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Hotel Gypsies - Fever
Two things they told me I’d never be able to do — sing rock & roll, and sing the dark and smoky jazz numbers. Like this. Ha.
(Okay, so it’s just a practice recording and a little rough, but still…!)
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“Not a girl with a guitar”? I think someone is in denial…
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“Hell or High Water” [practice]
a Hotel Gypsies original
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My “Influences” List for Hotel Gypsies
… which is my musical side-project with the Lithus drummer.
Jill Tracy, Sarah Slean, Judy Garland, Fistful of Mercy, Jennifer Knapp, Christine Schafer, Nicole Byblow, Mumford & Sons, Gustav Mahler, Kurt Weill, early jazz and blues, French pop and chanson, 20th century art songs, Appalachian folk, ragtime, hymns and spirituals
(film) Arsenic and Old Lace, Alfred Hitchcock, Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich
(literature) A. A. Milne, The Little White Horse, Sherlock Holmes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dashiell Hammett, Jack Kerouac
(life) the circus, vaudeville, Weimar Berlin, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, the French Revolution
Add in a few “sounds-like” comparisons to The Civil Wars, The Swell Season, and The Wailin Jennys… and a stylistic nod to Jennifer Grassman and The Mynabirds… I’m kindof ridiculously excited for HG to start recording (and writing lots more!) our tunes because it’s just going to sound ridiculously awesome!!!!!! I want to have this music on my iPod! ;)
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"A strange sort of frontier honor
But he doesn’t know how to love the farmer’s daughter"
“Hotel Gypsies” lyric fragment
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She's the sort of girl who, in a previous generation, would have run away from home to join the circus...
Chantelle Constable.
Soprano.
Jazz, classical, rock & roll.
Kansas.
July 22, 1989.
Pianist, guitarist.
Writer.
Traveler.
Choir nerd.
Coffee consumer.
Idealist.
Introvert.
"Elvish Hippie."
aka Fairy Tale Beatnik
Universal Big Sister.
INTP.
Reader.
- of murder mysteries.
Gravitationally enhanced.
Vintage soul.
Cookie baker.
Firefly catcher.
Mahler groupie.
