Mike Jackman, Words & Music

Author: Michael Jackman

  • New Video: “Mr. Spaceman” on guitar and mandolin

    New Video: “Mr. Spaceman” on guitar and mandolin

    I recorded this favorite song of mine especially as a thank you to new subscribers to my Youtube channel. It was great for me to work on, too – Roger McGuinn’s 12-string electric solo works perfectly on the mandolin, so I got to add one of my favorite instruments! If you’re not a subscriber and you like this and other of my videos, please subscribe to my channel. Making this video was so much fun!

    You can also find me on:

    • http://mollysmuttsband.com
    • https://www.facebook.com/michaeljackmanwordsandmusic/
    • https://www.facebook.com/MollysMuttsBand

    Enjoy!

  • Check this out: “Won’t Get Fooled Again” Mandolin/Guitar synth opening

    Check this out: “Won’t Get Fooled Again” Mandolin/Guitar synth opening

    I’ve been learning a new instrument: mandolin. And I thought it would be really cool to play the synthesizer opening to The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” on guitar and mandolin. So here’s what I came up with, recording both parts. I’m really enjoying this amazing new instrument.

    In other news, Molly’s Mutts is in rehearsals and we look forward to gigging again soon!

  • Poetry Podcast: “Stopping by Woods”

    Poetry Podcast: “Stopping by Woods”

    A short poetry podcast by yours truly that I think you’ll really enjoy. I take a nice, easy dive down into one of Robert Frost’s poems to show some of the cool inner workings. This was fun for me to do. I got to write the script, do the recording using my home studio, and even write and perform the incidental music. I used to be a regular on WFPL Louisville with a weekly audio segment, so it was fun for me to brush off those skills. And – there’s a short excerpt from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show!! If that doesn’t entice you, I don’t know what will. I look forward to doing more of these.

  • new video: I demo a partial capo

    new video: I demo a partial capo

    This video demonstrates my new gadget, a Shubb partial capo. I’m using it to play, “The Devil Had a Hold on Me” by Gillian Welch. It’s a song my trio, Molly’s Mutts, is adding to our set list. Enjoy the demo. Use the contact menu if you have any questions or comments.

  • the smell of apples fills the house

    the smell of apples fills the house

    Two crock pots simmer away through the night. Since I’m the one who gets up every two or three hours while Sarah lies curled in sweet oblivion, I’m the stirrer. Apple butter in the final stages.

    Yesterday, a morning taken for apple picking in Kentucky – a natural orchard in a nature preserve, with low, gnarled trees, varieties of all kinds, and drunken wasps stumbling over the droppings.

    Three sturdy shopping bags and about sixty pounds of fruit later, I get out a screwdriver and tighten up the works of our metal hand-cranked peeler and Sarah gets to work. Whirring the gadget, she makes peels curl like birthday present ribbons, saving them in a gallon jug for fermenting apple cider.

    While I was gone caring for my mother all July, Sarah filled the empty time with canning the overflow of veggies from our garden and our CSA. Blackberry jam, pickled hot peppers, hot pepper jelly, bloody Mary mix, tomato sauce, tomato juice, tomato puree, salsa….but now that I’m home there’s less filling a gap and more joy to the obsession.

    Insomnia comes with the territory…apnea, ADD, doubts and fears, bad dreams, insistent bladder. So it’s a blessing to wake up to the sweet potpourri of simmering apples and cinnamon, stir the thickening butter, and release more fragrance into the air.

  • why read Jewish poetry?

    why read Jewish poetry?

    That’s the title of my “OpEd” piece, which you can read in Louisville’s Community newspaper.

    The article grew out of a Zoom talk I gave to Louisville’s Temple Shalom.

    I want to thank Lee Chottiner, editor, for publishing the piece. I also want to thank Rabbi Jacowitz Chottiner of Temple Shalom and Lee Chottiner, for inviting me to give that talk.

    You can my article online, along with one of my poems.

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  • here’s a teaching playlist on Youtube for you

    here’s a teaching playlist on Youtube for you

    I just put up a new Youtube playlist: “Teaching Podcasts by Michael Jackman, Poet and Teacher.” There, you can watch videos I’ve made about poetry, teaching poetry, and teaching in general.

    If there’s something you’d like me to talk about, contact me.

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Mike Jackman, Words & Music

Singer-Songwriter, Multi-instrumentalist, Writer