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LIST PRICE
$14.98
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Format: CD
Apr 2000
Record Label: Innerstate Records
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 714288500625 |
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Details
Track Listing
1. Shiny Knight - (previously unreleased)
2. Another Train Blues
3. Black Eyed Peas - (previously unreleased)
4. Before You Were Born - (previously unreleased)
5. Take Care
6. Like I Do
7. Nina
8. Loners of America
9. Soul Singers
10. Just Like a Man
11. Hold Me up to the Light
12. Things, (Velvet) - (previously unreleased)
13. Haight St. Girl
14. His Pretty Life - (previously unreleased)
15. Ivy - (previously unreleased)
Album Notes
ONCE IN A BLUE MOON consists of previously released material as well as previously unreleased demos & outtakes.
Personnel includes: Penelope Houston (vocals, autoharp); Pat Johnson (vocals, various instruments); Steven Strauss (vocals, bass); Chuck Prophet, Eliot Nemser (guitar); Kevin Mummey (drums).
Recorded between 1990 & 1998.
In the late 1970s, Penelope Houston was the singer for one of the first--and best--San Francisco punk rock bands, the Avengers, whom she made special by combining genuine vocal quality with the rage and passion of the time. Later, in embracing a quieter sound that still kept its punch and bite, Houston mined a style joining folk and rock, an approach where a story could be sung with passion and energy.
Twenty years on with ONCE IN A BLUE MOON her voice has matured, but still isn't slick or overly sweet--imagine Mary Chapin Carpenter's older, world-wearier sister. Songs such as "Hold Me Up to the Light" and "Loners of America" have a wistful tone, while her awareness of folk music's rich traditions of restlessness and resignation is made clear with "Another Train Blues" and "Black Eyed Peas." Houston also performs a beautiful version of the Alex Chilton/Big Star classic ballad "Take Care," which conveys all you'll ever need to know about the feeling connected with the word "goodbye." With ONCE IN A BLUE MOON Penelope Houston proves that a rock performer can grow old gracefully.
Industry Reviews
...Her delicate, neo-folk arrangements boast similar lyrical strengths...to Patti Smith and Liz Phair...
CMJ (04/24/2000)
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