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cassie morgan & the lonely pine

About Me

“On her first release, Cassie Morgan possesses the kind of voice that's self-assured and confident even when singing about loss, regret and doubt….Morgan doesn't require much more than her guitar and your attention to make her mark; her songs sneak up on you with gentle sensibilities, while her lyrics cut to the quick.”
--Riverfront Times
“Her phrasing is lyrical in all the best ways…melodically, Morgan's delivery is dead on. When Morgan goes spare using only guitar, voice, and glockenspiel for "Paper Leaves," the beauty of her restraint becomes ethereal.”
--Playback:STL
Cassie Morgan and the Lonely Pine has had the pleasure of sharing a stage with the likes of Pieta Brown, Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps, Alina Simone, Death Vessel, Matt Dill, Ian Fisher, Berry, Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers...
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 31/08/2007
Band Members:
Cassie Morgan (guitar and vocals live, and various other things on recordings)
Beth Bombara as "The Lonely Pine" (glockenspiel, slide guitar, toy piano, tambourine, shaker, triangle, background vocals...). ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------- Other contributing musicians in the past: Matt Aufrecht (drums and rhodes); Alex Frankel (drums); Paul Goodenough (background vocals); JJ Hamon (chains, champagne flute, accordion, tambourine, bass, and background vocals); Robin Hanspal (jaw harp); Joey Lemon (bass, glockenspiel, rhodes, slide guitar, and background vocals); Mike Marquard (bass, keys, guitar); Kate McDaniel (bass, snaps and claps); Zoran Tasic (mandolin and bass).

Influences: Blue collar factory workers; cheap guitars; the interaction between the rural and the urban; Neko Case; dirt and dust; Bob Dylan; privilege and tragedy; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Lucinda Williams; The Sun; Dory Previn; The Breeders; Camera Obscura; hardwood floors; Esther Phillips; war; Mirah; mo(u)rning.
Sounds Like:
Buy a physical copy of the Pine So Sweet EP in-store or online at:
VINTAGE VINYL (St. Louis, MO)
or
APOP RECORDS (St. Louis, MO)
You can purchase MP3 downloads of the songs here:

AMAZON
Record Label: none
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

2009 RFT Music Award Winner

Thank you, thank you to all who voted for the RFT Music Awards and to all who came out for the music showcase. I've been named the 2009 Best Singer-Songwriter (female)! Yeah!  Congrats to all.  Chec...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:11:00 GMT

RFT Music Awards Poll: please vote

I've been nominated for a 2009 Riverfront Times Music Award, in the female singer song-writer category.  Here's the link to vote (You have to scroll down a little ways before you get to the singer s...
Posted by on Thu, 14 May 2009 12:43:00 GMT

Benefit Show at The Gramophone 02/06/09

We've organized a show to benefit Open Door After-School Program, a major program for the youth of the Center for Survivors of Torture and War Trauma (www.stlcenterforsurvivors.org). This is a program...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:40:00 GMT

Pine So Sweet makes Might Be Time Records' best of 2008

Mike North of the St. Louis label, Might Be Time Records, names the Pine So Sweet EP among the top 3 local albums of 2008 in this month's Might Be Local podcast. Check it out and listen to some grea...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:19:00 GMT

RFT Names Pine So Sweet As One of the Top Ten Local Releases Of 2008

Locals Only As was the case the world over, 2008 was a tricky year for working bands in St. Louis. The continuing dissolution of the major-label system has reconfigured the definition of "making it," ...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:24:00 GMT

Playback:STL Review of "Pine So Sweet"

Cassie Morgan - Pine So Sweet EP (s/r)Written by Willie E. SmithWednesday, 17 December 2008If you judge a song by its first 20 seconds, you'll be expecting some gritty frontier music from Cassie Morga...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:18:00 GMT

How to Get the Pine So Sweet EP

You can now pick up a beautifully hand-stamped copy of the Pine So Sweet EP at two of my favorite record stores:1. Vintage Vinyl                            6610 Delmar    St. Louis, MO  63130    htt...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:07:00 GMT

RFT Review of "Pine So Sweet EP"

Cassie Morgan Pine So Sweet EP(self-released) By Christian Schaeffer Published on December 02, 2008 at 4:34pm On her first release, Cassie Morgan possesses the kind of voice that's self-assured and c...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:46:00 GMT

"Paper Leaves" is the Sepiachord song of the day!!!

Sepiachord, a Seattle-based website that highlights "the music of the past that never was," has chosen "Paper Leaves" as the song of the day. Go check them out and have a listen to past playlists and...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:32:00 GMT

On the Might Be Time podcast!!!

I recently caught up with Mike North (of the St. Louis label Might Be Time) in the studio to chat about music and play a couple songs for the Might Be Local podcast. Go on and have a listen to the ve...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:29:00 GMT