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George Nostrand

About Me

These days The Pocket has gone through some transformation with the studio session for the next CD and some downsizing and rearranging. Stay tuned for some live clips featuring Steve Audsley on guitar.

My Interests

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Member Since: 14/06/2007
Band Website: www.georgebygeorge.com
Band Members:Marocs Levy, keyboards; Gary Miller-Wade, drums; Steve Audsley, lead guitar; and George Nostrand guitar & vocals...of course you never know who might be George's Back Pocket. We've featured fiddle players, saxaphone, banjo, percussion, and kazoo...
Influences: Neil Young, John Prine, Bob Dylan, Dan Harrington, Paul Bousquet, John Posie, Antje Ruppert, Laura Molinelli, Wayne Surrell, Rick Redington, Bow Thayer, Duane Carleton, Jim Gilmour, The Dubois, Phil Henry, Rebecca Padula, the Sandhill band, Strangefolk, Say Zuzu, Gandoph Murphy & The Salmbovian Circus of Dreams, and many more...
Sounds Like: The Rolling Thunder Review, Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks, early Grateful Dead - basically a bunch of people making music and having a lot of fun!
Record Label: Oak Street Studios

My Blog

This coming weekend

Deep breathes...it's coming - this weekend is the first scheduled studio session for the next CD - and I have no clue how it's going to go...trying to rehearse has been a bit of a nightmare, but I'm w...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:19:00 GMT

working on the building...

Hi folks -Had a good paractice on Friday night and recorded 5 rough cuts of tunes we are working on. Right now hoping to hit the first session with 8 songs ready to go and see what we get. For a sneak...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:39:00 GMT

Looking like April

All good things in time...looks like the studio dates are bumped back to mid April. This is not necessarily a bad thing as it means more practice time, (time for me to learn my own songs).Ryan Dubois ...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:20:00 GMT

In search of practice times

True to GBP form, we're sturggling to get together and actually practice...with everybody having busy lives, and everyone playing in at least one other band, trying to find a time to get together and ...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:55:00 GMT

Studio dates set!

After a year of "preparing", George's Back Pocket now has studio dates set for March. We will be starting our recording journey in Ruppert, VT, at my friend Paul's house which is an old train depot, (...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:00:00 GMT