How/Why They Named a Street, In Recognition of my music by Steve April on The Pipeline at IndieMusicPeople

How/Why They Named a Street, In Recognition of my music
Big project over, thank the Lord, help moving my mother from one assisted living facility to another. She’s 94 years old. Brother and sister helping also, along with the movers. What a project!!!

My brother and I took a break, and took the pix below. April Lane, April Place, how /why they named 2 streets in recognition of my music.

April Lane, April Place, two new streets 1/4 mile or so from where I lived. (also about 1/4 mile from where I live now, having moved)

What an experience. Hard to believe it at first. This was 2011.

A bit of a back story...the neighborhood received a complaint or two about my music. For example, I was told there was a complaint about the song image for my song "The Cat, The Moon, and The Songbird..." (still visible on my artist page).

A real estate agent who was among those who I dealt with, when selling my mother's house (who I helped take care of at the time), told me "they named a street after your music." "Are you joking?," I replied. A land developer liked it, a new development was being built, expanding the neighborhood, with a new street, April Lane,and also April Place, with a little garden. I walked out to view the street signs, and almost cried.

In recognition of my music…(the pix up on my artist page.). HUMBLY, Steve

(BIG THANKS TO IAC/IMP, the main platform/showcase for my music

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SILVERWOODSTUDIO

6/23/2018 9:04:06 PM

That's pretty cool Steve----My Folks have moved to the next realm but up on the hIlls in Christchurch City NZ-----there is a Barrer Lane named after my Dad !

Kinda Special I reckon-----glad for you bro'

Rob

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Steve April

6/23/2018 10:26:42 PM

Yo, Rob...

Good to hear from you. Remember ye good ol days, on IAC, when happenin' songs were everywhere, and folks were friendly and participatory lol...

Great core group here tho. I've been MIA, helping my mother move. I'm traumatized lol...

in music, bro! and best to Leo and Jake and all the Silverwooders...

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Bryon Tosoff

6/23/2018 11:26:52 PM

Great Story Steve, thanks for sharing, and hope you and your family are glad to have found your mom a fine place to live, indeed it is a challenge and traumatic relocating a loved one to a different place.

cheers, and keep bringing your fine groovin' muse to our home here at IMP

bryon

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Larree

6/24/2018 1:44:31 AM

Stoner Ave, Los Angeles mofo's!

https://www.google.com/maps/search/stoner+ave+los+angeles/@34.0262787,-118.4606006,14z/data=!3m1!4b1

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SILVERWOODSTUDIO

6/24/2018 10:31:40 PM

Greetings Bryon, Larree Steve

All big IAC stars in those golden years --- missing but still remembered Hugo, Sam, Muriel, Auset, Gina, Woody, Steve, Dick, Jesse, Pip and Merry, Greta V, Anjuli and Ash-----plus many more

Rock on !!

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6/25/2018 12:57:20 AM

Gina is still involved. Which Steve do you mean?

I've tried to invite most of them back, you can't really expect that some folks won't move on you know.

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Shoe City Sound

6/25/2018 9:52:10 AM

That's a great honor - and great names for streets!

D

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Stoneman

6/25/2018 3:48:17 PM

Wow! That is so cool Steve!

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Steve April

6/26/2018 9:20:23 PM ---- Updated 6/27/2018 3:06:40 AM

Yah, a friend of mine wrote in encouragin' tones, "Congratulations on becoming part of the literary landscape! You have created a lyric neighborhood."

That's very nice, Rob, cool to hear you're back in the saddle, Stoneman, Bryon my collabro bro, Dolores, Scott, Larree, we all labor in the music vineyards, don't we?

Recently, I was reacquainting myself with "Visions of Joanna", the Dylan song, "madonna she still has not showed/we see the empty cage now corrode/her cape of the stage overflows/the fiddler now steps to the road/writing 'everything's been returned that was owed'/on the back of a fish truck that loads/while my conscience explodes...

Harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
and these visions of Joanna are now all that remain."

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Psyche's Muse

6/27/2018 2:38:37 AM

CONGRATULATIONS! STEVE!
You have Truly been Honored!
And your Mother is 94???
You have Truly been Blessed!

and OMG Yes! -All Of Those!!!
...good ol' Hugo!
and Ash Ferry too!

I'll add some "Brian Booth" to that bunch! -M-

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Steve April

6/27/2018 3:13:47 AM ---- Updated 6/30/2018 5:19:30 PM

Yah, thanks for reminding me.

Rob's list is a good one, but darn I miss Brian Booth, whose stations were among the first to represent a broad swath of indie music, w grand reviews, also larz boah, who also wrote great reviews, and albert Gonzales, with his station 'the talent searcher,' and grand reviews and a sense of humor. Brian rocks on with the karmics, a very talented band, on this site.

The chroniclers, from yore, gone but not forgotten...

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Psyche's Muse

6/27/2018 5:00:53 AM

Wow! Brian "Booth" is a part of the "karmics"??? Cool! LOVE THEIR STUFF!!!

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Steve April

6/30/2018 5:19:11 PM

Here's a review from larz boah, and his station Musical Puppets inna Galaxy, on m'Steve April collabros page, with Steve son...

"Even after their FiNaL cUrTaIn cALL, Ison & April bring back all the rage of their day: The Hilton Sisters and despite all the unscrupulous characters who took advantage of them, really were a couple of nice girls joined at the hip." added to station 5/7/2008 8:54:23 AM

http://www.indiemusicpeople.com/stationGen.aspx?stationID=2358, Great station, I recommend it. (great indie songs there)

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SILVERWOODSTUDIO

7/1/2018 6:20:36 PM

Hi again

Scott-----I was thinking of Steve Morton, lovely guy who died too young----I am FB friends with many of those artists I mentioned so I'm not complaining dude

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