle to be free and the narrator's dream of a canyon sunset that is both beautiful and foreboding, hinting that his apparent impatience and indifference toward others is born of his own desperation to continue the search in the face of limited time. Chances are you will recognize yourself somewhere in the words to these songs, right about the time you start to sing along. This is acoustic songwriting in the best tradition. An excellent choice for a long drive...

At long last, the  live CD, "Songs Along The Highway," is here! A collection of 11 songs, with 10 recorded at gigs and 1 recorded at a rehearsal. This is an acoustic album - mostly just vocal and guitar - with a couple of harmonica solos and some excellent lead guitar on a few songs by Neal Zweig. At the video page, you can hear one of the songs from the album, "Rainy Day." At the music and store pages, you can click a link to hear samples of the songs and buy hard copy CD's and downloads. So how can you get it FREE? Three simple steps: 1) Be a new member on my e-mail list (just go to the e-mail box available on any page of the site and sign up); 2) Come to a gig; 3) Ask me for it! (I look forward to seeing you!)

K&K is a maker of fine electronics products for the amplification of acoustic instruments. I use a K&K pick-up on my main performance guitar. I am very excited that K&K chose me to be the featured February 2009 "artist of the month" on their web site! Thank you, K&K!

You can hear more songs at my site--www.myspacemusic.com/timothygurshin. If you are into the myspace thing, please check it out!