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Ken Koenig

Ladies and Gents...Ken Koenig And The Band

About Me

Hello! I'm Ken Koenig.... I'm a 38 year old Singer/Songwriter/guitarist from Sacramento California. Born in Brooklyn New York...I'm actually proud of that ha I've been playing professionally for over 20 years now ( Since I was a Youngester!) I've been in other musically projects over the past few years "Daze of Green" is one that I was part writer for...I have been working on My 1st solo CD "Not Responsible For Any Thing Or Whatever" which is due for release in November of 2007. I have some mixes Posted for all to listen too!

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/15/2005
Band Website: Coming soon!
Band Members: my live band (and on some recordings) Is: Jeff Tuttle-Drums Tony Pacheco-Guitar and vocals Paul Hawley-Bass Steve Delrio-Congas and percussions
Influences: From Classical to Big bands....Glenn Miller, Benny Goodmen. Jazz...Miles Davis, Django Reinhardt... 50's doo wop!!, Rock-A-Billy.... Early 50's Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Gene Vincent and the BlueCaps, Buddy Holly The Beatles, Rolling Stones (60's and 70's Stones!) solo work by Paul mc Cartney, John Lennon and George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepplin, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Brian Wilson, James Taylor, Some classic Country, The Clash, The Stray Cats, 80's New Wave, 80's Cock rock....ya know....shit like White Snake, AC DC, Ozzie, Def lepard.. John Mellencamp, Neil Finn (Crowde House) Am 70's, Marvin Gaye, R'N' B oldies( Lowrider oldies!), George Michael, Seal, Nora Jones, Sheryl Crow, ...so much more!!!!
Sounds Like: Me...with some of my influences
Record Label: Baja Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

'SleepWalk

This is a home recording I did on October 24, 2005.  I had just bought a drum set in August 2005 and started to practice a little. I started to get a few simple beats down and decided t...
Posted by Ken Koenig on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:33:00 PST

Day I Die

This song was recorded back in the summer of 1999...This was when I first met my drummer Jeff Tuttle and was starting work on a Solo cd which happend to turn into a 2nd "Daze Of Green" cd. For those w...
Posted by Ken Koenig on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:58:00 PST

GOLDEN GIRL

I came up with song about 2 years ago.....it started of as a goofy little tune I would come up with words off the top of my head and sing it to my Girls...Dumb stuff like,"I pee'd my pants and I have ...
Posted by Ken Koenig on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:03:00 PST

"Down The Road"

Ok I've been working on this all weekend but still need to work out some mixing, EQ, maybe some Vocal punch-in's so this isn't the finally mix...Good enough to share I hope : ) For me not really being...
Posted by Ken Koenig on Mon, 28 May 2007 10:55:00 PST

North Country Town

Here's a song that was written  for The "Daze Of Green" project.  It's off the CD "When The Last Shinning Star Falls" Released December 4th 2003.  Music by- Ken Koenig and Ray Laba...
Posted by Ken Koenig on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:53:00 PST

"No Flies On Nigel"

Here's another New tune for my upcoming Cd...I still have some mixing here and there...but it sounds pretty dam good! I wrote this one about 2 years ago...It's about a chilhood friend of mine who did ...
Posted by Ken Koenig on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:29:00 PST

Never Be The Same

 This song dates back to 1998....Used to play it with Daze Of Green but then it was dropped from our set list soon after. Haven't played it since then.  So I re-worked it a little and decide...
Posted by Ken Koenig on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:12:00 PST

Little Boats On The River

This Was written back in 1999 and pretty much forgotten about until I recently reworked it a bit last year. A sappy little tune that came in a dream ; ) Musicians are: Daryl Vandruff- Drums  ...
Posted by Ken Koenig on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:01:00 PST

Singing The Blues

This is a cover from the 1950's by Guy mitchell.  My version is a little more Rock-A-Billy than the original, but still keeps the feel to it.  I Have a CD  called "Country Classics"... ...
Posted by Ken Koenig on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:40:00 PST

"Stay With Me Tonight"

This song was recorded right out of my bed room  like "Lonely Without You", It started out as a simple demo.  I was liking the Dylanish feel to it so I didn't want to change much.  So I...
Posted by Ken Koenig on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:52:00 PST