Edith Frost
Monday June 17, 1996 – 6:00 pm
Edith Frost: EDITH FROST
©1996, Drag City #DC78 (CD-EP / 2×7")
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MP3s are available from iTunes
My very first release, recorded at home on a 4-track cassette and an 8-track reel-to-reel.
All songs by Edith Frost, published by Marfa Music (BMI)
Musicians:
Edith Frost (vocals, guitar); Bill Neubauer (guitar on “My God Insane”)
Songs:
Evangeline; Blame You; My God Insane; Waiting Room
About the artwork:
The B&W cover photo was taken by my mother Susan Frost… yes, that’s me in the picture. There’s also a Polaroid self-portrait on the back of the 2×7".
October 19th, 2003 at 1:29 pm
hmmm, I just realized that it was your first recorded song on your first CD, “Evangeline” on your self-titled 1996 CD that was played when I called in a request at the local college radio station at 4:30 in the morning from my van that Wednesday morning October 20, 1999. I’m usually not up and driving at 4 a.m., but that morning I was, and to help stay awake I’d tuned in the local college radio station and heard the last half-hour of a show that must have been a 3 to 5 a.m. show. They give those least wanted overnight time slots to first timers at the station. That Wednesday morning must have been only her fourth or fifth weekly show.The music she played was stuff I liked, like Elliot Smith, Lisa Germano, (I forget exactly what songs), but , when she invited anyone listening to call in with a request, I thought I’d take a long shot, and suggest anything by Edith Frost. I’d just found your music earlier that year and as I sometimes do, took a chance and purchased that CD (knowing full well you can’t tell a CD by its cover), intrigued by that errily rain-distorted cover of the Sears Tower on “Calling Over Time” . So at the time I called in to request anything by Edith Frost (thinking she probably wouldn’t have heard of you, which was true - but that she would like ypir music if she ever did hear it but most likely wouldn’t find anything in the record library at the station anyway.) A coupler of songs later a song came on that I liked, but didn’t know. So I called back again and said it was me again, and asked who that song was by. I felt embarrassed when she told me that she had found a CD at the station b Edith Frost and played that first track “Evangeline”. Duh, yeah, I should have recognized the voice. I thought it was you, but wasn’t positive. I liked it and thanked her for actually finding and playing it. I told her I really didn’t think she’d find anything by Edith Frost. Wrong again. I figured that, even if she didn’t find anything, my request would encourage this d.j. to look for your album. I didn’t even know about that 1996 four-song e.p. at that time. And that’s how I first heard your first song on your first CD, by tuning in for the first time to this first-semester radio show called “Hibiscus Galoshes by a third-year student whose on-air persona
was named “Daisy Deadpetals” (after the Tori Amos song of the same name). Over the next 363 days her program and the real person behind the person would have a profound affect on my life, then vanish from it as suddenly and unexpectedly as she had entered it.