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Brooklyn Is Sinking
Josh Weinstein
The breakthrough second album by composer/singer/fender-rhodesmaster Josh Weinstein. By turns groovy, soulful, wistful, raucous, literate, sardonic, and sophisticated. Highly recommended.
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Stones | 2:12 | Play |
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Stuck in the Tall Grass | 5:05 | Play |
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Is and Should Have Been | 4:59 | Play |
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She Like | 5:22 | Play |
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Sonny | 4:56 | Play |
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Trouble | 3:26 | Play |
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October | 4:13 | Play |
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Scared White Men | 5:24 | Play |
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Brooklyn Is Sinking | 5:32 | Play |
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If It Don't Rain on Lispenard | 4:38 | Play |
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A Minor Cool (Palimpsest) | 4:59 | Play |
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Falling Back on Fire | 5:11 | Play |
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Description
"Explosive"
KJ Ward, NBC TV
"A superb writer, pianist and performer"
Joey Reynolds, WOR/syndicated
"An artist through and through...Weinstein is in complete command of his instrument."
Mike Casey, KQMT, Denver
"Very, very cool.
Radio Crystal Blue
About Josh Weinstein
Grew up in Poughkeepsie, NY. Spent childhood weekends in New York Citymostly in barswith father.
Mother was 60s folk singer/songwriter and recording artist, grandmother was a concert cellist who had a weekly radio performance program on the CBC in Canada.
Began studying piano and writing music at age 10.
English major in college, Literature in grad school. Worked as bartender, jingle-writer and friday-night Hey, how ya doing, thanks for listening cocktail jazz piano player to pay for grad school.
Worked in the real world as a writer, editor, and advertising copywriter. Clients included American Express (Blue), Allstate, and other shining paragons of corporate and personal virtue. Wrote music and played piano in a variety of bands at night.
Lived in Colorado, then California. Then Washington, DC and Maine. Moved back to New York City in late 1999.
Lived two buildings south of the World Trade Center towers. Was there for the attacks on September 11, 2001.
Went underground. Reevaluated. Slowed down. Recovered.
Quit job in 2002 to return to music full-time. Moved to Brookyln.
Recorded first album, Petty Alchemy, in August, 2003. There Aint Nothing Sadder Than a Saturday Night, track 2 from that album, received Honorable Mention in the 2004 Billboard Song Contest.
Several cuts from Petty Alchemy received regional airplay.
Brooklyn Is Sinking was released on October 10, 2006.
Weinstein has been heard on NPR's "All Things Considered," XM Satellite Radio, Sirius Satellite Radio, and hundreds of other stations across the country.
About "Brooklyn Is Sinking"
Rehearsals for Brooklyn Is Sinking began in August of 2005. Basics were recorded (to tape) in October, at Monster Island Sound, an analog studio in Manhattan. Additional recording continued at the studio into 2006.
Album material written in 2004 and 2005.
Album was mastered at Sterling Sound in Manhattan, and released in fall of 2006.