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"My heart is still in it-my heart is still in the game-I love the game. It's something I want to prove to myself-not anybody els. I just want to show people that fear is a choice. You can keep going in something without having the answers and without knowing what's at the end of the tunnel. Or you might feel anxious, you might feel any type of way, but you keep putting that right foot in front of the left one and you keep going. I want to stand for that." Damar Hamlin
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"Those that have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living." Buddha
Be cool, be kind,
KdB
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Rick Carlisle, on Bill Walton-Close friend, played with him on 1986 Celtics Championship Team, Indiana Pacers Head Coach: "He defiantly competed for every moment in his life to be the greatest it possibly could be."
Take care, be cool, be kind-kb
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In this era of half truths, blatant lies and false narratives- if you are certain of the truth in a matter, you have an obligation-"If you "know" the truth, speak it."
Be cool, be kind, KDB
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"The voice doesn't lead, the spirit leads." Bobby Mc Ferrin
Be cool, be kind,
KdB
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"Live life with a brave heart and a wild imagination." Elliott Charles George
May love, peace and joy grace your door this year and the years to come. Be cool, be kind,
KdB
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"Live life with a brave heart and a wild imagination." Elliott Charles George
May love, peace and joy grace your door this years and the years to come. Be cool, be kind,
KdB
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Hmmmm-due to genetics, biology and happenstance- "Everything is the way it is because it got that way." D'Arcy Thompson, Biologist
Be cool, be kind,
KdB
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Quote of the Week "Those who fail to listen to/appreciate the wisdom of those with life experience are destined to the life of a fool." Unknown
Be cool, be kind,
KdB
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Quote of the Week "It takes a long time to play like yourself." Miles Davis
Be cool, be kind,
KdB
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Quote of the Week "To conquer oneself is a greater victory then to conquer thousands in battle." Buddha
Have a good one.
KdB
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Quote of the Week "Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity." His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Have a good one.
KdB
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Quote of the Week "Leave that which makes you doubt for that which does not make you doubt". Yusuf/Cat Stevens
Have a good one.
KdB
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Dead Horses-what a great band-recently caught them In Indy-if you have a chance to see them you will be glad you did!
John Mellencamp is going on tour this February-seen him a number of times-great showman, songwriter and as a person more to him than what he lets be known-know this from personal experience-hope you get to see one of his shows! QUOTE OF THE WEEK: "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not fighting on the old, but on building the new. " SOCRATES
Peace, love and all the best, KdB
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Lats night went to see Dead Horses in Fountain Square Rabbit Cabaret, Indianapolis-great show picked up their new album-excited to hear it. Quote of the Week: "Those who never change their minds never change anything." Winston Churchill
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"The Blue Sky Sessions debuted #10 on the Relix/jambands.com charts the week -so thankful to be heard, just pretty cool-please see link below:
https://jambands.com/radio-charts/2021/03/30/shake-your-money-maker-at-30-is-1/
1. The Black Crowes Shake Your Money Maker (30th Anniversary Deluxe)
2. Dave Alvin From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings
3. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio I Told You So
4. Sturgill Simpson Cuttin' Grass Vol. 2: The Cowboy Arms Sessions
5. Goose Ted Tapes 2021
6. Willie Nelson That's Life
7. Nathaniel Rateliff And It's Still Alright
8. Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Straight to You Live
9. Paul McCartney McCartney III
10. KD Bantz The Blue Sky Sessions
11. Non Duo In Your Eyes
12. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard KG
13. Aqueous Live! from Philadelphia-September Eighteen '20
14. Trey Anastasio Band Burn It Down
15. Shemekia Copeland Uncivil War
16. Steve 'N' Seagulls Another Miracle
17. The Hold Steady Open Door Policy
18. Ani DiFranco Revolutionary Love
19. Tautologic Wheels Fall Off
20. Erin Harpe Meet Me In The Middle
21. Blackberry Smoke You Hear Georgia
22. Dr. Dog Live 2
23. Lazer Lloyd "Midnight Rider"
24. Keller Williams & Erothyme Cell
25. Neil Young & Crazy Horse Way Down In The Rust Bucket (Live)
26. Circus Mind "Are You Ready?" (feat. Brandon "Taz" Neiderauer) [single]
27. Roots Of Creation "Roots of Creation" (feat. Mighty Mystic) [single]
28. Dumpstaphunk Where Do We Go From Here
29. Tom Mullen Into The Twilight
30. Joe Cotton My Place
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Take care,
kd
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Always great to find new sources of inspiration and I tend to find that in guitars-sold/practically gave- my Telecaster a few months back to my niece-to whom I'm giving guitar lessons-she just loved the guitar so I let her have a great deal on it-beautiful playing Tele-knew I would miss it-but was happy to let a new guitar enthusiast and favorite niece have it-wasn't planning on buying a replacement but came across a Tele that had Seymor Duncan humbuckers that could switch to single coil sound-wow man-this guitar lights it up-just a beautifully wild, warm, f$#@&*g instrument-doors of creativity are flying open with this baby-holding on-just holding on for the ride and see where it takes me-sorry I digress-but man this is exciting!
