Luke R. J. Maynard

This week's #HomeMadeMusic: A love song to #LondonOntario 's #HomeCounty #Folk Festival. Dedicated to Jackie & Mose (much missed) the two Mandolin Kens: Whiteley & Palmer. Regulars will recall volunteers holding tarps over the speakers when it ALWAYS rained. lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/track/one-mo...

25 years on from #September11, nothing I could say about those we lost, or FOR them, will beat what #MarkKnopfler had to say. They're all love songs, I guess. But this one hits differently when you realize where it comes from. Who's YOUR last call... and what do you say? youtu.be/rH6ZW7OLhkE?...

On one level, this is amazing. every #drummer should watch it (and sneer along with me, "if he WERE overqualified he wouldn't need match grip!") OtOH, this is what I want to show lead #guitar players when I tell them, "don't overplay the song, bud." #musicsky #music www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UYg...

For today's #HomeMadeMusic, my "Parking Lot At Dawn," the indulgent finale from 2018's #DesolationSound. Pickup trucks; Verse 2. My tribute to my years with #LdnOnt 's #DixieFlyers, who would've eaten me alive for a #bluegrass song with a diminished chord. lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/track/parkin...

Observations that only make sense to the humans of #cats (right, #CatSky?): According to science, clean, unseasoned roast chicken is made up of 60% frenzied acrobatic joy, and 40% cat poop. It's going to be hard to finish my own chicken sandwich while my roommate is illustrating this principle.

Tonight on Radio Imaginaire, the radio drama of the classic #PhilipKDick novella, "The Committee Would Like You To Try Sending That Fax Again," soon to be adapted for the silver screen as the Hollywood blockbuster "SIGNAL BLAST!"☄️⚡🤯 #SciFi #NotARealThingSadly #ObscureHumour #PhilipKDickTitles

I'm in this picture, and I don't like it. 😖🥱

Hi #MusicianSky! New #Refluxions track up! This one's a #RyCooder cover. 45 years old, and maybe more timely now than it was then. It's also the only #coversong I've ever licensed for commercial release, though I prefer the sync-licensed video recording to my other. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DQ5...

In our continued effort to get to know members of our Bluesky community better, we’re curious: who are your five favorite female vocalists since the invention of audio recording? -Joni Mitchell -k. d. lang -Laura Nyro -Billie Holiday -Aretha Franklin My "right-now list" is so far from definitive.

Hey #FolkMusic fans... Q: How many #fiddlers does it take to play #StAnnesReel? A: All of them, apparently! Offered with love. I miss the summer #folk festival jams. #Music is a lonely thing, these days. (insert witty double entendre about who I'm playing with here). youtu.be/PGy9m80hD1E

It's #BandcampFriday! Why not #BuyCanadian today? My 1st album, Desolation Sound, is a tribute to the #indiemusic heroes I shared festival stages with growing up. If you attended Home Country or Mariposa, this is your jam. If not, come back in time with me! lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...

Here's a helpful cognitive distortion when thinking about #America, or #Israel, or #Iran: whatever country you WANT to hold up as righteous, falsely equate it to its people. Then falsely equate the other two to their ruling regimes. Each regime is profiting by throwing its own kids into the fire.

🎶More #newmusic from me (and me, and me)!🎵 I'm about 20 minutes (4pm EST), the Refluxions drop a new #JohnnyWinter cover. I look so much less weird with sunglasses that I may just go full Orbison going forward. youtu.be/5M3kWoDXdBw?...

If you wonder why #Trump is invading #Venezuela, "Me take what me want," "Me hate Latinos" and "me scared of #EpsteinFiles" is 95% of it. But If you want to know the true complexities of why his far-smarter handlers like #StephenMiller & #RussVought want this, this thread is a good place to start:

In the immortal words of Malcolm Reynolds, "Might've been on the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one." This one's for you, #BlueJays fans. And you, #Watchmen fans, in case you're jealous the #MLB jocks get more love than us comic nerds during the #WorldSeries. See you in 17 hours!

