Hi there, thanks for visiting. My name’s Edith Frost (yes, my given name) and I’m a singer-songwriter currently based in Albany, California. I’ve lived all over the place though, in my birthplace San Antonio (1964-70); Austin (1970-73); Guadalajara (1973-79); Austin again (1979-81); San Antonio again (1981-82); Austin again (1982-90); Brooklyn (1990-96) and Chicago (1996-2006).
I’ve been playing music since I was a kid, and started writing songs and recording in my late teens. I didn’t play music in public until the early ’90s though, when I lived in Brooklyn. I started out playing classic-country cover songs with my friend Jeff Ragsdale… we formed a band called the Marfa Lights, and played a lot at a bar in Williamsburg called the Ship’s Mast. Met a gal from Houston there named Deborah Moore, and we started another thing called the Holler Sisters, playing oldtimey girly-duet songs. THEN in ‘93 I joined a rockabilly band (the Tailfins, which morphed into Edith & her Roadhouse Romeos), so at that point I was in three bands at once. I was also working on my original songs at the time, and decided I ought to send a few tapes out to see if a record label might be interested. Heard back from Drag City around ‘94 and I’ve been putting out records and touring ever since. I’m really lucky to have worked with so many great musicians.
I have a bio on Wikipedia if you’re interested. You should also check my label Drag City. My discography is viewable in its complete form, or separated into my own albums and EPs, appearances on compilations and guest appearances on other people’s records.
Oh yeah… the “roller-skating enthusiast” thing in my blog header? It’s sort of an inside joke, based on a true story. I actually do love to skate, and I am a good skater, but I’m not currently active in the sport like I used to be. I just think the tagline’s funny, and less boring than “Drag City chanteuse” or whatever.
Regarding this website
I do it all myself; I always have and probably always will. I’ve been running this site in some form or another since what, 1994? Yes. Well, when I say I “do it all” I mean the fixing-up of the templates, the writing of the content, the handwriting that you see, basically every single janitorial duty that must be done for the creation and running of the website. So that’s why it’s so… weird and piled-together. It’s the sum of over ten years of throwing crap up here and hoping it sticks. Heh!
I didn’t write the underlying code that powers my blog though, of course. I USED to do all that by hand in plain ol’ HTML, back in the old days. Then I got wise and started using Blogger, then Movable Type, then ExpressionEngine, which is the one I stuck with the longest. That’s probably the most powerful and versatile of all of them. However, I like to change it up so I’m currently using WordPress as my blogging tool, and loving it.
cforms contact form by delicious:days
WordPress Plugins I’m Rockin’
It’s all about the plugins! Here’s a list of the ones I’m using, in case you’re interested in trying some out on your own blog… well, except for “Random Edith Frost Lyrics 1.0″. That’s private proper-teh. ;-)
Akismet by Matt Mullenweg (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.
Anonymous WordPress Plugin Updates by Hannes Hofmann (url)
Anonymizes the data transmitted during plugin update checking and notification system.
Bad Behavior by Michael Hampton (url)
Deny automated spambots access to your PHP-based Web site.
cforms by Oliver Seidel (url)
cformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role Manager support, Database tracking and many more. Please see the VERSION HISTORY for what’s new and current bugfixes.
Comment License by Alex King (url)
Show license terms for your comments form.
Customizable Comment Listings by Scott Reilly (url)
Easily find comments (including pingbacks and/or trackbacks) or commenters and list and display anything about them or their related post in the manner you want.
Donations Cloud by Alex Günsche (url)
Make donating to you a fun competition! People can donate via PayPal and submit an URL. The URLs of the latest donors are displayed in a cloud. The more a person donates, the bigger his/her link will be.
FeedWordPress by Charles Johnson (url)
simple and flexible Atom/RSS syndication for WordPress
Full Text Feed by Ronald Heft, Jr. (url)
Show your website’s feed in its full glory, not using the more link.
Humanized History by Charles Johnson (url)
Magic endless scrollbars for WordPress archives. Don’t force your readers to ask for older posts: just give it to them when they’re ready.
Markdown for WordPress and bbPress by Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (url)
Markdown syntax allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format. Based on Markdown Extra by Michel Fortin, in turn based on the original Perl version by John Gruber.
Moderate Pingbacks by Nick Momrik (url)
Puts pingbacks not marked as ’spam’ into moderation.
Moderate Trackbacks by Nick Momrik (url)
Puts trackbacks not marked as ’spam’ into moderation.
Old Post Alert by Alex King (url)
Show a potential commentor a note if a post is old. Might cut down on comments that are answered in later posts. Then again, it might not. Questions on configuration, etc.? Make sure to read the README.
Page Link Title Attributes by SarahG (url)
Allows you to customise the title attribute of each page link in wp_list_pages.
PlanetMike Login Error Cleaner by Michael Clark (url)
This plugin sanitizes login errors so an attacker won’t know what was wrong, just that they ddn’t get logged in.
PlanetMike WLW Disabler by Michael Boyd Clark (url)
This plugin disables the Windows Live Writer headers. These headers are links with a rel of EditURI and wlwmanifest. More information at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/140794
Random Edith Frost Lyrics by Edith Frost (url)
Spout randomly chosen Edith Frost lyrics. Based on Random BBoys Lyrics by Jason Cumberland.
Role Manager by Thomas Schneider (url)
Role Management for WordPress 2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x and 2.3.x..
Sanitize permalink with undescores by Daniele Simonin (url)
Modifica il permalink affinchè ogni parola sia separata da un underscore “_” al posto del trattino “-” che Wordpress usa di default (si tratta solo di una leggera modifica alla funzione già esistente).
Search Regex by John Godley (url)
Adds search & replace functionality across posts, pages, comments, and meta-data, with full regular expression support
Smarter Archives by rob1n (url)
A unique way of displaying month links by year. Based on original code by Justin Blanton, but much enhanced. Licensed under the APL 2.0.
Subscribe To Comments by Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess
Time Zone by Kimmo Suominen (url)
Automatic daylight saving time switching. Optionally specify the time zone to be used.
Twitter Tools by Alex King (url)
A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter.
WP-PluginsUsed by Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.
