THE KENEALLIST: Mike Keneally’s acoustic masterpiece Wooden Smoke comes to Bandcamp Friday!
Happy autumn! What better time than now to introduce to our Bandcamp catalogue that most autumnal of Keneally releases, Wooden Smoke?
Once again Bandcamp Friday is upon us (the day when Bandcamp takes no cut of proceeds, it all goes to the artists and labels), and it’s our pleasure to bring Wooden Smoke to our ever-swelling Bandcamp roster.
WOODEN SMOKE
COMES TO BANDCAMP
THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3!
This link to Wooden Smoke goes live at 11:59 p.m. PDT TONIGHT, October 2!
In the meantime, you can click here for a bunch more MK titles…
This acoustic album, by far the mellowest and most willfully soul-soothing of my releases, was originally released in 2002, and proved to be a balm for me personally during a hectic time in my life. We at Exowax were heartened and humbled to learn, at the time of release, that it also provided therapeutic value for some people in the wake of the horrific events in September of the previous year. Perhaps it could provide some similar service for you now?
If you avail yourself of the Bandcamp version of Wooden Smoke, you will find that it has been enhanced with five additional tracks.
Four of these are special new mixes from the multi-tracks that I did for my Patreon subscribers earlier this year, including an improvisation done by me on two pianos and Rick Musallam on one acoustic guitar, music that’s never been released before in any form – other than to my Patreon folks (which, if you’re not one, I am frequently uploading unreleased material there, so you might like to check it out here).
The fifth bonus track is “Wooden Chips,” the edit-collage created by Scott Chatfield as an audio link for keneally.com, back when we made the album originally available. Scott would always make such a collage back when we announced a new album, and they are true time capsules of early ‘00s web-based content.
Your download of Wooden Smoke also comes with a digital booklet and a batch of oddly compelling bonus photos (there’s one at the end of this Keneallist), reviews, and ephemera. As always, we thank you for your support!
MIKE KENEALLY & BEER FOR DOLPHINS
OCTOBER 2025 TOUR of the EAST COAST and the MIDWEST of the USA!
The MK/BFD tour is seriously right around the corner, holy cow!
We just had a couple of fantastic nights at the Baked Potato in LA, and we are feeling entirely prepared to bring the craziness to the East Coast and Midwest in a couple of weeks. It was great fun to once again have Bryan Beller in the ranks – the rhythm-section relationship he and Joe Travers share (they’ve been playing together since the early ‘90s when they were Berklee students together) is unparalleled, as is their comprehension of my music, and they provide the most amazing foundation for the marvelous Rick Musallam and myself to do our respective things.
We’ll be playing in Rutherford NJ, NYC, Annville PA, Cleveland, Fort Wayne, and Chicago from October 12-18. A mere six gigs, but a lot to bite off financially for our hard-driving little band of buckaroos, so please come if you can, and haul a bunch of your friends to the gigs with you. I promise you’ll have a great time.
Opening for us will be the truly superb Dave Bainbridge & Sally Minnear. They wowed me with their set at ProgStock last year. They will perform as a duo on their own set, and for the last half-hour of our set they will also act as honorary Beers For Dolphin, allowing us to play several of my more intricate compositions that rarely if ever get an airing live.
And starting off each evening will be my uber-talented buddy Matt Dorsey, kicking off the festivities with a solo set (and he just might be wandering onto the stage during my set as well).
We start with an October 12 appearance at the ProgStock Festival in Rutherford, NJ – festival passes available here.
October 14 finds us at The Cutting Room in the well-known metropolis of New York City
A venue and city which are new to us, The Allen Theater in Annville, PA, plays host to our shenanigans on October 15. I have now seen some footage of the interior of this place and it looks fantastic – we’d love to have a good crowd at this gig!
Fun times of no small velocity await us all on October 16 at the Beachland Tavern in beloved Cleveland.
I eagerly anticipate returning to play at the Sweetwater performance venue in Fort Wayne on October 17 – I played there with ProgJect a couple of years ago and had a fantastic time.
We conclude this whirlwind trip by returning to visit our good pals at Reggies in Chicago on October 18.
I really don’t manage to get my band out of California very often, and I’d love to do it more often, and some good attendance at these gigs will make it far more likely that that can happen. Please come join us if you can!
THANK YOU!
You are an extraordinary person and I thank you profusely for your attention and kindness and support!
Love,
Wooden Smoke goes live at 11:59 p.m. PDT TONIGHT, October 2!
Hey! Check out the rest of Mike Keneally’s mind-blowing creations at Bandcamp!
