Welcome! Glad you could stop by the Itsthemusic website. Take some time, listen to our music and feel free to comment and sign the guestbook

You can purchase our CD's online just listen to various tracks. If you like what you hear, or even if you don't, we would love to hear from you!

Enjoy your visit and many thanks! -- Bill, Robert, Joe & David.

Changin' My MindCheck out tracks from our new CD:
"Changin' My Mind"

CD is available for purchse online here

Album also available for download on iTunes

 

Review: "...This album is a treat and has something for everyone. The covers are masterfully done and bring something new to already-recognizable tunes. And the original works get the toe tapping and speak directly from the heart of the songwriter. This is a good album to have anywhere -- in the car with the top down, at the beach with a beer or sitting on the back porch, grilling steaks. -- Ben McNeely (North Carolina Journalist)"

 

Back Home Again**10th Anniversary of our first CD**
"Back Home Again"

Free mp3 downloads
20% off Online Purchases through Labor Day!

Album also available on iTunes

All is Calm All is Bright Windy and Warm Windy and WarmAND Check out tracks from Emery & McKnight's CD's:
All is Calm All is Bright", "Windy and Warm", & "Night and Day"

Bruce Emery and his duo partner David McKnight have produced three instrumental performance CDs for your enjoyment.  These contain Bruce's fingerstyle guitar arrangements with David’s masterful embellishments on violin, viola, and mandolin.

Two more CDs in the same vein are in the works, to be titled Here Comes the Sun and Moonglow. "

More information is available from SkepticalGuitarist Publications

New mixes from recent CSSM recording session!

  • "Miners Holiday" - by David McKnight --mp3 - 08/26/2010
  • "Miners Holiday" -- mp3 - 08/30/2010 -**NEW**
  • "When You get Back to Town" - by David McKnight -- mp3 - 07/13/09
  • "Tell Me" - by Robert Smith and Bill Cleaver -- mp3 -11/15/08
  • "Sometimes"- by Jonathan Edwards -- mp3 -07/15/0

New 10th Anniversary Mixes of BHA Tracks!

  • "Lullaby 9109" resurrection! New mix from BHA CD!! - mp3
  • Compare with BHA release mix: Lullaby 9109 - mp3
  • more to come!
 

ItstheMusic NEWS!

New Mixes: August 26, 2010

David McKinght - Miners' Holiday - Mixes...

Miners Holiday 4F-10.mp3 : 08/25/10
Miners Holiday 4F-11.mp3 : 08/26/10
Miners Holiday 4F-12.mp3 : 08/30/10

 

 

Back Home Again

10th Anniversary of 'Back Home Again'

 

 

July 10, 2010 - New Bass player being auditioned for next CSSM Album

Gracie on the Bass

October 23th, 2009- After 8 long years... !!

Cleaver Smith Swenson & McKnight with special guests Karen and Tim Nicholson
 played at Java Divine's Italian Cafe, in Holly Springs, NC, Friday October 16th!

Java Divine Gig Videos

Java Divine Video

  • Tell Me
  • All of Me

 

 

 

 

 

Photo from 9th Street Bakery circa 1987?

CSSM at 9th Street Bakery 1987

photos - Bill Pope

 

ItstheMusic SPORTS!

08-12-2010 - Mid-Summer Ultra Running Report:

Yes its that time of year again... Summertime - when "the livin' is easy" and Ultra-running is high on the agenda. Well, really its the same year round but summer is definitely my favorite running season by far. Long hot days and short cool nights. The usual plan is hopefully to have shed most of my winter hibernation weight in the spring and be fit and healthy enough to run the local PAUSATF races and reconnect with the community of friends I have made over the past 15 years.

This year I had a very late start to the season that normally begins in early February with Jed Smith 50K. This year my first race was Ruth Anderson on April 17th. Usually I run the 100K which I even managed to win last year due to a lack of sufficient competition. And usually the aftermath is some sort of foot or ankle injury due to the abuse from the 14 repetitive loops around Lake Merced in San Francisco. This year I had just gotten back in shape enough to run the shorter 50K which definitely helped on the injury front.

The reason for my late start, what that I had just spent the past 5 1/2 months trying to recover from a left knee injury that put a quick end to my fall racing season last year after a 100 miler in July and two weeks later av 50K which ended in a foot-race the las 2 miles of the race that escalated into an all out sprint with Matt Anderson at the finish - for which I should know by now is the best way to get injured - i.e. sprinting..

Injury is what we all as ultrarunners dread and try to avaoid at all costs. More often than not, when they occur, we usually push them aside as part of the "ordeal" and if they allow us to continue running, deny the injury until it becomes worse and eventually forces us to stop.

I spent most of the late spring and summer of 2009 doing just that. My left knee was experiencing joint swelling and stiffness after only a few miles of easy jogging. This was not good when my maintenence runs are typically 6 - 10 miles and longer weekend training runs are 15 - 25 miles, and all of the races are 30 miles or more. My training runs were not too much of a problem initially. After about 6 to 10 miles the knee would get stiff, but there was never any pain. I did a few longer runs without the swelling getting any more serious. At the end of June I was set to pace "Kap'n Kirk" Boiseree at Western States 100 miler for the 40 miles from Forest Hill to the finish. I had gone for a 30 mile training run with him a few weeks earlier and everythings seemed "OK"... READ MORE...

ITM - Photo Gallery Updates

08-07-2010 - Dillon Beach Weekend

Tomales Point Hike

June 26 2010, Pasadena, CA - Ian and Stephanie's Wedding

...Ian and Stephanie's Wedding

 

Family Photos...

Chris' Photo Download