Take care,
kdb
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"Not A Cloud in the Sky for KD Bantz and his new release "The Blue Sky Sessions"
per Jimmy Rae at Scope-Thanks Jimmy for listening and the kind words-even more thanks-because you really got what I was hoping to accomplish with this project-thanks man. Please see Jimmy's review below:
https://skopemag.com/2021/04/02/not-a-cloud-in-sight-for-kd-bantz-and-his-new-release-the-blue-sky-sessions
Take care everyone, peace, love and all the best,
KD
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So appreciate the kind words about "The Blue Sky Sessions" from Keith Pro at Indie Band Guru-please see his review at:
https://indiebandguru.com/kd-bantz-blue-sky-sessions/
Peace, love and all the best,
KD
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Just posted a video to this site-of a dear friend of mine Terry Randall and I jamming at Goodrich Park in Winchester, IN-hope you enjoy.
Peace, love and all the best,
KDB
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Have been doing a lot of writing. Wrote a new Christmas song-awoke at 4 in the morning and had this rich melody going through my head-had to get up and work it out. "Holy Son" is AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD!
Still getting a lot of positive feedback on my latest album "The Blue Sky Sessions"-keep getting "sounds like Santana"-wow that blows me away, love that man's playing.
Was so fortunate to have great drummers like Todd Harold and Kenny Aronoff on it.
Peace,love, and joy to all,
KB
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Have been doing a lot of writing. Wrote a new Christmas song-awoke at 4 in the morning and had this rich melody going through my head-had to get up and work it out. Will get "Holy Son" out on video/recorded soon.
Still getting a lot of positive feedback on my latest album "The Blue Sky Sessions"-keep getting "sounds like Santana"-wow that blows me away, love that man's playing.
Was so fortunate to have great drummers like Todd Harold and Kenny Aronoff on it.
Peace,love, and joy to all,
KB
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Have been doing a lot of writing. Wrote a new Christmas song-awoke at 4 in the morning and had this rich melody going through my head-had to get up and work it out. Will get "Holy Son" out on video/recorded soon.
Still getting a lot of positive feedback on my latest album "The Blue Sky Sessions"-keep getting "sounds like Santana"-wow that blows me away, love that man's playing.
Was so fortunate to have great drummers like Todd Harold and Kenny Aronoff ply on it.
Peace,love, and joy to all,
KB
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Hope this finds all is well with you and those you care about. I have been quite busy writing new material for an upcoming release-which I will digress more upon in a later update. Now I want to discuss a special experience I had on January 21, 2006. But before I start chatting about that eventful evening, I need to explain the events of how that evening came about-because there was some unexpected, spontaneous magic here. The kind of magic that starts with an idea that mushrooms and grows beyond anyones expectations. The kind of magic that happens when you mix some spontaniety, a special cause, some good-hearted, hard working people and a little music-not a lttle-quite a bit of music.
