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OMG, the Mountain View Edith Frost makes the papers again! I wonder if she can sing? I sure don't cook. I mean, I could but I don't.
This salad gets its pleasant crunch from ramen noodles, almonds and sesame seeds. "It's my most asked-for recipe," says Edith Frost from Mountain View, California. "An adaptable main dish, it works well with chicken or turkey, too."
From the blog of Lucio Menegon, Kingtone Music...
Albany, CA is a sleepy little city that is part of the East Bay just north of Berkeley. A mostly ‘middle class’ (for the SF Bay Area) kinda place where people raise kids without the fears of many modern urban dwellers. It has a conservative 1950s feel to it, and from what I hear the cops there like it that way. Strangely enough, it is home to some amazing talent and subversiveness. Maybe that is not strange at all.
Here’s some examples I have experienced.
This past weekend I played on a session with Drag City artist, Edith Frost. It was a nice song titled, My Euphorbia and was recorded for a possible future DC comp that apparently has something to do with the tracks being performed live. Those in attendance were Edith, Wil Hendricks on standup bass, myself on guitar, Val Esway and Heather Davidson on backup vocals. Edith and Wil (via Chicago) live in Albany. [...]
This is Val Esway's blog. She and Heather Davison did some super-cool spooky backups on a tune I recorded the other day.
... which will be here too soon... which is why I can't even stop to tell you about my recording session with Edith Frost... or the amazing set that Joe Rut played tonight at the Bazaar Cafe.... there is more, more, more, ...
Led by guitarist Nathaniel Braddock — also of Edith Frost, The Zincs and Ancient Greeks — the group started off covering the best of traditional Congolese musicians. They’ve since gone on to create their own signature blend while ...
A very pretty poster designed by Sean Ingram, for the 2006 show I did with the Zincs at the Record Bar in Kansas City....Resources, and Tutorials to Get More Out of the Amazon Kindle (via KindleKorner)
(...) Drummer Jason Toth (Manishevitz, Edith Frost) emits a Pixies-like pulse on “They Sleep Standing Like Cranes”, and propels the record throughout. (...)
July 9, 1926. Washington, D.C. "Girls in bathing suits with ukuleles." National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.
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