Member Since: 8/8/2004
Band Website: sarahblacker.com
Band Members: sb~ acoustic guitar/voice/mandolin/foot-percussion/snapping/strange noises/bad jokes/songwriting
**Guests and Ghostnotes**
"Drake's Cakes"
(M. Drake Sherman) - oboe/vocals
"Hassan El-Tayya-bout-it"
(Hassan El-Tayyab) - elec. guitar/vocals
"Adam Freid-the-man"
(Adam Freidman) - flute/djembe/tambourine/vocals
"George Aghia-Sophia"
(George Aghia) - muted trumpet
"Read-em-n'weep"
(Beasley the dog) - barking/howling/doggie-tag jangles
Influences: notes that swoop, things that are jazzy and raw, different laughs, the beats that make me dance or drive 95 mph, warm and round vibrato, the blues!!! honesty, raspy subtlety, birds singing, rain falling, echoes...
and umm...pretty much everything else too.
Sounds Like:
"...a unique combination of Ella Fitzgerald and Ani DiFranco"
~Face Magazine
"The perfect blend of Joni Mitchell and Ella Fitzgerad." ~ Ron Bowen, program director, WXRV 92.5 the River
"If only we had another Woodstock, we'd have the next Joni Mitchell."..."This generation's Tracy Bonham."..."The kamikaze karate kid."..."A breath of fresh air, in a furnace of pop hell."..."The female version of Maynard James Keenan."..."A rabid bad-ass!"
~ Various listeners, locally & internationally.
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***THINGS I am
REALLY into LATELY***
(in no particular order)
1. polkdadots
2. Pecans
3. twelve part harmonies
4. rearranging
5. 'Lemonade Girl,' by Drake Sherman
6. Horse Hands
7. trying to sleep
9. small lamps
10. the mandolin
11. new shoes
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