We’re #1

Oct 7, 2013

742451857221Friends, We (Si Kahn and the Looping Brothers) are very proud to announce that our new joint CD Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions was the #1 CD for September 2013 on the international Folk DJ List. We were recognized as the #1 Artists, and the CD’s title track “Aragon Mill” as the #1 song.

These rankings were based on actual weekly airplay reports submitted by 137 folk DJs around the world.

Looping Brothers@AragonMillWe wish to thank our radio promotion specialist Kari Estrin of Kari Estrin Management and Consulting in Nashville for doing such a great job with th CD. We also want to thank Pieter Groenveld, President of Strictly Country Records, for putting out the album.

We also want to thank the many DJs around the world who played the songs on Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions.

April 14th will be a very special show.  My dear friend of over 50 years, Si Kahn, turns 80-years-old on April 23rd and I’m throwing a Si Kahn 80th Birthday Party.  Besides being a frequent partner-in-crime, Si and I co-wrote five consecutive Grammy-nominated albums, toured our Signs of the Times tour (with sign language artist, Susan Freundlich). Not incidentally, Si is the godfather of my son Peter.  I was the first person to record a Si Kahn song, even before his incredible debut album New Wood.  So, I’ll reprise that first song, along with lots more of his great music.  But, most wonderfully, there will be over a dozen artists, including Billy Bragg, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Tom Chapin, Jane Sapp, Holly Near, and Kathy Mattea, who’ll be chiming in with tales about Si and singing some of his classic songs.  This will be an incredible evening and a chance to not only hear some great music, but honor the guy I declared, “The best damn songwriter in the South…in his spare time!” back in 1975. 

Even if you’re not able to watch the celebration live, your ticket will allow you to view a recording of the full event for the next two weeks.

100% of ticket sales will go to support the official launch at the concert of the Si Kahn Living Legacy, a new non-profit project that will make available in perpetuity those of Si’s songs, stories, song cycles for children and adults, poems, unpublished books, musicals, and other creative works that have never before been available to the public, and ultimately keep them alive and easily accessible after he’s gone.