"Mick Hargreaves "Half As Much" on 22-song "Hank Williams Uncovered" (Paradiddle Records) Released May 12, 2023

On Paradiddle Records.

Jennifer Hargreaves Pawliczak (low harmony)

Chloe Halpin (high harmony)
Mike Bifulco slide lead guitar
Gary Dawson electric guitar (including first half of the solo)
Bass Don Mangels
Drums Chris Mehos
Pete Mancini high-strung acoustic guitar
Mick Hargreaves acoustic guitar, lead vocal, piano, organ

Recorded and mixed by MH at the Lantern Sound Recording Rig

I also recorded and mixed track 3 on disc 2 by the Hoodoo Loungers, and I perform upright bass on Track 1, disc 1 by Pete Mancini.

Here is the entire 22-song release on Apple Music:

NEW MH RELEASE TODAY: See What You Can Make with This

Available on the usual streaming platforms.
Recorded and Mixed by MH at the Lantern Sound Recording Rig
Mastered by G&J Audio

MH - Everything, except: Pete Mancini - Electric Guitars // Chris Mehos - Drums

WATCH: Mick Hargreaves Live on WLIW 88.3-FM with Gianna Volpe Dec 22, 2022 "Heart of The East End" Radio Program

WLIW 88.3-FM is Long Island's only PBS/NPR radio station.

LISTEN: Podcast Archive, Mick Hargreaves on WLIW-FM 88.3 (Southampton NY USA) "Heart of The East End" Radio Program with Gianna Volpe 22 DEC 2022

Here's the archived Apple Music Podcast from December 22, 2022 when I joined Gianna Volpe LIVE in the WLIW-FM 88.3FM (Southampton NY) Studio 51 for a special in-studio performance on the "Heart of The East End" radio program. I played a couple songs live, we chatted a bunch, and then we played my version of Hank Williams "Half As Much" which will appear on the upcoming Hank Williams tribute compilation release in 2023 (Paradiddle Records, Huntington, NY USA).

Happy New Year, Everyone! MH

MH at Main Drag Music, Brooklyn USA

"Crystal Ball" Now On Streaming Services

A lot of people to thank! Credits below.



Written by Joe Delia & Mick Hargreaves
(Slymoon Publishing BMI / Crazy World Ain't It Music BMI)
Words & Music © 2011 All Rights Reserved

Music Video Directed by Mick Hargreaves
Camera & Editing: Jody Gambino for JTiL Productions
SPECIAL GUEST: Joe Delia - Organ

Mick Hargreaves - Vocals, acoustic guitar, 6 & 12 string electric guitars, 6 string bass, harmonicas.
Jennifer Hargreaves-Pawliczak - Vocals
Michael Bifulco - Tremolo Telecaster Guitar (L)
Gary Dawson - Gibson Electric Guitar (R)
Don Mangels - Electric Bass
Chris Mehos - Drums

Produced by Mick Hargreaves @ the Lantern Sound Recording Rig.
Recorded at The Groove Shack & "The Farm". Additional Engineering: Sophia Aley, Austin Ferreira, Richard Anthony Nardo
Mastering: Gene Paul at G&J Audio
Sound Recording © 2017 All rights reserved.

Thanks to: Joe Delia, Buddy Woodward, Kel Microphones, Bryan Gallo, Matty Liot, Chris Mehos, Joel Kerr & Gene Paul at G&J Audio, everyone at WPPB, WEHM, WUSB, WHPB, LI Pulse, the Hargreaves & Schmitz families, all at NYRMA, Stephen Talkhouse, The Hangdogs, Greenlawn Moose Lodge, Rodeo Bar, Ken Guistino/Montauk Sun, Courtney Williams, George Howard, Jody Gambino, Crossroads Music, The Grey Horse Tavern, Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks, The Beat Farmers.

http://www.mickhargreaves.com
http://www.joedelia-thieves.com/
https://www.facebook.com/jody.gambino

New Moon Cafe 26 JUN 2022 photo: B. Moritz

Recent Photos of MH @ Lantern Sound Recording Rig

mh in the studio, March 2021

photo of the day March 8 2021

Photo of The Day March 3 2021

photo of the day March 1 2021

October 2020

Photo of The Day: MH on bass w/ Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks

Playing bass w/ Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks recently, at Greenport Harbor Brewery. (Photo: Bill Callas)

Photo of the week: MH playing organ @LanternSound Recording Rig

Mick recording an organ part for an artist currently
wrapping up their record at the LSRR.