I live in the eastern Indiana community of Portland, Indiana. Now this creates some confusion with long-time friends because at one time I lived in Portland, Oregon-so when I start talking about Portland I have to clarify which one. Portland, INDIANA has a wonderful performing arts facility called Arts Place. Arts Place is an intimate theatre with exceptional sound and lighting systems that seats around 300. The acoustics in this room are unbelievably warm-a great place for an acoustic show. The Arts Place Executive Director, Eric Rogers had approached me a number of times thoughout 2005 and asked "when are you going to play Arts Place?"-and I always had some reason why a performance was not in the cards. Either I had previous commitments or the timing for a show there just did not feel right. One evening in the early fall (just shortly after gas prices had sky rocketed to over 3 bucks and I had been reading various articles about how home heating costs were expected to go through the roof and cause a lot of people hardships-especially older folks and single Moms-low/fixed income families) I ran into Eric and he asked me again about the possibility of me playing Arts Place and I responded that I would play Arts Place if the proceeds would go to benefit folks in need of energy assistance. He was on the idea immediately and one thing lead to another. Jay County REMC (spearheaded by Marketing Director Cindy Denney-what a dynamo)stepped up to provide promotional and advertising support and arranged for a silent auction (that included a reception of food and beverages) after the show of donated items from local merchants to raise funds beyond those from the tickets. The audience was urged to bring food donations for the local food bank. The Executive Director, Larry Braden, of Community and Family Services, which provides various services including energy assistance services for low income families for a five county region was a big help and pillar of support. My job was to play two fifty minute acoustic sets.
A home town crowd, great cause, wonderful setting-the heat was on-I did not want to let anybody down-I wanted this to be a special night. Probably the hardest part for me was planning the set lists-the musical journey that hopefully would help to make this a special evening. I played all original tunes-started out with five new/unreleased songs on the twelve string, then shifted to four tunes on the six string Martin (the first two were "End of an Era" and "Till That Whistle Blows" off of the "You Can't Go Back" album-the 2nd two were new, unreleased). After the break I played a couple of open tuning finger picking tunes on my six string Guild and then shifted back to the twelve string and played some harmonica on the next 3 songs. I ended the show with 3 songs from the "You Can't Go Back album-"Blind Jack Johnson", "Crowded Room" and lastly, an extended jam version of the title track "You Can't Go Back". All I can say is Wow! What a night-the crowd was great, they were into it and on their feet at the end-and the really cool part was we raised a few thousand dollars for a very worthy cause.
All I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone that attended and pitched in to make the evening possible. It was a special night indeed.
I have to run-everyone take care.
Ken
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Yes indeedy- "The Blue Sky Sessions" has been unofficially/officially released. It will be on all major streaming apps shortly and also at http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/kdbantz. Please check it out and thanks for listening-will be uploading to this site in the near future.
L, P and all the best,
Ken(KD)
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The soon to be released album "The Blue Sky Sessions" is at the replicators-this album features blues, rock reggae, mystical instrumental, great players-thank you to all and a painting I love for the cover of the Flinder mountains in Australia. PLUS- on the closing track "We Can Make It If We Try" Kenny Aronoff on drums! Everything fell into place for us to have Kenny play-A. he loved the song B. he had a break in his schedule at the time we approached him-and did he deliver-4 great takes-besides being an exceptional drummer Kenny is a a fine human being-what a pleasure to work with-THANK YOU Kenny. Sooo-looking forward to a release date soon so that I can share this guitar driven artistic endeavor with you.
Peace, love and all the best,
KDB
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Alright-have been out of touch/sight for a while-why-been in the Cloister studio with the infamous engineer Jon Gillespie and have laid out 10 new songs. Recording and mixing of the project, "The Blue Sky Sessions" is almost completed. We started in October of last year and what a journey it has been-had been working on these songs for quite some time-like 3 years-and it was so cool seeing them come too life in the studio. Hopefully will be looking at an early spring release.
