What's Going On At Carltone?
Happy Fourth of July you rebels! Amy and I cover the X classic -- with a little Robert Earl Keen thrown in.
I try to convince Amy that I'm a punk and we play "Another Girl, Another Planet" by The Only Ones.
Amy and I discuss the state of my pandemic hair and play "Is It Like Today" by World Party from their 1993 album Bang!
An ode to being thirteen and in love by an "alternative" southern rock band that's not R.E.M. Happy Valentine's Day.
Here's to a better 2021. Seems like all we really need is a little peace, love, and understanding.
What happens when a suave, ukulele slinging wolf meets a bass playing hooded hottie in the woods all alone?
We've been thinking a lot about escaping lately so when Jerry Jeff Walker passed away this is the first song I played.
It's 1984 and vampiric, new wave crooners are stalking the moon-lit, rain-soaked streets. Happy Halloween!
Amy and I cover the Freedy Johnston hit "Bad Reputation," a splendid slice of 90s adult alternative.
Pray this precipitous reprieve from precipitation persists. Tom Waits' "Cold Water" on a resonator.
Channeling some creepy psychedelia, Amy and I cover the Donovan classic Season of the Witch.
In case you missed the history of the Howl O'Caster, I've put together this album.
The most beautiful song Bob Dylan ever wrote. I'm not sure I know what's going on in it, but it makes me sad.
My friend Allen Dunn's favorite Elvis Costello song or at least that's the way I remember it.
Amy and I cover the Smithereens' classic Blood and Roses. Rest in Peace, Pat DiNizio.
Just me playing Bob Dylan's Nobody 'Cept You live in the dinning room on the 289 tenor scale ukulele.
Amy and I build a fort and play Soul Asylum's 90s hit Without A Trace on a bunch of Carltone ukuleles.
Amy and I cover Mr. Prince Rogers Nelson's I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man. Rest in peace Mr. Nelson.
A copy of me and I play When In Rome's 80s synth-pop classic The Promise on two Brickhouse concert ukuleles.
We are building a new Big Payback Bass, this time in white, but you may never get an opportunity to buy it.
When I saw the white Payback box I had to have it. Now I have to figure out what to do with it.
The undead show up on our deck and play Pet Sematary by the Ramones on a couple of Carltone cigar box ukuleles.
Amy and I cover Nirvana's Heart Shaped Box on a Big Payback bass and a custom tenor scale ukulele.
Friends always bring us cigar boxes. They will call up asking if I want some cigar boxes they have sitting in a corner.
Amy and I cover Tom Wait's Jockey Full of Bourbon on Big Payback bass and a Brickhouse concert scale ukulele.
Carltone cigar box ukuleles will have a booth at pARTy 318. Come by and pick up a Carltone, play a tune, buy one.
Amy and I cover Tears for Fears' Everybody Wants To Rule The World on a Big Payback bass and a prototype.
Amy and I cover David Bowie's Modern Love on a couple of handmade Carltone cigar box ukulele prototypes.
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