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Carol Grimes

Make Life Lush, xxxxxx

About Me



For all my tracks, vids, pics & more go to
www.carolgrimes.com



My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/26/2006
Band Website: carolgrimes.com
Band Members:

SOMETHING SECRET
Carol Grimes & Giles Perring.

UK FUNK ALLSTARS
featuring
Root Jackson,Madeline Bell, Carol Grimes, Linda Lewis, Hamish Stewart, Cymande, and many more!

THE SHOUT
16 piece vocal Big Band, directed by Orlando Gough.
www.theshout.org

NEW COATS
featuring
Carol Grimes, Steve Lodder, Annie Whitehead, Josefina Cupido, Jennifer Maidman & Dylan Bates.



Currently making merry with ... Carol Grimes, Dorian Ford, Max de Wardener & Winston Clifford..............
Influences:

Miles, Mingus, Flamenco, Taj Mahal, Joni Mitchell, J.S.Bach, Aretha, Marvin Gaye, Shane MacGowan,Pablo Casals... And, Philip Pullman, William Blake, Paula Rego, Anne Michaels, Raymond Carver, The Paintings of Karen Douglas and Andrew Goddard.

The River Thames, the ocean, the sky, the moon and the sun and the stars, the earth,ancient trees and yellow daffodils,freshly baked bread, My Children, xxxxxxx

and music music music....

Umm Kulthum, The Tango, Oscar Brown Jnr. & King Pleasure, Charlotte Salomon, Billy Strayhorn,Marc Chagall,Jeff Buckley, Les Dawson, Lucille Ball, Buster Keaton, Bjork, Ray Charles, Edith Piaf, Weather Report, Annie Whitehead, Fran Landesman, Sun Ra,Bessie Smith and Robert Johnson, Cymande, Louis Armstrong and Tom Waites and..........

MY FRIENDS and a glass of wine, or two...and some good food at a good table with good people under a starry sky.... c xxxx



Sounds Like: 'ummmmmmm.... me?
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Five Poems

Love.Love life; for it is a fragile wisp of a thing,a butterfly wing easily crushed between thumb and finger an insect, indiscernible to a human eye, drowned in a raindrop one second to l...
Posted by Carol Grimes on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:38:00 PST

My Blues

My Blues.From THE C.D. Eyes Wide Open I heard Ray Charles on a Juke box in 1959.'night time is the right time'and ooh that sound was fine.miles Davis blew 'kind of blue'a bitter sweet refrain.and i n...
Posted by Carol Grimes on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:10:00 PST

Blues For Louis

Blues for Louis. Carol Grimes.From The C.D. Mother.Inside a room with a gas ring, sink & single bed,she listened to the blues, black vinyl warm spinningher heart wanting the sound in her mouthOutside ...
Posted by Carol Grimes on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:27:00 PST