Secondly, one of the songs on this album is an instrumental "Flight of the Monarch"-which its about the life and migration of the Monarch butterfly-what an amazing creature-it travels hundreds of miles in the late summer early fall from the US to Mexico. Hope to raise some awareness-as the Monarch's habitat is being depleted. Played this song on a Nashville guitar-the tone from fingerpicking this guitar is mystical and Brian Lawrence-video director-is doing a wonderful job of marrying the audio to the visual beauty of the Monarch. Release should be soon.
Peace and all the best, kb
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Playing an acoustic show to help with the annual fundraiser for the Jay County Trails Club. The club's purpose is to maintain and extend trails for biking and hiking in Jay County. Looking forward to this event-should be a grand time for a grand cause.
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Headed back in the studio-have been writing/developing new material for the past couple of years and it's time. Looking forward to laying these tunes out and seeing how they come to life on the studio-some rockers, mellow groovers and ballads. Back to rehearsing.
All the best,
KD
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I went to an Orange Shirt Rally in Bloomington, Indiana yesterday-June1, rallies are being held nationwide this weekend to raise awareness concerning gun violence. Please note-most folks there just want gun safety-one program offered is called SMART-which is not anti-gun-but advocates safe gun ownership practices in the home-for example- if you have kids and guns then the guns should be in a secure place where the kids can not access them-just common sense-imagine if these practices had been in effect at least some of the kids that have committed school gun violence may never have had access to a gun. There are SMART folks all around the country that will make free presentations to your club or social group-get informed, get SMART-save young lives.
Peace, love snd all the best, KDB
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The marches this weekend are for a grand cause-our young people in this country deserve too live/attend schools without living in fear of gun violence-as artists we need to speak out and support our youth and teachers. It is time we have well thought out solutions to this problem. Mind you, I am not anti gun-but there needs to be well thought out/common sense measures taken/studies performed to arrive at viable solutions to this problem. The time is know, for we have lost too many-too many "Lost Flowers in the Rain"-a song I wrote addressing this issue-please see my site for a free download and also-please spread the word.
Peace, love and all the best, KDB
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Hi all,
Have a show this weekend at a cool venue in Ft.Wayne, The Dash-In off of Calhoun St. Place just has a good vibe to it-plus fine craft beers and food-Have a number of other upcoming shows-please check my events calendar on this site for details.
Peace and all the best,
KB
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Philip Seymour Hoffman-what a talent-I'm bummed-why do the talented/gifted ones have to go so young/early. Rest in peace brother.
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Time is a flying-had two shows the past week. On 11/2 played at a new venue in Bloomington, IN, The Trailhead-great pizza and tasty selection of micro-brews-I thoroughly enjoyed this space-cozy, warm and great sound system-thanks again Dan for dialing me in so superbly and inviting me down to play-looking forward to the opportunity perform there again.
Last night played for the Artist Alcove annual artists reception in good ol Portland. Saw some amazing art work, plus the folks that make-up the Alcove are just a good bunch of folks-was truly honored to be asked to perform the music for this event-thanks Artist Alcove for letting me be a part of this happening.
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Hey-
Wow-last couple of months have blown by-had planned on being out and about more-but wrecked/rolled my car a few times in mid-August and am now just getting up to speed. No serious injuries-at least they think none- but sure got the heck beat out of me. Event like that makes one ponder a lot of things-brings a bit of perspective to life.
Have a fun gig planned at a place near Bloomington, Indiana called The Trailhead on Sat. 11/2 from 7-10pm (what a cool name The Trailhead-just the name brings back fond memories of hiking in the mountains of the Great Northwest. Looking forward to playing some songs off the new release "This is Heaven"-also looking forward to hooking up with a friend and music compadre, Dan Figuerlli-who played on and produced "This is Heaven". The Trailhead is a laid back place, good venue to kick back and enjoy some tunes, eat some good food and have a beer or two-should be a good time. I'll be playing some songs from "This is Heaven", some from my previous two releases- "You Can't Go Back" and "Complete the Circle"-plus some unreleased tunes fresh off the presses and some of my favorite covers. Hope to see you there.