Playing the part of "Crambone", Fred The Dogg!

Photo Time

George Mann & Mick Hargreaves

"Live On The Farm" House Concert
June 9, 2017

Lantern Sound Recording Rig

PHOTO: Fred The Dog Lighting Test

Setting up Lantern Sound Recording Rig studio today for SAT JUN 10 houseconcert featuring George Mann, Mick Hargreaves, DJ JTiL. Fred doesn't like lighting tests.

PHOTO: Main recording room setup Monday Sept. 19.

For the Anthony Maragni recording sessions.

http://www.lanternsoundrecordingrig.com

PHOTO: Mick playing the Lakland Duck Dunn P-Bass

In the recording studio at LSRR this past week, working on the Anthony Maragni recording sessions.

CD Review by Doc Blues

 

"Best" Mick Hargreaves (2013)

 

Long Islander Mick Hargreaves is a musical experience. A songwriter of taste who can smith words and a bandleader known far and wide from his East end roost, Mick pours out originality and style with a familiar 60's rock viewpoint and a bit of a country lilt.

As you listen, you’ll hear Nick Lowe Brit-pop new wave and its predecessors like Herman’s Hermits and Loving Spoonful, Beatles and even Simon & Garfunkel influencing, flowing and drving through 17 cuts of fine tune.

Hargreaves’ work focuses on the songs with catchy lyrics, catchy riffs and danceable groove so he is accessible on a variety of levels. Mick also has a strong sense of place. Long Island flows through his veins both as a place, an idea and from a music influence or origination viewpoint. Hargreaves does LI proud and follows in the footsteps of such artists as Barnaby Bye, Ellie Greenwich, William Joel, et al.

Great tunes are great tunes especially when they are joined by fine musicianship and an excellent disk.

"Doc Blues"  (Mark Gresser)

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"Best" at iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/best/id641760944
"Best" CD at CD Baby: http://www.cdbaby.com/artist/MickHargreaves
"Best" CD via mail order: http://mickhargreaves.com/album/best-17-song-cd

Lantern Sound Adds Ampex 601 Mic Pre's

Hi everyone... Skip English, very constantly opinionated user of recording gear here.

Mick Hargreaves' Lantern Sound Recording Rig has officially added two late 1950's Ampex 601 tube microphone preamps to its arsenal.

These have already been modded for "modern recording", meaning they now sport a) input transformers so they work with modern low impedance microphones, and b) balanced input/output connections and added unbalanced DI jacks. You can see the added DI jacks in the photo, between the mic / line level knobs.

Not only is the 601 the preamp used by T-Bone Burnett (as part of the complete Ampex 601 mono tape recorder rig) to record John Mellencamp's recent one-microphone outing "No Better Than This"... but these two are also the exact preamps used to record the vocal, acoustic and bass guitars for Mick's "Can't Keep Track of You Blues" (paired with an RCA Velocity Junior Ribbon Mic at Buddy Woodward's Spatula Ranch), AND they'll be all over Mick's upcoming "Redemption Center II" release, currently in the mixing phase.


So far, I love these things for mic'd bass cabinets, DI bass, kick and snare, and any and all guitar amp cabinets. There's definitely a built-in compression characteristic - I've noticed that with level properly set, a mic'd guitar amp will make the needle rise slightly into the red, and there it will pretty much STAY. I rarely turn these up past 2-3 for dynamic mics, 4-5 for ribbons. And as Karen Carpenter used to sing... we've only just begun.

The super-cool website "Fix That Mix" has this to say about the 601:

"The Ampex 601 takes some of the best features from other Ampexes: the microphone input transformer from the 351, the EF86* based mic input section similar to the MX-35 (followed by a 12AY7 and a 12AU7 cathode follower - some of the most favored circuits among tube heads,) and the classic Ampex build quality. With... modifications, they are quiet, gorgeous sounding, versatile, mic/line/instrument preamps that look almost as good as they sound."

Others use phrases such as "slow rise time", "clean and airy", "great presence", and "real nice open tone" to describe the 601's. All I know is these things sound friggin' GREAT.

