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karly dawn

a hopeful emmylou #2

About Me

i'm a proud kentuckian, torn away from this great state as a youngin, stayin up north long enough to really appreciate it when i returned after high school. i love creating and playing music of many sorts. i sing and play guitar, but i like spending time with my cello and my new old banjo. i write music and enjoy the process of creation when graced with inspiration. i also love the recording process. i am coming to terms with limitation in life but leveling off the enlightenment and allowing for the good and righteous virtues i seek to settle. people find me quirky, when it comes to music, i seem to take anything in and warp it til it makes sense to me. and if others enjoy it, then i am doubly happy. a couple few years ago, I moved it on up to playing old time music with three of the hippest kats in town(i.e. the bestest rockinest musicians in town, true souls) and we garnered and rendered a hillbilly revolution as The Clack Mountain String Band. or so you hear tale.

My Interests

pickin'and singin and grinnin', playing Bach Cello Suites on the mandolin. trying to play fiddle tunes on the cello. playin rhythm guitar and singing for Clack Mountain String Band.p.s i'm in love with my new old banjo

I'd like to meet:

Loretta Lynn, i've changed my mind about meeting Bush, as this would surely be a waste of time and i'd probably go to jail. i still would like to have been a friend of Beethoven. i would have been one of the swooning ladies in the front row.

Music:

country greats: Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, EmmyLou, Buck Owens, Marty Robbins,ect. Dora Mae Wagers, Lily Mae Ledford, Neil Young, Carter Family, the Beatles, Gram Parsons, Joni Mitchell, CS&N, Bill Monroe, the Ramones, oldies rock, punk, Bach, mountain music , continuing on...the singing styles of Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, Dave Evans, Dolly Parton, Kitty Wells, Matt Kinman, Michael Stipe, Dwight Yoakom(?), Louvin Brothers, Stanley Brothers. i am going to add some rotten roll: the clash, david bowie, ramones, janes addiction, the stones, dylan, the band, da ramones, , my morning jacket, pink floyd, the doors, the ramones. stuff like dat. i love swing, jazz, classical, world, bluegrass, oldtime, old school, groovy like hiphop/rap-in the right setting, gospel, old country, 80's new wave, 70's disco, community orchestra ramblings, children playing music or singing. old ladies on their dulcimers.

Movies:

An Inconvenient Truth, Silkwood, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Godfather Trilogy, CoalMiner's Daughter, Wizard of Oz, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, the Red, White, and Blue series, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Urban Cowboy (thanks Anita), It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, Eternal Beloved, A Clockwork Orange

Television:

well, the honeymooners, the carol burnett show, loveboat, brady bunch, the price is right, the gong show. hey, i'm a seventies child.

Books:

The Color Purple, Beloved, 1984, The Grapes of Wrath, The Bell Jar, Valley of the Dolls, the Tao of Loving, the Dr. Suess stories

Heroes:

Harriet Tubman, selfless people who work to save others and the environment, people who work to give others a better life.

My Blog

a lil bit o' me

Well if you don't already know me then i can tell you just a few things.  I have sang all my life, since i could utter sound. ha. i began to study cello at age 11 and started guitar in college.&n...
Posted by karlydawn on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:56:00 PST

Mountain Top Removal and my letter to the editor

Hello fellow Kentuckians.  I received a letter today explaining that the important House Bill 385, that focuses on controlling pollution due to mountain top removal, due for examination by our la...
Posted by karlydawn on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:26:00 PST