Everything Is Moving / Green Moon
Initial work on these two songs began as early as 2013, but Casal who started his career as a prolific singer/songwriter with 14 albums to his name before becoming the lead guitarist in Ryan Adams & The Cardinals and later the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, as well as his own successful instrumental band, Circles Around the Sun, was never able to complete the recordings prior to his passing in August 2019.
Over the course of 2020, Casal’s close friends and longtime musical collaborators Jeff Hill, Jon Graboff, John Ginty, George Sluppick, Jena Kraus, JP Hesser and Jim Scott came together to add additional parts and complete mixing on the tracks.
Recorded at The Stable at Studio G in Williamsburg, Brooklyn circa February 2013, the band on these initial sessions featured Casal on acoustic guitar and vocals, Jon Graboff on acoustic guitar, Jeff Hill on bass and Joe Russo on drums. Additional parts were cut in July 2020 w/ Graboff returning to play pedal steel and electric guitar, John Ginty adding piano and Hammond B-3 organ and harmony vocals contributed by Hill and Jena Kraus. Neal’s old friend @rayfoleynyc made this beautiful video for “Everything Is Moving”, using footage he shot years ago of Neal and also using some of the footage @piperferguson shot for Neal’s video for “Sweeten The Distance” back in 2011.
“Working on these songs has been truly cathartic for me as I continue to process the loss of my dear friend. Neal writes in ‘Everything Is Moving,’ ‘I am just a shadow on the wall, one day you won’t think of me at all.’ As much as Neal’s lyrics can be eerily prophetic of the tragedy to come, he was so wrong. So many of us will be thinking of Neal for decades to come.”
— Jeff Hill
Photo by Neal Casal
Green Moon
Neal recorded “Green Moon” at Castaway 7 Studios near his home in Ventura, CA in the summer of 2016, laying down lead and background vocals, acoustic and electric guitars and piano. Jeff Hill and George Sluppick would add bass and drum tracks respectively to the original recording in October 2020 to complete the song.
Limited Edition 7-inch Vinyl & Bundles
Neal Casal's solo recordings, "Everything Is Moving" and "Green Moon" are available as a 7-inch vinyl pre-order, and can now be downloaded and streamed across all music platforms.
