John Speziale

I’m baaahck! I have been recovering the last three months from foot surgery while my site ran into some technical trouble and needed a bit of surgery itself. Thanks to Jake Denham for the new design and the great new features. We’re pretty sure you’ll find this new, improved site to be [...]

Watch John perform his song, Sweet Mercy, live at his CD Launch show in Gloucester, MA. Video provided by Jim Ross.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the website. Sorry for the wait, but we wanted everything to be just right.
Applause, please, for Jacob Denham, who designed the site and is putting in long hours to make it work. This kid is tops, that’s all I can say.
I want to thank all those friends and fans who [...]

Obama’s historic victory signals a new, brighter direction for our country. Let’s help to make it a victory over bad feelings as well as a victory over bad policy. Let’s take the words of John McCain’s very classy concession speech to heart, finding a common ground.
Thanks to those of you who commented on my blog. [...]

Quickstar Productions has chosen John’s song, “Mondo Condo” to appear on its CD, “Chill Out,” a compilation of songs by East Coast acoustic acts. This CD will be available to fans soon on a first-come, first-serve basis. It will also be available to download. We’ll keep you posted on the details. Stay tuned to this [...]

Barack Obama has been scoring some hefty endorsements from prominent members of the right, among them Colin Powell, journalists Christopher Buckley and Christopher Hitchens, and even Ken Adelman, the man who introduced Dick Cheney to Paul Wolfowitz. These respected righties seem to have decided that Obama’s, rather than McCain’s, temperament is better suited to [...]

Singer/songwriter John Speziale’s “Forest for the Trees” charted at number 69 on the “Neil Young Living with War” website…
John said that topical or protest songs, “are difficult to write well. It takes a lot of artistry to keep them from sounding whiney.” Another problem is that what is current one month might not be the [...]

Thanks to everyone who helped my song “Forest for the Trees” top out at number 69 (out of some 2500 or more songs) on Neil Young’s Living With War site. I have stopped checking the chart now, after, I admit, not being able to find it last week! We had a very good run, and [...]

Five video tracks are now available here on the site. Just scroll down this page and click the YouTube tab over on the right to view performances from the Gloucester, MA, CD Launch. Musicians featured on the videos include…
… Kevin Barry on guitar, Richard Gates on bass, Dave Mattacks on drums, Larry Luddecke on keyboards, [...]

 
The new album received a more or less tepid review in “The Noise,” a Boston music zine. Oh, well. You can check it out at http://www.thenoise-boston.com/content/view/123/10/. While you’re there also check out Rita and Lolita’s column at http://www.thenoise-boston.com/content/view/124/10/1/3/ (Saint Paddy Whack) wherein a number of Boston area “luminaries” — including yours truly — recount tales of Saint Patrick’s [...]