Here is a sampling of music from a CD that I made for Flip a few years ago, as a wedding present.

Click the green links for Real Audio reductions of the music on the CD.

This is a 3 part gif anim made from some pictures of Flip and Joe playing at PSGW a few years ago, that I found on Doug Nelsen's window sill.

 

This collection of music is a composed of entirely unrehearsed and under-produced live recordings of music played by Flip Breskin and her big brother, me (Joe Breskin) in a variety of living room-type settings. Some pieces were recorded at our father’s house on the occasion of his 78th birthday, others were recorded at PSGW outdoors on a weekend afternoon, and a few were recorded in a quiet room in a froiend's house with no one present but the two of us. It exists on this CD because I realized that John Jackson , a most wonderful musician from Falls Church, Virginia and his companion Trish, might enjoy a peek at the "heart music" Flip and I play together. And so I told him I would put a disc together for them. The most wonderful thing I have ever heard said about this music is that sometimes it sounds like we are both finding the song in the same place in our hearts. Hence the name for what we do: Sibling Revelry. This does not mean that our lives as siblings have always been full of revelry, but somehow, when we found we could access each others hearts through this music, most of the other crap that came with growing up in the same house in an American suburb in the second half of the 20th century simply melted away. Many of these tracks were recorded the first time we had ever tried to play the tune together, and one was the first time either of us had ever played it, so this counts as hard-core anti-production. It is my position that listening skills are far more important than most other playing skills, and that practice can never make anything perfect. Flip has spent the greater part of the past 25 years teaching others how to play and how to teach music. She publishes a collection of hot tips everymonth called Flip's Pix and she teaches guitar at music camps around the west, many of which she helped design. Looking back on the last 10 years of my life I can honestly say that the bravest thing anyone has done for me was when she made it "O.K." for me to come to her guitar camp, knowing that my appearance in her world would change her relationship with a great many people. Every once in while we "play out" as we are going to do on a whirlwind tour through Eastern Washinton in early September.

A series of musical snapshots collected over the years.   Here is a shot of Flip and me as "young people" with our exhaulted house-guest, Libba Cotton, at our parents' house when Libba was staying there, back in 1973./P> Flip and me in the Fireside Room at PSGW -

The links below will get you music or pictures or in some cases, sheet music. Except the MP3 downloads, which will have to wait until late at night to get transferred to the new server

* That's mom singing with Flip on Maggie and a few other songs.

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I'll put another sequence of us playing down here, as soon as I find one