“Uptown and Country”(Composed and arranged by Reynold D. Philipsek 1990 and 2025 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Lead and rhythm guitars-Reynold“Octave pedal” bass line-Luke KramerDrums- Rob DaviesRecorded by Stymie SeamansVideo production by Rene Erickson (May, 2025) This recording and song is from the archive. It holds up very well. The concept of the piece was to mix “uptown” and “country” and “rockabilly” […]
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(Written and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek copyright 1993 re-released and mastered 2012) Reynold-lots of guitars, bass, knee slap, horse hooves, wooden “train flute,” whoops and hollers, tambourine (Spurs)Recording engineer-Stymie Seamans (and some “whoops and hollers”) I realize some of you have heard this one before but I recently received an email about it from a random listener who had
(Written and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek copyright 2015 Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Recording engineer-Stymie Seamans “Kiki” was the name of our female Lhasa Apso. She lived to eighteen years and four months old, which is a long life for a dog. This tune is for her. We now have a beautiful Havanese female named Sasha or “Sashi.” I tried to write
(Composed by Reynold D. Philipsek 2004 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Guitars-ReynoldBass-Jeff Engholm For about 7 years in the early 2000s, I had a weekly Sunday night gig on East Hennepin Avenue in North Minneapolis. We also played there on other nights as well during that period including a few New Year’s Eve gigs. Consequently, a lot of time was spent playing
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(Composed and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek 2010 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI) Ever since I was 12-years-old, Edgar Allan Poe was a favorite writer. I was so smitten at that age that I had my mother make a black cape for me (for some reason I thought Poe wore a cape) and I would fill a notebook with some pretty
(Written by Reynold D. Philipsek Zino-Rephi Musc BMI)Reynold-guitarHarmonica-Clint HooverBass-Matt SenjemPercussion-Michael Bissonnette Engineer-Stymie Seamans This song is my tribute to Joe Pass. I took a lesson or two with the great Joe when I was in L.A. in 1975 for a couple of months. I had a two-month gig backing up a folk singer there (sort of a Jim Croce thing). I