Zachary’s Place

I actually want a punk band to add a different flavor to the song…

Last Summer For Boys

If you are in or know a punk band with members in, from or relocating to North Dakota, let me know…

The chord progression is G D into Dsus4 Am

There, I said it…

It was a great decade for music, but the 60’s are over….

21st Century Poet (Click to Listen)

‘I said are you a 20th Century Poet, he said son it’s the 21st Century’
‘I said sir I must be behind the times, he said no cause your standin in front of me’

‘He must of been about 65, had a guitar around his back’
‘He said man if you think I asked, would the 60’s take me back, would the 60’s take me back’

21st Century Folk has arrived…

From an editorial in the local paper:

“Now, let me get this straight: Because President Obama, after a landslide victory one year ago, has not been able to solve the problems and concerns facing our nation — concerns exacerbated by eight years of lies, assaults on our legal system, secret and illegal decimation of our privacy and civil rights “bring it on” wars instead of developing diplomacy and a financial crisis unparalleled since the Great Depression — Americans are supposed to rebel and turn to the Republican Party”

Either/Or

How about a third choice?

Conservative (stop consuming so much)
Progressive (Marriage is between two individuals who love each other)

Conservative (the right to self-defense)
Progressive (you don’t have to be a tree hugger to appreciate nature)

The Progressive Conservative Party (always PC)

Featuring Nate’s father on vocals

A baby cries, while his daddy writes
A song about, him, so let’s begin, let’s begin

Seems like the other day, well her and I were on our way
A New York studio, she started off hills like tan elephants (repeat)

And we left in January, crawlin along that US belly
New York and a northern route, past my family California bound (repeat)

And what is fatherhood, but a cloak that changes a young man’s nerves
So I covered up and thought about that age of innocence (repeat)

And he’ll grow up to be a man, saying catch me if you can
Now leave me alone, I’m leaving home, I’m leaving home (repeat 2x)

And there is no refrain, in the blood of a parent’s veins
So I sing on, without the break of one a those popular songs (repeat)

And Harry well he said it best, too busy to have that catch
And his boy grew up just like him and my boy grows just like me
Can’t you see when he sleeps (repeat)

‘It All Ends With Me’ featuring Henique on Djembe

‘Fargo’ featuring Freyja on Guitar

Great Show. Great Crowd. Great Sunday afternoon…

Get your copy of Nate West’s debut album @ Nomad Cafe:

Nomad Cafe in Oakland, CA where Nate West recorded his debut album — The Old Later (live from Nomad Cafe) is now selling the album.

West’s album illustrates the 21st Century folk recording — live at a café in Oakland, CA. Nate West, the crowd, the café and a guitar. Each song was only sung once with edits coming at the beginning of songs where West tends to get verbose in his storytelling. The days of scratchy basement recordings are over, but technology can still lend itself to those early beginnings through a 21st Century process.

This great partnership represents a new concept for the cafe marketplace and a new platform for 21st Century Folk Music. Live. Unedited. No BS.

I can’t keep coming to convince you, but the songs are there…

No BS, this is 21st Century Folk and I am Nate West:

“The songs are real life…his home, his children, his friend killed in Iraq, Gary Indiana and…Fargo. These are real people and real places expressed in real songs with real emotions.”

High Plains Reader (review of Nate West debut album ‘The Old Later (live from Nomad Cafe)) July 2009

Give Nabrural Folk a chance…