“Just plain folk?.. Not here.”

Sons/summer/studio/songs/spring 2023

Well we can’t help ourselves, we started a new album yesterday. An embarrassment of riches has landed in our laps again (psst, folks songs don’t really make you rich). We just have too many new songs to leave in the shoebox (it’s not a great storage solution, but Deb used all of our Tupperware for leftover kale). What are 3 songwriters supposed to do with these many musings, except to put them on a record for the 10’s of people crying out for a new Sons of the Never Wrong release?

What’s it gonna sound like? Hmmm, a great question dear reader… we don’t have a clue. But it is in the doing, singing, writing, rehearsing, recording, and spatting that we find out what this new batch of songs will tell us. A wonky art form to be sure, full of surprises and odd rhymes.

What’s the title? Slow down man, we just started!

How long does it take? Oddly we have noticed over the years that the recording process takes us about 9 – 15 months. That’s as long as a human takes to have a human baby… or a giraffe takes to have a giraffe baby.

What is the first song you recorded for this project? We don’t even know the title of the first song dammit. But it starts with Deb singing the line – ‘clouds are moving through the window, it’s a worst case metaphor’… Oh man, what’s gonna happen next?

Will there be guest artists again? Yeah… we don’t want to play ALL the chords ourselves! So far Sue’s talented nephew Walker came to visit and we forced him to play piano on a song he didn’t know, and he graciously made the song better in an instant. 

How do you decide which songs to put on an album? We don’t know the answer. It’s a math problem…and folk singers aren’t good at math. That’s one of the reasons we are folk singers. 

We have bunches of gigs this summer, chances to meet you dear readers, opportunities to play the new tunes to be recorded, chances to do what Bruce has said all along – sing the songs that the universe taps on our shoulders. Love Sue, Deb, & Bruce – sons

Fall 2022

Sons is prepping for a few gigs to celebrate our 30th anniversary, we rehearse new and old songs, eat donuts and kale, and wonder where the time has gone. 30 years ago, Sue & Nancy Walker went to a round robin singer/songwriter night at the Beat Kitchen to hear 3 performers; Bucky Halker, Ralph Covert, and a dorky songwriter in sear-sucker shorts and a bow tie named Bruce Roper. That year we smooshed a trio together, dreamed something dreamy, Bruce named the band, we culled together a sound system from wires and duct tape and brought it to a newly opened Uncommon Ground where we played 3 hour sets three or four times a month, all while standing in front of the twirling cake display and the steaming cappuccino machine. 6 years and a bunch of gigs later, Nancy went on to her groovy solo career and we were blessed to meet artist/musician extrodinaire – Deb. She introduced us to her 2 little boys, a host of beautiful tunes and her lush harmony singing. Deb’s boys are grown men, Bruce is a grampa, Sue is gray, and 30 years later we celebrate all the wacky tours, new & old musical collaborations, dancers dancing, tapes, CD’s, albums, festivals, and a jillion stories that remind us how lucky we are to have found one another and all the folks we have gotten to make music for and with. We are grateful. We are still writing songs about love, mermaids, birds, kites, girls, babies, donuts and kale. Life goes on in endless song, how can we keep from singing?