Category: music

With Deadheads flocking to the Bay Area for the 60th anniversary celebration concerts in Golden Gate Park, I marked the occasion by crossing the bridge to San Leandro for a return to the annual Cleveland St. Block Party. I didn’t pull any Dead songs out of my hat, but instead played a short set of mostly original numbers.

For the record, the last time I played on Cleveland St. was in 2006, with StationWagon.

Set list: Rock-n-Roll Oasis, That’s Alright (Best Is Yet to Come), You Never Know, Eating in My Car Again, Angel from Montgomery, Gimme a Silver Dollar, Sunflower Sunday, Alcatraz, Magnolia, E Is for Elephant, Speak Your Mind.

Here are the opening lines from Today Artists 7/1/25 review of my live album at Tiny Telephone.

Greg Roensch presents a unique live experience with Rock-n-Roll Oasis: Live at Tiny Telephone, features Jules Leyhe and Elisa Wendell.

In an era where studio perfection often outweighs raw emotion, Greg Roensch leans into vulnerability with his newly released album Rock-n-Roll Oasis: Live at Tiny Telephone. The project, recorded live with an intimate studio audience, brings together storytelling, spontaneity, and live musical energy in a way that feels personal and resonant.

Read the full review here.

Listen to the album on Bandcamp, Spotify, or wherever you get your music online.

Thanks a ton to Jules Leyhe for hosting and playing awesome guitar (as always) at our super-cozy duo show at his new studio in Oakland, California. We played new songs, old songs, love songs, doom and gloom songs, and more. As one attendee commented afterwards, “it was wonderful… the most fun I’ve had in years!”

Huge thanks also to Danielle Goldsmith for capturing the show with her mobile recording gear.

Set List: Front Row Seat*, Rock-n-Roll Oasis, Doomscrolling in Paradise, You Think U Got Something to Say*, Magnolia (J. J. Cale), Gimme a Silver Dollar*, You Never Know, Eating in My Car Again, Sunflower Sunday*, Bird on a Wire*, I Heard the News, Come On Over, Celluloid Dream, Angel from Montgomery (John Prine), Life Goes On*

*Played live for the first time.

After an exclusive run on Bandcamp, “Rock-n-Roll Oasis: Live at Tiny Telephone” is alive and kicking on all online platforms. Spotify. Apple Music / iTunes. Tidal. The World. Check it out.