Spike Priggen / Brian Dewan

On Friday, November 13, 2026, Spike Priggen will celebrate the 25th anniversary of his 2001 debut solo CD, The Very Thing That You Treasure, at the Avalon Lounge in Catskill, NY.

Spike will perform the album in its entirety with an all-star band:
- Spike Priggen – guitar, vocals
- Jon Graboff (Phil Lesh, Noel Gallagher, Willie Nelson, Norah Jones) – guitar. Original guitarist on the album, flying in from New Mexico for the occasion.
- Jay Sherman-Godfrey (Laura Cantrell, They Might Be Giants, Amy Rigby) – guitar
- Andy Shernoff (The Dictators, Joey Ramone) – bass
- Doug Wygal (The Individuals, The Wygals, Wanda Jackson, Laura Cantrell) – drums
- Nancy Polstein (The Silos, Cheri Knight, Star City, Girls on Grass) – percussion
- Pete Adams (Bobby Sweet, Arlo Guthrie, Felice Brothers, Sky Smeed, Cobble Mountain Band) – pedal steel guitar

Opening the evening will be Catskill-based musician, songwriter, and visual artist Brian Dewan. He has collaborated with They Might Be Giants and the Blue Man Group. With his cousin Leon Dewan, he created Dewanatron, a series of handmade electronic musical instruments, including the Swarmatron, used by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on the soundtrack to The Social Network.

The album's opening track, “Every Broken Heart,” was featured in the 2001 Thanksgiving episode of the television series Felicity. In 2024, “She Used to Be My Baby” went viral in a TikTok video, receiving 1.2 million views:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLkakKHK/

Spike Priggen is also the owner of Spike's Record Rack, a record store on Main Street in the village of Catskill, NY.

Critical acclaim for The Very Thing That You Treasure:
- “Filled with guitar jangle and bash, peppy '60s pop rhythms, and bittersweet lyrical heart-grinding” — No Depression
- “Effortlessly blends his singer/songwriter sensibility with everything from power pop to punk” — All Music Guide
- “A melodic, bittersweet minor-key masterwork” — Stereophile
- “A sweet little treasure” — SonicNet
- “Turns simple phrases around gorgeous melodies and into moving pop poetry” — Mean Magazine
- “The very definition of bittersweet” — Time Out New York