Micah: Tour 09/Songs/Press

Songs List: 2009

Originals:

Tropical Hibernation
Last Keys Critter
The Trial of Miles
Beautiful Evening
Barstool Sailing
Defiant Tree
Nursery Rhyme
Worth the Time
The BC
Dog on a Chain
Shipwreck
Green Flash
Over and Over
Shutters
Tan Girl
Blink
Night Fishing
Tidal Wave Dave vs. Big Moe
Humphrey the Manatee
Drive
Califloridian
How Can You Tell
Ever
Castle
Jimmy Lime
Days Go By
Wind
Hero
Speak to Me
3 Months Free
Flagler Café
Rich Man
Glass of Water
Always
Low On Money
High on Life
Walking Down this Road

















Covers

A

Ryan Adams
Two
Sweet Carolina

Allman Brothers
Melissa
Blue Sky

America
Sister Golden Hair

Louie Armstrong
Wonderful World

B
Band
Up on Cripple Creek
The Weight

Bare Naked Ladies
Shoe Box
Brian Wilson
Old Apt
Life in a Nutshell
Yoko One
Beatles
Day in the Life
Rocky Raccoon
In My Life
We can work it out
Dear Prudence
I Will
Bungaloo Bill
Eleanor Rigby

Harry Belafonte
Jump in the Line
Day O
Man Smart, Woman Smarter

Bodeans
Closer to Free

Garth Brooks
The Dance
The River
Friends in Low Places

Jimmy Buffett -

The Great Filling Station Hold Up
I Have Found Me A Home
Railroad Lady
Death of An Unpopular Poet
He Went to Paris
Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit
Cuban Crime of Passion
Why Don’t we Get Drunk
Peanut Butter Conspiracy
Barometer Soup
They Don’t Dance Like Carmen
Door # 3
A Pirate Looks At Forty
Migration
Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season
Nautical Wheelers
Tin Cup Chalice
Pencil Thin Mustache
Come Monday
Livingston’s Gone Texas
The Wino and I Know
Changes in Lat/Atts
Wonder Why We Ever Go Home
Tampico Trauma
Margaritaville
In the Shelter
Biloxi
Miss You So Badly
Son of a Son of a Sailor
Cheeseburger in Paradise
Coast of Marseilles
Manana
Coconut Telegraph
Boat Drinks
Fins
Volcano
Havana Daydreamin’
The Captain and The Kid
That’s What Living is To Me
5 o’clock Somewhere
Jolly Mon
Capt N Kid
My Head Hurts My Feet Stink

C

Johnny Cash
Folsom Prison
Boy Named Sue
Ring of Fire

Eric Clapton
Running on Faith
Nobody Know You
Wonderful Tonight

Jimmy Cliff
Many Rivers to Cross
Harder They Come
Sitting Here in Limbo

Patsy Cline
She’s Got You

Leonard Cohen
The Future

Sam Cooke
Another Saturday Night

CCR
Bad Moon Rising
Who will Stop the Rain
Jim Croce
Time in a Bottle
Bad Bad Leroy Brown

CSN
Southern Cross

D

John Denver
Leaving on a Jet Place
Country Roads
Disney
Jungle Book
Under the Sea

Dave Mathews Band
Lie in Graves
Say Goodbye
Lover Lay Down
Ants Marching
Best of Whats Around

Drivin’ and Cryin’
Straight to Hell

Bob Dylan
Along the Watchtower
Don’t think Twice
Knockin On Heaven
Easy Chair
Times They are a Changing
Like A Rolling Stone

E
Eagles
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Hotel California

F

Fleetwood Mac
Don’t Stop
Monday Morning
Second Hand News
Landslide


G

Peter Gabriel
Solsbury Hill

Mary Gauthier
Mercy Now


Steve Goodman
City of New Orleans
This Hotel Room

Grateful Dead
Ripple
Scarlet Begonias
Fire on the Mountain
Franklins Tower
He’s gone
Dire Wolf
Broken Down Palace
Cosmic Charlie
I know you rider
Uncle John’s Band
Friend of the Devil
St. Stephen
Till the Morning Comes
Jack A Roe
Bird Song
Iko Iko

