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Rebecca Turner

mreh

About Me

You can pick up a copy of RT's CD from Not Lame .
If you prefer, you can buy from CD Baby or download from iTunes , Yahoo Music , or Zuzula (very high quality mp3s.)
Lately RT has been describing herself as mellow countryish pop-rock, kind of like Nashville meets Newark, NJ. (Which she lives near. Newark, she means.) She grew up in Los Angeles. Her first full-length CD Land of My Baby came out in 2005, and recording for the second one, tentatively titled The Way She is Now, is (dum-da-dum) underway.
RT has been writing songs and playing out (which always sounds to her like wearing out, as in "Are you going to wear those shoes out of the store, ma'am?") since 1995. Some of her favorite recent gigs have been at Jalopy in Red Hook; the Happy Ending reading series in NYC's Chinatown, at which she sang the night Jen Trynin read, which was very exciting; the truly wonderful Banjo Jims in the East Village; and the Parkside on the Lower East Side. She'll always miss CBs Gallery where she played a lot and, if you really want to get maudlin, she really misses Baby Jupiter, where she and her friends threw a benefit concert in 2000 at which they did all of Geo. Harrison's All Things Must Pass, except for the jam parts.
People she plays with regularly to whom she is quite grateful are her husband, Scott Anthony (bass), John Pinamonti (guitar), Steve Goulding (drums), and Sue Raffman (harmony vocals).
Here's what RT did today:
Went to work, walked around, ate guacamole and matzo, dodged the cat on the stairs, attempted to read an article in the New Yorker but found her attention span was too short, talked to gals on the phone, hung out with her husband and did some music-related stuff.
Here's what she did on this day 30 years ago:
Went to school, got driven home, sat on the steps doing homework and smelling the eucalyptus trees, ate Kraft macaroni and cheese (to be fair, it could also have been her Mom's delicious tarragon chicken), watched Fernwood 2 Night and Taxi, put on Linda Ronstadt's Heart Like a Wheel, and then Tom Petty's You're Gonna Get It, and had trouble falling asleep because the neighbor's windchimes sounded like a ghost piano.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/11/2005
Band Website: rebeccaturner.net
Influences: Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Lone Justice, Kim Richey, Lorrie Moore, Nanci Griffith, Los Angeles, New York, New Jersey, Blake Norton, Rolling Stones, George Harrison, Jo Stafford, Doris Day, The Bangles, Squeeze, Jules Shear, Continental Drifters, Liz Phair, Jane Siberry, Erica Smith, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Paula Carino, Simon & Garfunkel, Love Camp 7, Kenny Young and the Eggplants, The Baskets, Trisha Yearwood, Lee Ann Womack, Patty Loveless, TMB (That Motown Band), 5 Chinese Brothers, Los Lobos, the Blasters, Rockpile, Eagles, Nicolette Larson, Alison Krauss, Big Star, Donald Fagen, The Three O'Clock, Burt Siegel, Hem, Neal Casal, Ryan Adams, Miranda Lambert, the Nu-Sonics, Max Greene, The Cucumbers, Judee Sill.
Record Label: Fred
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New song and stuff

I posted in the MySpace player a live version (from the Saturday Afternoon Song Swap) of "Comfort You Up," which is going to be on my new record. It's about when people take care of you, or you take c...
Posted by Rebecca Turner on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:57:00 PST

Playing the Swap 4/12, and other news

We’re headed towards our fourth Saturday Afternoon Song Swap, and this one, I’m playing! Along with Bob Carino, Paula Carino (Bob’s sister!), Philip Shelley, Val Emmich, and Ken Shan...
Posted by Rebecca Turner on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:27:00 PST

SASS and recording!

The first SASS (Saturday Afternoon Song Swap) was wonderful. Click on the kitty avatar among my friends below to get the scoop, pix and songs. From the first second of the first song (John Raido's "Tu...
Posted by Rebecca Turner on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:40:00 PST

Upcoming gigs 1/11 and 1/12

Merry holidays! January 11 I'll be at Sunny's in Red Hook with John Pinamonti, and the very next day is the first installment of the Saturday Afternoon Song Swap, or SASS, at the Cafe Meow in Maplewoo...
Posted by Rebecca Turner on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:49:00 PST

Song Swap!

Hi...I'm so excited that Deena from The Cucumbers and I are going to be starting something we're calling "Saturday Afternoon Song Swap," which will take place at the Cafe Meow in Maplewood. The first ...
Posted by Rebecca Turner on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:39:00 PST