Find out for yourself: Contact Mick using the usual channels; or, if you know what's good for you, you'll consider seeing Mick & The King Guys when they have their NYC debut at the Rodeo Bar on Saturday April 14th 2012.

Skip English - Contributor

Major Glitches, Everywhere...

The original cover art for Chris Butler's "The Devil Glitch"
Full details at http://www.majorglitch.net

Being alive to finish things feels good, especially in light of the life-sized Major Glitch that my summer/fall of 2011 wound up being. But that was then. Fast forwarding to NOW, two musical "Major Glitches" (plus an accompanying film) are done and being mastered, and will soon see the light of day at majorglitch.net.

Begun in 2008, Chris Butler's web-based, crowd-sourced "Major Glitch" expands on his original 69-minute "Devil Glitch", which was released in 1996 then certified "World's Longest Recorded Pop Song" by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1997.

The two new segments were recorded with the Lantern Sound Recording Rig (LSRR), one featuring Jim Turner in a stompin' wood-cabin send-up (complete with Harp-Tar and Electronic Tennis Racquet instruments), while the segment from yours truly will be a rock-pop freak-out with an accompanying film. We're confident that these additions will push the total "Glitch Length" to over three hours. No release dates have been pegged yet. The moment it's known, we'll send up a flare. Soon.

Listen to any/all the existing segments, and get info on how to add your piece at majorglitch.net. There's also a 2008 interview with Chris about The Major Glitch at NJ dot com.

We now return you to our previously scheduled program, titled "Mick Gets Back to Finishing His Next Solo Record".

And, darn it, I just Lost The Game. Sorry.

SAT 7/30/11 Hargreaves, McLary & Friends in Midsummer Night's HOOT, Grey Horse Tavern

Facebook Invite Page for 7/30 Grey Horse Tavern

The New York Roots Music Association (NYRMA) presents a night of down-home, rabble-rousing acoustic and electric music in a MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S HOOT, July 30th 2011, 9:30pm, at the Grey Horse Tavern in Bayport NY, featuring MICK HARGREAVES (Los Blaggards, Caroline Doctorow, Hangdogs), and JEFF McLARY (LI Hornets) with their backing bands. Expect some NYRMA friends to join in the performance. Admission is 5 bucks, leaving more cake to spend on the GHT's great beer & wine selection, and if you like, menu choices culled from local and organic food sources. Relax by the tracks, baby.

PHOTO: Electric Bass Guitar Arsenal

Back in October 210, I obsessed in a blog entry about getting the right strings for each of my basses. This post updates that one slightly, detailing modifications to two of these four "weapons":

Basses L to R: Jazz, Jaguar, "Duck" Dunn, Precision

Fender 2006 MIM Jazz Bass - This "Midnight Wine" bass now has round-wound strings, Dean Markley Blue Steel .45-.105 medium light gauge. If I'm going to have only one bass with roundwounds, it should be the J-Bass, to take advantage of all the tonal variety it offers. Used extensively on stage with Los Blaggards, is basically a recording bass now.

Fender 2006 MIJ Jaguar Bass - Really loving this bass, now that it's had the  whimpy white pickguard replaced with a black one. With Matty Liot & The Big Up, this bass had the "Joe Lauro setup": E and A flatwound, D and G Roundwound; now it has the set of GHS Flatwounds (.45-.105) pirated from the Jazz Bass. This is now the secondary, B-number-2 stage bass.

Lakland 2007 Donald "Duck" Dunn Bass - Strings haven't changed, but this whimpy white pickguard is the next one to go. Thinking about something in a lighter-colored tortoise-shell. This is the primo, A-number-1 stage bass (also pictured at the top of this blog).

Fender 1961 Precision Bass - Nothing's changed with this bass. Same log, same James Jamerson Strings, same incredible sound, same rule: NO GIGS - it's the A-number-1 recording studio bass. The sound of this thing plugged into the '64 Ampeg B-15N, then recorded with a mic on one channel, and DI'd on the other... is "money in the bank" as they say. Wait, one thing has changed on this bass; I recently added the "Ashtray" bridge cover, which can be seen lower right in the photo.

Previous Blog: Basses and Their Strings

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