David Gray
Babylon
Silver Lining
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
Sail Away

Woody Guthrie
No Depression
This Land is Your Land
Hard Ain’t It Hard

H

Ben Harper
Steal My Kisses
Glory and Consequence

Dan Hicks and His Hot Lick
Is this My Happy Home
How Can I Miss You if you Won’t go Away
It’s Not My Time to Go
Traffic Jam


I
Isley Brothers
Shout

J
Jack Johnson
Bubble Toes
Mud Football
Flake
Taylor
Inaudible Melodies
Posters
Better Together
Banana Pancakes
Rodeo Clowns

Jack O Pierce
Vineyard
Next Year
Mungo Jerry
In the Summertime

Billy Joel
You may be Right
Old the Good Die Young

Elton John
Daniel

K

Kingston Trio -
Scotch N Soda
Tom Dooley
Kinks
Sunny Afternoon
Lola

L

Ray Lamontogne
Three More Days

John Lennon
Imagine

Led Zepplin
Hey Hey

Little River Band
Cool Change

Lyle Lovett
If I had a Boat

Lynard Skynard
Sweet Home Alabama
Ballad of Curtis Loew

M

Bob Marley
One Love
Jammin
Three Little Birds
Mellow Mood

Ziggy Marley
Dragonfly
True to Myself

Marshall Tucker Band
Fire on the Mountain

Matchbox 20
3AM
Push

Steve Miller
Joker
Take the Money

John Mellencamp
Hurts So Good
Jack and Diane
Little Pink Houses

Men at Work
Down Under
Overkill

Monkees
I’m a Believer

Jason Mraz
Curbside Prophet
I’m Yours

Don McClean
American Pie

Roger Miller
King of the Road

N

Fred Neil
Everybody’s Talkin

Matt Nathanson
Come and Get Higher

Willie Nelson
Mama’s Don’t Let Your Babies

Nine Inch Nails
Head Like a Hole
O

Old Crow Medicine Show
Wagon Wheel

Otis Redding
Dock of the Bay
Oasis
Wonderwall
P

Pearl Jam
Elderly Woman

Tom Petty
Runnin Down a Dream
You Don’t Know
Last Dance Mary Jane
Yer So Bad

Phish
Waste
Fee
Wolf man Brother
Bouncing Around the Room

Pink Floyd
Brain Damage

John Prine
All the Best
Sam Stone
In Spite of Ourselves
Angel from Montgomery
Dear Abbey
Spanish Pipedream
Love is Real
Illegal Smile
Please don’t bury Me
Same Thing Happened to Me


Wilson Pickett
In the Midnight Hour

Pure Praire League
Amie

Q

R
Radio Head – Fake Plastic Trees

Rolling Stones
Wild Horses
Dead Flowers

Jimmy Rogers
In the Jailhouse

S

Bob Seger
Night Moves
You’re Still the Same

Sister Hazel
All for You
Starfish

Paul Simon
Call Me Al
Slip Sliding Away
Me and Julio
Duncan
Mrs. Robinson

Todd Snider
Alright Guy
Beer Run
Carla
Vinyl Records

Statler Brothers
Flowers on the Wall
Stuck in the Middle

Cat Stevens
Wild World
Father N Son

Stone Temple Pilots
Plush

Sublime
What I Got
Badfish
Ball and Chain
Steel Train
Don’t Push
5446 That’s My #


T

James Taylor
Sweet Baby James
Fire and Rain
Carolina In My Mind
You Got a Friend
Something in the Way

U
U2
One Tree Hill

V
Van Morrison
Into the Mystic
Brown Eyed Girl
And It Stoned Me
Tupelo Honey
Gloria
Moondance

W


Tom Waits
Shiver Me Timber
Heart of Saturday Night
Old’ 55
Ween
Piss Up a Rope
Bananas and Blow

Hank Williams
Hey Good Looking
Wilco
Jesus Etc.
Theologians
The Late Greats
Company on My Back
California Stars
Found Him
Passenger Side

X


Y
Neil Young
Rockin the Free World
Needle and Damage
Old Man
Hey Hey My My
Heart of Gold

Z

Rocky Top
Outlaw
Gin and Juice

Leaving August 2nd for ...

