2006: Thursday, June 29 ~ "This Little Bird" - Audio and Video Preview
Celebrated and celebratory, Allison Crowe is home this weekend
following her transcontinental tour, the Rock'n'Rail Revue,
delivered sea-to-sea by VIA Rail Canada. Home now spans from
Nanaimo, B.C. to Corner Brook, Newfoundland - the full breadth of
Canada. And, not coincidentally, she has the heart and talent to
encompass so vast a territory.
Editors at ARTISTdirect.com
have made Allison the photo-featured artist on the site
homepage. (With 43 million unique users each month, ARTISTdirect
is the third largest
international music network - behind only iTunes and Yahoo Music.)
Joni Mitchell calls today's acts "style inventions". Loving
rock and pop music for more than forty years, myself, it's not hard to
understand Joni's truth. And, it brings home just how rare is Allison
Crowe in 2006. Her artistry and performance has an integrity which is
no longer
allowed in the main. Not surprisingly, as with Bruce Springsteen, when
he was "rock and roll's future", and The Clash, when billed
as "The Only Band that Matters", the response to her music is
visceral. She means it.
Piano tracks, and all but one vocal track, for Allison Crowe's upcoming
album, "This Little Bird" have been recorded. Other musical
elements will be added to the core, and ready for release prior to
Crowe's next European concert tour - slated for Fall/Winter '06.
On this holiday weekend, in Canada and the U.S.,
here's a preview:
~ firstly a raw recording of "A
Case of You" - Joni Mitchell's song which seems especially
appropriate on Canada Day. "I drew a map of Canada. Oh
Canada." (A mixed version of this live track has debuted on CBC
Radio in Canada.)
http://www.allisoncrowe.com/03ACaseofYou.mp3
~ and, one of Allison's newest songs, "Skeletons and
Spirits", a jaunty take on love-gone-off-the-rails; this live
music video was recorded in Canada's most easterly province,
Newfoundland, for the über-popular Rogers tv program, Out of the Fog:
http://www.allisoncrowe.com/AllisonCroweSkeletons&Spirits512kbps.wmv
http://www.allisoncrowe.com/AllisonCroweSkeletons&Spirits128kbps.wmv
Happy holidays!