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Emily Stratton

About Me

Emily grew up in a house that was always filled with music. Her father played and listened to and folk and bluegrass, and her sister listened to indie rock. Emily learned to sing to her sister's suzuki tapes in the car. She sang along to the Lion King soundtrack every morning on the way to primary school, where she soon became an accomplished trombone player. Because of the difficulties associated with singing, and playing trombone simultaniously, she decided to learn to play guitar (her father's Martin, when he was not looking of course). She played a lot of Pearl Jam at the wee hours of the morning and she quickly became the coolest girl in the neighborhood! MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 05/05/2006
Band Members: Emily Stratton: Guitar and Vocals
Influences: Big Star, The Charlatans UK, The Connells, Elliott Smith, Wilco, Iron and Wine, Interpol, Ryan Adams, WhiskeyTown, The Posies, Jay Farrar, Neil Young, Roxy Music, The Smiths, Travis, R.E.M. (early), The Concretes, Yeah yeah yeahs, The Lemonheads, Uncle Tupelo, The Stone Roses, Liz Phair, The Replacements...
Sounds Like: Listen, I don't really know, but it would be awesome if you would tell me!
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Bands and the bad economy

The economy sucks and since I can't find a job with my glorious collage degree I have decided to just do what I have always wanted to do and be a musician when I grow up. As of late, this dream has l...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:55:00 GMT

On the findings of humanities indescrepincies and utter rediculousness.

I have recently been thinking through my views on love. I am beginning to wonder if for most people, love isn't simply hanging around someone and then being pissed off because you miss them, then in ...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:19:00 GMT

means to an end

I gave a friend some advise today and it crossed my mind that while I knew that regardless of the specific justifications for my advise, it was still good advise, I wondered what my justifications wer...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:51:00 GMT

Europe

So I am in mine vaterland! I am staying in Germany with my friends and it is amazing. Not to take away from the splendor of the beautiful England, but the food in Germany is amazing! Tonight I went...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:31:00 GMT

New Song

Ok, so you guys, I have to say that I am really super excited about a new song I am writing. It is so catchy that it keeps being in my head! It is one of the only songs that I have ever written and ...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:55:00 GMT

flight school

So, I started a new song the other day that surprised me! The chord structure doesn't exactly stay as simple as I usually try to keep it. However, it is becoming harder to fit everything together. ...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:04:00 GMT

songs and kisses

So I rerecorded Moonshiner a couple days ago, for the main purpose of getting the word "whiskey" to be audible. I don't know, it seems like it is a rather important word in that song...I don't know w...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:58:00 GMT

ok, now grapes that are super

Ok, so my last entry was longer than expected so I decided that each of these topics was important enough for their own blog. Grapes are a wonderful fruit, they taste great by themselves, they can ma...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:02:00 GMT

Songs and special grapes!

So today at work I heard an old gem! Although it was a cover of an old gem, seeing as they really didn't change anything it brought back memories. It brought back memories of the innocence of middle ...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:55:00 GMT

I'm so awsome!

So a couple nights ago I spent like 8 hours with my friend Ian recording my awesome new song! It is called Untouchable and I think when it is done it will be amazing! There can still be a lot of stu...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:12:00 GMT