Karma Truck barrels down scene


By Claudia Miller L'Attitudes Contributor
Posted-Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:20 AM EDT Email this story
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Micah Gardner, Nick Kimball, Luke Ptomey and Alex Caldwell are Karma Truck. Check out Gardner’s latest CD, ‘The Backside of Sunrise,’ at www.cdbaby.com.

New band has some familiar singing faces

If you've been keeping up with Micah Gardner (www.islandmicah.com) this season, you'll know that he's started a new band called Karma Truck with Nick Kimball, Luke Ptomey and Alex Caldwell. The band's been a fixture up at Rum Runner's (mile marker 84, 664-2321) every Thursday night from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. The crowd has been steadily growing over the months, and they now have avid fans (I count myself as one).

I recently interviewed Micah and Nick about the creation of Karma Truck and their plans for the band, including their upcoming tour of the north.

L'Attitudes: Why the name Karma Truck?


Micah: My brother Greg and I played as Karma Truck for about a decade. I've been driving the name around for a while but the passengers have been different. It goes back to the philosophy that you should do good things, be good people. If you don't, karma will run you over. I think that's a fitting name for the kind of music that we're playing, the crowd that we're going after and the vibe of the people we love to hang out with.

L'Attitudes: What kind of crowd are you going after?

Micah: People who want to have a good time but want to be aware of what's going on in the world - good people. You're not going to see too many mosh pits at our shows. Our audience gravitates to the hippie side of life. I like hippie. I like that kind of energy where you don't have to always worry about somebody getting into a fight.




Nick: We get a lot of environmentally friendly people and bluegrass people. We have a very wide variety of fans-young, old, lawyers, bikers, kids.

L'Attitudes: How would you describe the sound of Karma Truck?

Micah: We call it Islandgrass-a combination of island folk and mountain bluegrass.




L'Attitudes: What do you each bring to the group?

Nick: Micah's songs tell a story.

Micah: I'll create a different identity for myself to tell the story through because I'm not brave enough to put myself in the shoes of the person singing, but if there's hope or some sort of positive emotion in there, it's kind of cool.




Nick: My lyrics are a lot more personal and emotional, so with our powers combined...

Micah: Like Wonder Twins.

Nick: We can tell a story, have it be a fun song and also have a touch of personal identity as well.

Micah: Alex is easy to be in a band with. He's the lead singer of a band up in Miami called Flavella, and he plays Flute in an alternative rock band... very different from Karma Truck where he plays bass guitar to island bluegrass. Luke is one of the most talented drummers in the Upper Keys. He's heading to the Berkeley School of Music in Boston next fall. His drum solos kick ass.

L'Attitudes: What are your plans for creating new songs?

Nick: We're going to cuddle a lot.

Micah: I'm into feet.

Nick: Which is good because mine are kind of dry.

Micah: I have quite a few unfinished songs, and Nick has a bunch of songs that he's in the middle of too. Maybe at some point we'll overlap those and get ideas from each other to finish them.

Nick: I see our music coming together for the first time, and it's going to be a unique mix. I see it developing and our sound changing as we get older. I'm a little nervous to call it one thing. Actually, I think the name for our new album should be “Motion Lotion” [singing] motion lotion, I love that potion.

Micah: He doesn't stop. It's like this all the time. You've never heard him speak on the microphone? It's funny. I have to hold him back.