This would not be my first go-to movie choice, nor my first go-to Muppet. But given the chance to choose a pairing, "Kill Bill Parts 1 & 2," but replace Beatrix Kiddo with Miss Piggy.

I've got some #newmusic up to start the week, if anyone in the #MusicSky world wants to check it out. I've been using the "Refluxions" gimmick for covers; this is my first original in this format. Maybe I'll polish it into a single, but this is a very rough draft. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BM6...

I almost forgot: today is #BandCampFriday, the first Friday of the month when #Bandcamp supports #indiemusic by giving its share of all album sales back to the artists. If you still want to #BuyCanadian, this is as Canadian an album as I could make. 🍁🦫 lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...

I almost forgot: today is #BandCampFriday, the first Friday of the month when #Bandcamp supports #indiemusic by giving its share of all album sales back to the artists. If you still want to #BuyCanadian, this is as Canadian an album as I could make. 🍁🦫 lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...

My dystopian fear as a #writer in the #writingcomnunity isn't a world where every human uses #AI to think & write. it's a world where under its pervasive influence, every human eventually thinks & writes so much like AI that it doesn't matter if they use it or not.

I wonder sometimes what would've happened if #BrianWilson had worked with the Prophet Isiah or the Book of Psalms as his lyricist, and G.F. #Handel had been left to write about fast cars, teenage romance, and surfing. Who, truly, captured the heavens in harmony? RIP Brian. youtu.be/VS4sKZMkJOQ?...

Awright! I made a Friesh Thing - well-kent, ah hawp, but aye worth getting in th'kin, innit? Sadly I can't do justice to #JohnMartyn 's iconic Glaswegian mumble. Wrangling the audio/video for this four-piece vid was a huge headache. I hope it was worth it! #MusicianSky #MusicSky #IndieFolk #Music

I'm sure a few folks on #MusicSky know the joy of recovering access to masters you once thought lost. But 18 years later? I doubt many of the #indiemusic crowd are that old. But I am! I'm looking (& listening) backward to past chapters, and forward to future ones. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tqia7...

I'm not sure why I'm suddenly so popular here…but hi & welcome! I'll try to offer content worthy of your feed: this is my "peacetime" social media. I try to leave my vicious politicized snark (some might prefer that) on the birdsite, now my "wartime" site. Here's a song new to #BlueSky/ #MusicSky.

I saw this news item, then Ms. Öztürk's name, and a photo of a woman in a headscarf. I rejoiced. I wondered what vile dictatorship we negotiated her release from—until I saw. In my day, the USA were the ones negotiating for this wonan's freedom. I'm still getting used to seeing them as the jailers.

Dear #indiemusic lovers of #MusicSky, I can't think of a better time (OK 6 hours ago would've been nice) to remind you that today is #BandcampFriday: all proceeds to the artists! If you're keen to #BuyCanadian, this is the most Canadian #music I could make: lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...

Hard to believe that I started my main #YouTube channel 12 years go today. This is the first thing I ever posted; 12 years later I'm still playing wit...uh, my own band. My playing may not have gotten much better, but the lighting sure has! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqOJ... #MusicSky #Acoustic #jazz

Tell a friend. Tell your enemies, too, unless you want the richest man in the world to buy their DNA to make roboclones of the most awful people.

Part of my #BuyCanadian mission this year includes listening, playing, & singing Canadian.🍁 I can't think of a finer place to start than #JoniMitchell, who is probably pound for pound the best #songwriter our great country has ever produced. Thanks for listening, #MusicSky. 🎶 youtu.be/q5eknnLtbvc

Okay, #MusicSky, this one's a brand new recording, no bells, no whistles. Just me celebrating my new all-canadian guitar Sam with some Blind Arthur Blake. I'll do some multitrack stuff soon, so add me here and on YouTube! youtu.be/f2zYNN1BcOA?... #nowplaying #blues #Acoustic #MusicianSky #Acoustic

My receipt on BlueSky so far, courtesy of bskypt.vercel.app Is that really how I talk? A few of my skeets are just old Twitter retweets... so I guess the right people know when they're not new. 😅