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Feb. 10th, 2011 02:05 pmTonight I venture on down to Capricon! If you'll be there, I'm in the Cafe Saturday afternoon, on my own and with friends, and playing a reduced Wild Mercy Concert - We've decided that when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
harperjen, tollers and I get together, we're Trouble. So come see Trouble Saturday night at 8:30!
This month I'm on a light work schedule, and doing a lot more fiddling than I might otherwise. Currently on my music list are things for Trouble, Moxie, and a crazy piano rag from 1915. Jug band stuff will be back on my list after Cap.
Speaking of my music list, I'd like to tell all y'all that Wicked Girls is out on CDBaby! They say they're currently out of stock, but they should be restocked very soon, and you can still order it right now. Which you should do. I'm prouder than a peacock about this album. It's all fantastic, it's all got Seanan's voice, soaring with her own incredible work and two fantastic covers, but for me the first track says the most. Counting Crows is one of my favorite songs to rock out on, it's one of my favorite songs of Seanan's, and Kristoph Klover knocked it out of the park in so many ways. But it doesn't end. Mama Said makes me cry (even before recent events), the solo on Tanglewood tree makes...it makes my teeth ache with how beautiful it is, and that sounds silly to say, because I'm playing half of it. Butstealthcello is the other half, and she's awesome, and the whole is so much greater than the sum of those two parts. I'll never forget the first time we got together to rehearse Tanglewood Tree, knowing that we both play the solo, and not knowing how we'd play it together. So we each just played our version, and they interlocked perfectly. No changes, no rehearsal required. It just worked. And it just works in the track. Then right after it, The Ghost of Lilly Cane is a jaunty walk down heaven's rosy streets and hell's seedy alleys with quadrivium. While I'm praising the instrumentalists, I'd like to mention that there are a few songs on this album where I get to play on the same track as artbeco where, despite the fact that we only play together in person maybe once every three years, and we weren't even together in the studio -- but on a couple of these tracks, I'm not sure where the violin stops and the harmonica begins, we weave so well around each other. vixyish delights and adds to the entire album, and helps make Writing Again so poignant. The title track is a party, beauty and determination in equal measure, and then My Story Is Not Done caps it off and says it all. Keep going. Tell your own story. Be wicked, and lovely, and don't live in fear.
I, uh, didn't mean to talk about half the album there. But when you hear it, I hope you'll understand.
Also! The Anonymity Games are still going on. I haven't gotten too many responses over the past ten days, so I'm giving it another five. Go to that entry and comment anonymously (or not anonymously; comments are screened) if you'd like to leave a question, answer, valentine, or other note. I'll answer the first round of questions on the 15th.
harperjen, tollers and I get together, we're Trouble. So come see Trouble Saturday night at 8:30!This month I'm on a light work schedule, and doing a lot more fiddling than I might otherwise. Currently on my music list are things for Trouble, Moxie, and a crazy piano rag from 1915. Jug band stuff will be back on my list after Cap.
Speaking of my music list, I'd like to tell all y'all that Wicked Girls is out on CDBaby! They say they're currently out of stock, but they should be restocked very soon, and you can still order it right now. Which you should do. I'm prouder than a peacock about this album. It's all fantastic, it's all got Seanan's voice, soaring with her own incredible work and two fantastic covers, but for me the first track says the most. Counting Crows is one of my favorite songs to rock out on, it's one of my favorite songs of Seanan's, and Kristoph Klover knocked it out of the park in so many ways. But it doesn't end. Mama Said makes me cry (even before recent events), the solo on Tanglewood tree makes...it makes my teeth ache with how beautiful it is, and that sounds silly to say, because I'm playing half of it. But
stealthcello is the other half, and she's awesome, and the whole is so much greater than the sum of those two parts. I'll never forget the first time we got together to rehearse Tanglewood Tree, knowing that we both play the solo, and not knowing how we'd play it together. So we each just played our version, and they interlocked perfectly. No changes, no rehearsal required. It just worked. And it just works in the track. Then right after it, The Ghost of Lilly Cane is a jaunty walk down heaven's rosy streets and hell's seedy alleys with quadrivium. While I'm praising the instrumentalists, I'd like to mention that there are a few songs on this album where I get to play on the same track as artbeco where, despite the fact that we only play together in person maybe once every three years, and we weren't even together in the studio -- but on a couple of these tracks, I'm not sure where the violin stops and the harmonica begins, we weave so well around each other. vixyish delights and adds to the entire album, and helps make Writing Again so poignant. The title track is a party, beauty and determination in equal measure, and then My Story Is Not Done caps it off and says it all. Keep going. Tell your own story. Be wicked, and lovely, and don't live in fear.I, uh, didn't mean to talk about half the album there. But when you hear it, I hope you'll understand.
Also! The Anonymity Games are still going on. I haven't gotten too many responses over the past ten days, so I'm giving it another five. Go to that entry and comment anonymously (or not anonymously; comments are screened) if you'd like to leave a question, answer, valentine, or other note. I'll answer the first round of questions on the 15th.
