LONG ROAD has been a group since 2007, but its members have a combined total of more than 200 years of professional music experience (though no one member has actually been playing for that long). They are all veterans of rock, folk, blues, bluegrass and jazz groups (with a little classical as well).
Long Road plays intricate arrangements, using various combinations of nearly 20 instruments, including guitars, acoustic bass, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, autoharp, Celtic harp, fiddle, pedal steel guitar, hammered dulcimer and bowed psaltry, and five voices.
Specializing in 1960s acoustic singer-songwriter fare, Long Road calls itself “Cleveland’s favorite – and only – '60s-style folk group.” The group’s motto is “Making Old Songs New and New Songs Sound Old” because it performs not only '60s folk, but traditional folk, and folk-y versions of early-'50s rockabilly, late-'60s psychedelic rock, '20s and '30s jazz and jug-band music, early and contemporary country, '60s folk-rock, blues, bluegrass, contemporary folk and pop, and a few originals – but all in a '60s folk style.
Long Road believes in doing what I call “a whole show,” meaning that there is no down time – I provide humor and music history between all the songs (with no awkward silences, no long tuning sessions during which nothing else is happening, no figuring out what to play next, no shuffling papers or messing around with amp settings, or drinking water). So even though not all of the songs are from the '60s, the show itself is the kind you would have experienced in a '60s folk club.
Long Road performs infrequently, by design, and every show includes many songs the group has never performed prior to that one. So catch a Long Road show when you can. For instance, a very good time to see them would be at their next show – wherever that may be.
Long Road has been on hiatus for a while, first because of various members' medical issues and, now, like most other musicians, because of the pandemic. Visit Long Road's website: www.LongRoadMusic.com for more info about the group.
Long Road is: David Budin (guitar, vocals, between-song humor and history); Ray DeForest (bass, vocals); Celia Hollander Lewis (banjo, Celtic harp, autoharp, ukulele, bowed psaltry, hammered dulcimer, recorder, penny whistle, vocals), Charlie Lewis (guitar, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, vocals), and Bob Sandham (acoustic and electric guitars, pedal steel guitar, vocals).
LONG ROAD NEWS:
Watch for future shows.
ALSO ...
Long Road's first CD is out now. It's a recording of a concert. We also have T-shirts available. You can get these things in one or more of several ways. The three most common are:
1. Buy them from the Long Road website: www.LongRoadMusic.com (under the "Store" page).
2. Send $15 per CD or T-shirt to: Long Road, 2195 Delaware Drive, Cleveland Heights, OH 44106; and your CD(s) will be mailed to you.
3. Get them at our shows. (Watch for upcoming shows.)
You can sign up for Long Road’s very irregular and infrequent electronic newsletters – as entertaining as they are edifying. Just send your e-mail address to David Budin at popcycles@sbcglobal.net.
You can also join the “Fans of Long Road” group on Facebook.
Booking& Info
David Budin, PopCycles Productions
216-554-5960
popcycles@sbcglobal.net
Long Road plays intricate arrangements, using various combinations of nearly 20 instruments, including guitars, acoustic bass, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, autoharp, Celtic harp, fiddle, pedal steel guitar, hammered dulcimer and bowed psaltry, and five voices.
Specializing in 1960s acoustic singer-songwriter fare, Long Road calls itself “Cleveland’s favorite – and only – '60s-style folk group.” The group’s motto is “Making Old Songs New and New Songs Sound Old” because it performs not only '60s folk, but traditional folk, and folk-y versions of early-'50s rockabilly, late-'60s psychedelic rock, '20s and '30s jazz and jug-band music, early and contemporary country, '60s folk-rock, blues, bluegrass, contemporary folk and pop, and a few originals – but all in a '60s folk style.
Long Road believes in doing what I call “a whole show,” meaning that there is no down time – I provide humor and music history between all the songs (with no awkward silences, no long tuning sessions during which nothing else is happening, no figuring out what to play next, no shuffling papers or messing around with amp settings, or drinking water). So even though not all of the songs are from the '60s, the show itself is the kind you would have experienced in a '60s folk club.
Long Road performs infrequently, by design, and every show includes many songs the group has never performed prior to that one. So catch a Long Road show when you can. For instance, a very good time to see them would be at their next show – wherever that may be.
Long Road has been on hiatus for a while, first because of various members' medical issues and, now, like most other musicians, because of the pandemic. Visit Long Road's website: www.LongRoadMusic.com for more info about the group.
Long Road is: David Budin (guitar, vocals, between-song humor and history); Ray DeForest (bass, vocals); Celia Hollander Lewis (banjo, Celtic harp, autoharp, ukulele, bowed psaltry, hammered dulcimer, recorder, penny whistle, vocals), Charlie Lewis (guitar, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, vocals), and Bob Sandham (acoustic and electric guitars, pedal steel guitar, vocals).
LONG ROAD NEWS:
Watch for future shows.
ALSO ...
Long Road's first CD is out now. It's a recording of a concert. We also have T-shirts available. You can get these things in one or more of several ways. The three most common are:
1. Buy them from the Long Road website: www.LongRoadMusic.com (under the "Store" page).
2. Send $15 per CD or T-shirt to: Long Road, 2195 Delaware Drive, Cleveland Heights, OH 44106; and your CD(s) will be mailed to you.
3. Get them at our shows. (Watch for upcoming shows.)
You can sign up for Long Road’s very irregular and infrequent electronic newsletters – as entertaining as they are edifying. Just send your e-mail address to David Budin at popcycles@sbcglobal.net.
You can also join the “Fans of Long Road” group on Facebook.
Booking& Info
David Budin, PopCycles Productions
216-554-5960
popcycles@sbcglobal.net