Peace and all the best---Ken
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Just returned from a visit to Nashville, TN. Hooked up with a good friend used to backpack with in Oregonhad and spent some time playing music, visiting and a little fishing at Ron's pond (fishing wasn't too serious-too busy visiting, telling stories and sipping on some tasty micro brews). Always good for the soul to see Ron-good musician and song writer in his own right-and man-is his daughter Anna ever the talent-only 13 and already an established player and writer. Ron, LeNaye, Anna-thanks for the hospitality and just good ol friendship.
Peace and all the best,
Ken
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Have an important show coming up-benefit for a talented young woman named Emily Grider-you see-Emily is a senior in high school-runs track, good student and grandaughter of a friend of mine named Regina (who is a real character and sister of a dear deceased friend-Charlie Noble). Emily found last July she has leukemia-shes been putting up a good fight-going to classes when she can and keeping a positive attitude. Naturally this fight has been expensive-cancer treatment is not cheap-so a benefit is being put on to help defray the costs of Emily's treatments-so come on out to the Royerton Amvets on June 8-from 11 to 4 and let's give Emily all the support and love we can!
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Finally, spring is here-rugged winter in Indiana-but the birds are singing and you can feel winter has finally lost its grip-put up a new bluebird house a couple of weeks ago and saw that there were some occupants just the other day.
Response to "This is Heaven" has been mighty fine-have some Americana stations giving it some spins and very warm responses from you listeners-truly appreciate it and humbled-thanks for listening and spreading the word.
Peace and all the best and remember the words of the great Benjamin Franklin "Beer is God's way of showing us he loves us"
KB
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The responses I have been receiving for the pre-released copies of "This is Heaven"-sent a number out as Xmas gifts and promos- has been beyond expectations. What's interesting is that different folks have different songs that are their favorites. Was fortunate to have producer Dan Figuerlli whose exp includes The Sound Factory, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band and Paul(MKS)Mahern-who over saw the project and performed mix/mastering. Paul brought a lot to the table-exp with John Mellencamp,Willie Nelson, Neil Young, James McMurtry and T-Bone Burnett-among others-thanks again to White Arc Studios and all the project musicians.
All the best, Ken
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The new upcoming release "This is Heaven" is hot off the presses-official release is scheduled for early 2013. If you would like a pre-releae copy-please shoot me an e-mail. Fortunate to have some exceptionally talented folks help this project come to life. From the folks at White Arc Studios to the musicians to the cover art-the creative vibe from everyone throughout this journey has been unreal and it shows on the completed project-look forward to sharing.
Peace, love, joy and all the best to everyone,
Ken
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I started a new recording project in June-well-not really-started it when I started writing some of the songs to be included-some of which I've been working on for some time. Probably the hardest thing was to choose which songs to include-as I had quite a back log of material to choose from since my last project "Complete the Circle". Excited about this project-primarily because of the songs-the audience at shows has been very positive-they just seemed to get into them and enjoy the. Plus-where I'm recording it is pretty darn cool too. I'll keep you posted.
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Recently posted this new song to the website-seeing the people we love get old and the related loss of physical and mental abilities is difficult-our elders are our national treasures-we need to take care of them.
Peace always,
Ken
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Pie baby-yes pie-fighting a cold and have found that pie-especially a berry pie is the best answer. Have a number of new songs in the hopper-couple of love songs, ballad about a famous outlaw and a hard driving blues tune-plus a number of other songs yet to be recorded. Some studio time may be on the horizon.
Peace always,
Ken
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It's almost completed-the new release "Complete the Circle"-seven new songs that include the ballad "Boy With the Fife", the 10 minute reggae/jazz fusion jam "The Time has Come", the insightful "Prophets and Sages", the upbeat swing in "Yeah, Yeah (Politician) Blues", hardhitting rocker "Turn the Night into Day", twelve string, pedal steel laced "Roll Like a River" and the ending with the rising/climbing climax in "Complete the Circle". Look forward to sharing these songs.
Kindest regards,
Ken
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