Good Music

My daughter Katie's boyfriend Tony Schaffer is a guitar player who plays with a really talented singer/songwriter named Chris Castle. If there were any justice in the music business, you would be hearing them on the radio but, alas, there isn't and they continue to struggle on in relative obscurity. The cool thing about both of them, however, is that they are in it for the love of the music and not the money. They recently recorded a CD at Levon Helm's studio in Woodstock, New York (Levon was the drummer for the legendary rock band The Band and has recorded many other great albums in his own right.) They have played numerous times at The Ark in Ann Arbor, toured the east coast several times and play frequently in Cleveland as well.

I'm a guitar player myself and used to do the singer/songwriter thing, playing in bars in my younger days- nowadays I only play in church and with a band associated with Kairos prison ministry. The thing I find really cool about Chris and Tony's music is that it is the same type of music I played at their age and, when I watch them play, it really takes me back. They are, it must be noted, much better than I ever was. If you like the video attached, check out Chris's web site www.dirtsandwich.com. P.S. Tony (my daughter's boyfriend) is the one in the middle.