L'Attitudes: How do you keep the crowd engaged at your shows?

Micah: I'm one of those people who, I always want everybody to have a good time, because if they are, I am. So I'm constantly scanning the crowd and reading it. If somebody has a look on their face like they're just not digging it, then, I try to ask them, what do you want to hear? I think if you're getting paid to go to a bar and entertain and make the bar or club money, then you've got to be flexible enough to play to the crowd - make them happy.

L'Attitudes: You play any covers at your shows?

Micah: As little as possible, but definitely - you have to do covers. We do creative covers. People who don't listen to the radio are going to like our covers. If you listen to the radio, you probably aren't going to have even heard the song before. I like to do a reggae version of “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath.

L'Attitudes: What kind of music has influenced your work?

Micah: We're both huge Wilco fans. That music changed my life. It's the most honest music that I've heard in a while. Their approach is so poetic. Jeff Tweddy's voice for me, you think it's going to fall apart every song. But somehow he always makes it through. He's got the kind of voice like an old man telling a story.

Nick: That's why we want to start smoking a lot of cigarettes. And drinking whiskey.

Micah: We could gargle with sand. I have a whole back yard full. We both listen to a lot of different kinds of music and study it, as opposed to just whatever's on.

L'Attitudes: What are your plans for traveling this summer?

Nick: We're not playing on any of the actual stages or anything, but we'll be set up in the parking lot at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee.

Micah: I think we need to get some really cheap guitars and the last night have like, guitar wars and smash them. Actually, Nick and I are headed up to Maine for July through October.

Nick: I know a plethora of musicians in Maine, and we're hoping that between all of those people and the two of us, we'll have some sort of combination - maybe even an acoustic thing-percussionist, stand up bass, banjo - or we might find a bass player and a drummer and really rock out.

L'Attitudes: Where will you be playing?

Micah: Festivals, outdoor venues, cities, bars, clubs, coffee house, back yards.

Nick: Bar mitzvahs.

Micah: Weddings.

Nick: I want to play clubs - bars that I know in Maine that are hippie dives with a lot of folk musicians.

Micah: I'll play anywhere. I just like to play. It's music, and it's a good time. I think it's pretty rare that you meet another musician that has ideas and values life the same way and has morals and ethics, things that aren't always found these days. I'm stoked.

Nick: We've both done so many crazy jobs, and here we are getting together finally and playing tunes. It's kind of funny.

Micah: If this doesn't work out, I'm going to be one of those guys carving coconuts into manatees and selling them for $3 on the side of the road.

Nick: I'm going to become a stripper.

L'Attitudes: What do you want to bring back with you when you come home next season?

Nick: Our goal for the summer is to write and record a new album and hopefully have it ready for next season.

Micah: I know that for me, I'm going to start writing stuff that's a little more global minded. I'd like to start hitting on things that make people think about the bigger picture because I'm just in that stage of my writing. Plus, you can only sing about a palm tree so many times. You've got to sing about the pine tree.

Nick: He has a lot of songs about palm trees, and I have a lot of songs about pine trees. We're going to have to start making our own trees.

Micah: Crossbreeding trees.

Nick: We think Virginia's the best place to plant them.

Micah Gardner has an immediate presence as he takes to his Tiki hut stage. Laid-back and comfortable, yet committed as he sets up his own personally painted gear. He readies himself and his crowd with a tender voice and a kind laugh. They head down highway A1A picking up each Key that turns into a memory, a character. The good old days of conch trains, seaplanes, and childlike adventures in a 14 foot McKee blend with the kayak trips that take a dip down beside the mangroves. This ain’t no Rocky Mountain High, the Flats are king here and the ocean his queen. Micah breaths life into the “Most Southern Point” with a mix of the Caribbean calling and a folk side following. He is the sunrise on the fishing trip, the laughter at a cook out, and the turquoise-blue water that brings you home.