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Mike Kavanaugh

About Me

Mike's First CD, Red, is now available on iTunes. Click this link to go there.VISIT MIKE'S WEBSITE AT www.mikekavanaugh.comMike is a Christian and singer/songwriter/guitarist that loves folk & blues. He has been playing on and off for the past 25 years in churches, coffeehouses, restaurants, bars as well as being featured at local and regional blues festivals. For more details visit Mike's website at http://www.mikekavanaugh.com

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Music:

Member Since: 24/03/2007
Band Website: www.mikekavanaugh.com
Band Members: Mike w/Craig Owens on fiddle performing Mike's tune entitled After You at the Grand Opening of the new Kaleidoscope Coffeehouse in Albion, Michigan.Mike & Craig performing Susan Enan's Bring On The Wonder. Hear Susan's gorgeous original at www.MySpace.com/susanenan.Mike typically plays solo acoustic but can at times be seen & heard with one of these local performing artists sitting in: Terry Vargo (keyboards), Greg Hurley (guitars, bass, drums & percussion), Craig Owens (fiddle, guitar & strange stories), Steve "Frog" Forgey (loud & extremely loud guitars - just teasin' Frog), Greg Sauceda (drums & percussion); Mike Pelham (bass guitar and deep thought)...Has been doing quite a few shows lately with Craig Owens on his magic fiddle...Sometimes when he gets back in the Boston area he gets to do some playing with Eric "Guitar Doctor" Vance and other members of Illustrated Man...
Influences: Thrice - Come All You Weary
..A garden full of artists including Rev. Gary Davis, Bruce Cockburn, Peter Green, early Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, Thrice, Bruce Springsteen, Jorma Kaukonen, Julie & Buddy Miller, Rolling Stones, Eric Bibb, Taj Mahal, James Taylor, Neil Young, Patty Larkin, Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder, Van Morrison, Howlin' Wolf, Jessie Colin Young, Buffalo Springfield, Shawn Colvin, Willis Alan Ramsey, Ray Charles, Billie Holiday, Charlie Chaplin, Sarah Vaughn, Mick Goodrick, Al Green...
Sounds Like: Mike Kavanaugh, mike kavanaugh, Mike kavanaugh, er, mike Kavanaugh...
Record Label: None
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Mike Kavanaugh CD, Red, now on iTunes

Hi all.  Just a quick note to let you know that my first CD, Red, is now available on iTunes.  Just do a search for Mike Kavanaugh at iTunes and you'll find me.
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:52:00 GMT

Words and Notes - Sleepless

On first hearing, it may seem that Sleepless is about a womanizer stealing someone else’s woman but it is far from that. In this song I blended two themes into this strange concoction that ends ...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:28:00 GMT

Words and Notes - Remember When

Remember When is an instrumental piece I wrote and recorded in January 2002, just before having surgery on my right hand for a condition known as Dupuytren's Contracture.  Scar tissue formed insi...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:45:00 GMT

Words and Notes - Train Song

Train Song - As a singer/songwriter I always admired train songs.  There are so many great train songs: People Get Ready, Desperados Waiting For A Train, Train Kept A Rollin', Peace Train, Midnig...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:47:00 GMT

Words and Notes - We Are So Loved

Mike here.  I thought I would take a shot at doing this blog thing that has been going on for quite a while.  I thought it would be fun to share some info on the processes I use for songwrit...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:52:00 GMT