A CD release party for my new album IT’S A GAME, with the Thin Man and Shelley Short
At the Hothouse
31 E. Balbo, Chicago IL 60605
(312) 362-9707
My band: Emmett Kelly (guitar); Lindsay Anderson (piano, keyboards, backup vocals); Ryan Hembrey (bass); Jason Toth (drums)
Canasta: We Were Set Up
© 2005 (self-released)
Preview the album on their audio page
Order here
I sang backups on the song “Just a Star”.
Full-page article in today’s Trib. (bugmenot) They quoted both Riyans! No glaring errors, and very complimentary of the new record, which I so appreciate. Half of me wants to go out and shake everybody’s hand — I’m a genius!! — and the other half wants to crawl under a rock because it gets so personal. Arrrrgh! I’ll try to explain…
 front cover |
 back cover |
 promo poster |
Edith Frost: IT’S A GAME
©2005, Drag City #DC301 (LP and CD)
Download the one-sheet
Purchase the CD or LP at Drag City, or get the CD on Amazon
MP3s are available from iTunes and Amazon
Produced by Rian Murphy
Engineered & mixed by Mark Greenberg at Mayfair Recordings and Barry Phipps at North Branch Studio
New meme at Amanda’s: “Google your name and needs, e.g. ‘Amanda needs’. Then you list the top 10 results.”
Edith needs help
Edith needs her tea Edith needs a Guardianship
Edith needs in her life to sort out the mess that’s been forced upon her
Edith needs outside of the hospital
EDITH NEEDS YOUR HELP!
Edith needs to reclaim that portion of herself that was ripped away over a half century earlier
Edith needs her medicine
Edith needs to pull out of the bucket (without looking) to make sure that she has one matching set
Edith needs some lovin’
I made a new song, fun fun fun! It just appeared in my head, I started typing and pluckin’ on the beater guitar and out it came. :-) I dunno if it’s a keeper, it’s seeming a little too schmaltzy even for me… might have to fuck it up a little more before I attempt a demo. In my head it sounds like a Skeeter Davis lament, crossed with one of Marais & Miranda’s nature songs? Which is why I really need to mess with it some more before I record it. We’ll see how it turns out; I’m just glad I got it to the first-draft point, where it’s written down and I’m reasonably sure I’ll remember how it goes later. So if something else magically appears, I’ll be able to get that down too without losing the first one. Only twelve or so to go, heheh!
Bleh. I broke up with Eric today. I’m sad it didn’t work out between us but not surprised. Don’t want to talk about the whys and wherefores here, just wanted to get it out there so there’s no confusion and it’ll be as not-a-big-deal as possible for us and all our mutual friends etc. I think the world of Eric, we’re great friends and he’s a great guy. We’ve had a lot of excellent times together and I’m pretty sure we can still be good friends and let the fun times continue… only time will tell but I don’t see why it shouldn’t work out that well. Both of us have a lot of work to do in the coming months and I think I can speak for both of us when I say it’s all good, we gave it the best we could and we’re both better people for having known each other. I don’t harbor any bad feelings to speak of about Eric, I’m grateful for what we had while it lasted, and I hope we can retain the excellent friendship we’ve enjoyed thus far. So, not much has changed really, I’m just not going to be dating him anymore, that’s all. And that’s about all there is to say on that topic!! No drama here, just the facts. It’s all good, really.
Hey y’all, I’m back home in Chicago again, totally buzzing about what a great time I had playing with Calexico & Iron and Wine. It was so, so, SO much fun, I’m so psyched I got to do that!! I was visiting my folks in Texas the weekend before last when I got the call to do those shows… our booking agents had been talking about it for months but it all came together wham-bam at the last minute. They needed me to play solo so that’s what I did… not my normal preferred way to play, but I pulled it off pretty well I think! They flew me down to Tulsa (”I’m too young to marry…”) for the show at Cain’s, and then I rode with them from there to Fort Worth and then to Austin. Flew black home from there. They paid me well and bought me those plane tickets and fed me and put me in HO-tels, loaned me a guitar, the whole bit. See, that’s what I’m talkin’ bout! That’s the life. I sure don’t get that kinda treatment every day as a musician. I was joking with Howard (who road-managed) that the very lowest point for me on that tour was when we sat down in a Japanese restaurant and I looked at the menu and said "Huh. I don’t eat Japanese food that often; I’m not sure what to order…" Yep, that was the worst, heheh. Such hard times on the road… ;-)
Opened for Calexico and Iron and Wine
at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q
801 Red River, Austin TX
(512) 480-8341
With Paul Niehaus (pedal steel)
Photo by Mary Sledd
Opened for Calexico and Iron and Wine
at the Ridglea Theater
6025 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76116
With Paul Niehaus (pedal steel)
Opened for (solo) Calexico and Iron and Wine
at Cain’s Ballroom
423 N. Main St., Tulsa, OK 74103
(918) 584-2306
Yep, congratulations to the White Sox for sweeping the Series this year. And, my sincerest condolences to my brother-in-law Mark and my nephew Thomas, both Astros fans who had tickets to game five, which of course won’t be happening… I do feel bad for them. Seriously. Ten year old kid with a ticket to the freakin’ World Series and he can’t even go, how heartbreaking is that?!?
But other than THAT, I’m totally stoked. Yeah, I’ve been a Cubs fan for awhile, but now I’m a Sox fan too. I can dig ‘em both, it’s okay. :-)
A few shows have been confirmed for THIS WEEK, sorry for the last-minute notice! I’ll be opening for Calexico and Iron and Wine in Tulsa on Friday, Fort Worth on Saturday and Austin on Sunday. Or rather I’ll be playing in the middle, between the two I&W / Calexico sets. Just a 30-minute solo set, but still. It’ll be lots of fun and I’m really excited and honored that they asked me to join them.
(I JUST got back yesterday from a few days visiting the folks in Austin / San Antonio, so it’s pretty funny I’m going right back a week later.)
Go to Drag City for an MP3 of "Emergency", a song from my new album It’s a Game, which is coming out on Nov. 15th. The MP3’s only going to be up for the next few weeks so go giddit while you can! I hope you dig it.
c/o grachel steinmeier…
don’t usually send these. i actually laughed at this. you know how i hate to laugh…
Five tips for a woman….
It is important that a man helps you around the house and has a job.
It is important that a man makes you laugh.
It is important to find a man you can count on and doesn’t lie to you.
It is important that a man loves you and spoils you.
It is important that these four men don’t know each other.
