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red gypsy queen

here's some music, if you wanna listen..

About Me

Other than an ocasional open mic around philly, I don't play out solo. I am very proud and happy to be part of the spinning leaves., We spin and glow, and love BIG.. and generally speaking, its much more fun to play out with them. With that said- if you would like to hear my music in person, I will play for you if you emailed me and invited me to do so. Especially if you have a good beverage to offer in exchange. If you live far away, I would still come if you paid for my train/plane ticket.. I love to travel! I would also love to have my songs in soundtracks, so please contact me if you are interested.. Thank you for listening to these songs, and feel free to say hello and I will try to write back as soon as I can. Yours Truly, Barbara

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/16/2005
Band Website: n/a
Band Members: posted on this page, I have some help from Josh Allen on 'ghost'-on the upcoming record... ..(!!)Jeff Hiatt- upright bass, bass, and organ Todd Barneson- mandolin, various guitars, harmonies Adrien Reju- harmonies Tom Wallings- drums Owen Biddle- bass
Influences: this list is inspired by Hezekiah Jones; the wind, the sea, fire, small towns, big cities, my family, and friends, leaves.. in all of their stages, people i meet and see, words i read, movies i see, dreams i dream, other people's dreams, paintings, sculptures, visionaries, my visions, children, love, lost love, hope, beauty, laughter, the stars, traveling, floating, and the ground that i walk, raw emotion, passion, being in the moment, music that i hear in the rhythm of rain drops and wheels turning, and relentless compassion. as for musical influences here are a few. philly locals; Ooooohhhhhh so sent in ship, hezekiah jones, andy keenan, birdie busch, rachel russel, the lowlands, cowmuddy,andrew lipke,the naughty naughty nurses, the bee team, people at connie's ric rac, lisa watson, unlikely cowboy, brian flanagan, papertrees, quintero, oud blues, kilo, craig craigstofferson, the discount heroes, people at turtle studios,the fractals, the discount heroes, citizens band radio,the great unknown, lazlo, norwalks, wes matthew and the new way down, sisters 3, adrien reju, bevin caulfield, stillwillis, joshua heard park, john francis, greg morgan, devin greenwood, people at the fire, hoots & hellmouth, amos lee, the teeth, dr. dog, the extraordinares, mutlu, the burndown allstars, the roots, little rolling thunder, carl the mind, cat & mouse, ben arnold, joseph parsons, jim boggia, and thats all i can think of this moment. musicians that i may or may not know but love deeply; gillian welch, mazzy star, devendra banhart, radiohead, the grateful dead, bob dylan, loretta lynn, nick drake, the pixies, odeath, van morrison, otis redding,st germaine, npr's amercan roots program, chris bathgate, robert johnson, m ward, iron and wine, the beatles,bonnie raitt,will oldham, frank black, mos def, the avett brothers,morceeba, the soundtracks from wes anderson movies,simon & garfunkle, vandaveer, jane's addiction, patsy cline, prince, meanwhiles,odetta, leadbelly, lightnin' hopkins, langhorne slim, scrapper blackwell, the shins,gorillaz, david byrne, john lennon, the band, donovan, son house, animal collective, ali farka toure, djengo rheinhardt, a tribe called quest, the velvet underground, stevie wonder, tom waits, townes van zandt, baba mal, the be good tanyas, ryan adams, john coltrane, miles davis, bach, beetoven, rahzel, lou reed, and many others..
Sounds Like: my own personal soundtrack.. and maybe yours too?
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

one year and some change..

well.its been a while that ive written anything on behalf of this page.in the event you do not know, which i imagine is probably true for most of you..in october i became involved with the spinning le...
Posted by red gypsy queen on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:29:00 PST

True Majority..

This is an easy way to make a difference.. it takes 2 seconds to sign up and the folks at True Majority pre-write a letter your local government officials so all you need to do is click on the 'send' ...
Posted by red gypsy queen on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:36:00 PST

Jedi Mind Tricks, not the band...

I have started playing out. Can you believe it?  I certainly can not! It started with playing one night at a spotlight in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia (a place called the Dawson Stre...
Posted by red gypsy queen on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:38:00 PST

this has nothing to do with music..

my friend Todd from college posted this.  I thinks its nuts.. I think you'll agree..... i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mn...
Posted by red gypsy queen on Wed, 17 May 2006 10:19:00 PST

fountain of youth

Thanks for checking in.. I made the move from Philly to NY although I'm back in Philly so far, every two weeks because I miss everyone so much. I'm also thoroughly enjoying excursions up route 9 throu...
Posted by red gypsy queen on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 02:22:00 PST

In Search of the Big Pink

    My Weekend of Independence: so, on saturday i woke up and decided i wanted to take a carride.  (which i often do, but this time I wanted a real excursion..) so- i tried to contact m...
Posted by red gypsy queen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST