Member Since: 1/14/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/carpentry101
Band Members: Cathy Stewart-songwriter/performer (BMI)
Here is the concept for the second EP due out later this year!
It is always an honor when someone else wants to sing one of your songs. Emily Eutsey singing "Here I Am" at the memorial field trial for her Brother Chris Jr., who lost his life last year when a deer came through the windshield of his car ironically on his way to go hunting. The trial was a huge success, and raised a lot of money for the Chris Eutsey Jr Memorial Scholorship Fund, that will provide college funding for young men and women involved in the sport of beagling. It truly warmed my heart to be able to be a part of it in some small way. and warmed my heart to hear this little girl sing this song...
Influences: "Don’t hail me and don’t idolize the ink...." Axl Rose-"Don’t Damn Me"
"Ya can’t write if you can’t relate...get crazy with the Cheez Whiz..." Beck "Loser"
From "That Thing You Do"-"Dell Paxton: It ain’t no way to keep a band together. Bands come and go. You gotta keep playin’, no matter with who."
"... you know what they say: You lie down with the devil, you wake up in hell." -- Horatio Caine "CSI Miami"
"One minute, you’re running the world and, the next, you’re in a six-by-six." -- Tim Speedle "CSI Miami"
"So what do you get when a six-foot-tall man lays down with a three-foot-long rifle?" "Hot flashes. But that’s just me." -- Horatio Caine and Calleigh Duquesne CSI Miami (ME TOO CAL!)
"Naked Eye" written by Pete Townshend.
"You can cover up your guts, but when you cover up your nuts
You’re admitting that there must be something wrong
Press any button, and milk and honey flows
The world begins behind your neighbor’s wall
It all looks fine to the naked eye, But it don’t really happen that way at all...........
Don’t happen that way at all...."
"Slit Skirts"-Pete Townshend
"No one respects the flame quite like the fool who’s badly burned, for a moment you’d imagine that there must be something learned..."
BIGGEST INFLUENCE IN MY MUSIC AND LIFE: JESUS CHRIST SECOND BIGGEST INFLUENCE: MY FAMILY...
as to musical influences.......
Let’s see, there are so many, starting from my early years listening to and playing music by Clifford Brown, Miles, Bird, Maynard, Dixie Dregs, Matrix, and my rock influences of The Who, Skynnyrd, Zeppelin, CCR, Guns N’ Roses, Creed, to country influences from Toby, Faith Hill, Wayne Warner, Josh Turner, Corbin Hanner, Sarah Evans, John Michael Montgomery, Johnny Cash, and the list goes on, to my education in classical music with Haydn being my favorite with Bach a close second, to my Christian favorites like Steven Curtis Chapman, Avalon, Point of Grace, plus a lot of old Country Gospel songs.
Going a little more into detail.....
Homer and Jethro and Wierd Al and Dr Demento taught me humor, Donny Osmond taught me how to match pitch, Billy Joel taught me to grow up and use the craft of words(we are talking Streetlife Seranade, Turnstiles, Cold Spring Harbor and The Stranger), John Denver taught me to find a little yee haw in my life and sparked me to learn guitar, Maynard Ferguson taught me to achieve the seemingly impossible, Bird, Trane, Prez, Clifford B, Jaco, Max R, Oscar P, Joe P, Chick, Joe Zawlinul, Stanley T, Woody, Satchmo, Brubeck etc, taught me passion for the way a tune "feels" to become a part of the creation as it happens through improvisation, and gave me a musical soul, The Dregs and Matrix taught me different is cool, Zeppelin, Skynnyrd, AC/DC, Aerosmith, and Guns n Roses taught me to rock, HARD....Pete, Rodger, Moonie and The Ox gave me a release for my angst, Dan Fogelburg and Mark Murphy showed me how powerfully music can effect one’s desires and emotions, David Bowie showed me how to look past the wierdness and enjoy the musical ride, and Gordon Sumner the lesson of versatility. There are a hundred more, but this gives you an idea........and if you don’t know who Gordon Sumner is....look it up!
Sounds Like: You should come to one of my upcoming shows and check it out!
The message in my Christian music and the sentiment in my other music are what are important to me. I write from my heart, and just hope that the proper "vehicles" come along and take the songs to the masses.
Record Label: I use stick on labels I can print on.....
Type of Label: None