About Me
FALLING OUT OF TIME, my debut album, is a lifelong dream come true, thanks to my son Sam, who got me started again, and my partner Anne, who has loved and encouraged me through this long process. I learned to play piano when I was young, but hated recitals so stopped lessons after about 6 years. Picked up guitar and sang all those wonderful folk songs from Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Judy Collins, Peter Paul and Mary, then Carly Simon. At college I majored in voice, but I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer! Dreamed I could make a go of folk-singing, started to write some songs, perform a little, but it wasn't my time back then. I published some poetry, wrote 5 novels (unpublished), a screenplay (won a prize) and then, finally, the music started pouring out. Song-writing and singing seem to speak most to and from my heart. The songs come from a deep place, and I hope that, while personal, they speak to the universal. In my 'paying' work life, I was a teacher for 25 years and then trained teachers to teach kids to read. I've lived in Germany, Seattle, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Vermont, New York City and Bridgehampton. No question I've lived a bunch of lives in this lifetime. My plan is to ride this dream just as far and wide as I can. It is a dream of joy.My thanks to some fabulous people who helped get this album made. Jon Cunard (aka Bear) worked with me since the summer of 2007, recording the demo album in a back bedroom of my house. Jon is a brilliant technician with a big heart, and he brought my singing to a new place. Jon introduced me to Alex Sterling, who has the finest ear, is a technical wiz, and harbors a deep old soul in a young body. As we worked together, the album grew. I wrote arrangements for trumpet, cello and violin. They wrote arrangements for bass, organ, electric guitar. We worked and reworked all of these, then invited a couple of wonderful musicians to play. Aaron Neigher played trumpet and drums; Caleigh Drane played cello; and Richard Hendriksen played the violin. Jon recorded bass, electric guitar and some accoustic, and Alex worked on programmed drums and organ. And then they did their mixing magic, which speaks for itself. The album ended up at Scott Hull Mastering in the great hands of Richard Morris, a sensitive and brilliant mastering engineer.
