NYC Indie Pioneer George Usher I Stevensonville

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

Music Interviews, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 107 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Veteran New York singer/songwriter George Usher returns to action with a new album that's been some 30 years in the making, Stevensonville. Twelve original songs, each about a citizen of the fictional town of the album is named for. Each is accompanied by a full color illustration and lyrics collected in a 12" x 12" 28-page booklet. This is a limited edition, individually numbered 12" LP vinyl pressing of 200, being released March 20 by Strothard Bulldog Productions. Stevensonville is a 12-part illustrated song-cycle that delves into the myriad goings on in its namesake locale. Each song and illustration represents a different inhabitant of Stevensonville. They sometimes reference each other in the manner of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology or Thornton Wilder's Our Town. The characters who people dark, repressed Stevensonville have their own very unusual and pressing issues to cope with, before they can gamble on leaving. George Usher's poetic lyrics and folk-rock and chamber pop musical settings combine with Laurie Webber's colorful, magnetic illustrations for a stunning, unique presentation. Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/0t2r3lAo89AALlzzvpmwwr?si=vdtz4wXLRKWdGjaX3IThsg social media www.Instagram.com/george.usher About Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris The Music Matters Podcast is hosted by Darrell Craig Harris, a globally published music journalist, professional musician, and Getty Images photographer. Music Matters is now available on Spotify, iTunes, Podbean, and more. Each week, Darrell interviews renowned artists, musicians, music journalists, and insiders from the music industry. Currently, 870,000 global downloads in over 40 countries. Visit us at: www.MusicMattersPodcast.com Follow us on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/musicmattersdh For inquiries, contact: musicmatterspodcastshow@gmail.com Support our mission via PayPal: www.paypal.me/payDarrell voice over intro by Nigel J. Farmer

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0:00.0	Welcome to Music Matters podcast with Daryl Craig Harris, talking about all things music
0:09.6	with celebrities, artists, music business insiders, and more.
0:22.5	George Hesher, how are you doing today? I'm doing fine, thank you, Daryl, how are you doing today?
0:25.0	I'm doing fine, thank you, dear. How are you?
0:33.1	I'm very good. So you are in New York City. I think you mentioned the West Village, which is, that's one of my favorite areas of New York.
0:38.7	Originally a Cleveland guy, and I think, when did you originally move to New York?
0:41.2	I moved in 1977.
0:43.8	Wow. I wanted time to move to New York, right?
0:49.5	Yeah, it was really exciting. I mean, when I moved here, it was such a different New York.
0:59.5	It was a time when there were real neighborhoods and neighborhoods you had to stay out of.
1:00.0	Right.
1:08.3	You might walk, you might walk two blocks that way and be in real danger or walk two blocks this way.
1:12.3	It might be an Italian neighborhood, four blocks that way. it'd be a black neighborhood, but they were real neighborhoods. And one of the things that I really miss
1:19.8	from that time was the, or were the mom and pop stores. Because with the real neighborhoods,
1:31.5	you had real people living here and they had their stores and it wasn't so homogenized so that now you have you can go 10 blocks and you see
1:41.8	the same stores you know it's the chain stores and a lot of the mom and pop places have gone.
1:50.3	And because it's hard for, let's say, the average person to actually live in Manhattan.
1:59.1	They were, over the years,
2:04.4	they've been squeezed out first into Queens and Brooklyn,
2:06.9	some out to Staten Island,
2:10.5	but people sort of hesitate to go out to Staten Island.
2:12.2	Now out to the Bronx,
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