A Day In The Life – Katherine Etzel
Produced by Roger Greenawalt at Shabby Road Studio, Brooklyn – April 20, 2012
Katherine Etzel – Vocals
Roger Greenawalt – Mele Tenor Ukulele
Katherine Etzel
“I am a lover of many things…good friends, sci-fi, baseball, dogs, flying trapeze, Perugia, and of course, music. I hail from Fort Dodge, Iowa, but as soon as I realized I would never play Major League Baseball, I left to explore the rest of the country, performing all kinds of music along the way, from jazz to punk. I’ve worked with lots of nice folk…some well known, most, small fish, and I find very little distinction between the two when it comes to formidable musical passion. I’m a big believer in experimenting within and across genres, but a beautiful melody consistently does me in. I currently perform with the NYC folk/Americana band Bobtown and hope to release a solo CD in the winter of 2012-2013.”
I’ll Follow The Sun – Shannon Hurley
Produced By Roger Greenawalt and Shannon Hurley
A Bi-Coastal Recording
Shannon Hurley – Vocals
Roger Greenawalt – Mele Tenor Ukulele, French Horn
Named one of Rolling Stone’s best 25 artists on MySpace upon the debut of “Ready to Wake Up”, she is back with more indie-singer-songwriter folky sweetness on her latest album”California”. She is also 1/2 the electronic duo Lovers & Poets. Her voice can be heard on EDM tracks like “Sun Gone Down”, “Lost in Space”, and “I Want to Believe”. Her songs have been supported by Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, and Judge Jules on BBC 1 Radio.
Recently Shannon’s songs have been heard on ABC’s “The Lying Game”, CW’s “90210″, the Style Network’s “Giuliana & Bill”, Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance”, and the Food Network.
Imagine – Soweto Soleil
Produced By Roger Greenawalt at Shabby Road Studio
Recorded live in 4 takes this is take 4.
Soweto Soleil – Vocals
Roger Greenawalt – Mele Tenor Ukulele
I know, I know. Imagine is not a Beatle’s song per se. But it is John Lennon’s Sermon On The Mount. Imagine is a pillar of the canon. It’s message is impeccable, and true. Yesterday I was interviewed for Bill Moyers Journal while marching with my ukulele during MayDay demonstrations in New York. Of all the songs in the world, the one I noodled as I spoke to the camera was the intro to Imagine. Because there really are no countries, the concept of a nation is a meme/virus that infects living primate brains. Religion, ditto. Private Property, check. Our greatest poverty is one of Imagination.
Imagine that.
West African Reggae Legend Soweto Soleil will be going on tour this summer to Switzerland, France, West Africa, and South Africa. He will be performing new materials he has written that will be on his forthcoming album.
He has recently recorded the Beatle song “Imagine”, with his good friend music guru Roger Greenawalt.
You can catch Soweto Soleil on the Internet at www.sowetosoleil.com.
Long Long Long – Todd Carter
Produced by Roger Greenawalt at Shabby Road Studio, Brooklyn
Todd Carter – Vocals, Piano, Guitar
Tony Graci – Steel Guitar, Drums
Roger Greenawalt – Mele Tenor Ukulele, Fender Chatterbox Bass
Todd is in a band called the The Looking. He spends time in his studio or with his wife and children. His musical output has been characterized as “cracked ice in sunshine” and as “an oar out of season”.
His latest loves are the roles of Siegmund, Lohengrin and Parsifal.
Hey Jude – Johanna Chase
Produced by Roger Greenawalt April 14, 2012 at Shabby Road Studio, Brooklyn
Recorded live in first take
Vocals – Johanna Chase
Mele Tenor Ukulele – Roger Greenawalt
Urban Folk Records – Artist: Johanna Chase
Folk-rock singer and songstress, Johanna Chase uses the arts of music and storytelling to share ideas of empathy, community, and humility with others. Framed in feminist perspective and abstract biblical poetics, her lyrics are deeply personal and rigorously political-distinguishing her as an honest and passionate artist. Her elegant wordplay over her powerful guitar work resonates with many and serves to inspire.
In Bothell, Washington, some 20 miles northeast of Seattle, Johanna was raised in a devoted Christian household. One can bet that her first music lesson was through the childrens choir. Johannas childhood life was mainly carried out through and around the church. In fact, a major theme in Johannas music is her response to the rigor of her evangelical upbringing, which she felt conflicted with her views on sexual liberation, freedom of choice, and self-acceptance. This is a huge part of her personal struggle, which manifests itself in her music.
We need to change/ for we perpetuate that things we hate/ we are only speaking
(Just Speaking, Azusa, 2008)
Johanna has successfully self-released and self-distributed five LPs under her name as well as her most recent “Two Sides” EP, recorded in her community studio that she helped build in Los Angeles in 2010. Produced by Chase and engineered, mixed and mastered by Robert DeLong, “Two Sides” has been released on 7″ vinyl, as well as digital/online format. Performed live simultaneous by Chase (vocals, guitar), Noah Peller (upright bass) and Robert DeLong (drums, percussion), “Two Sides” showcases Chase’s musicality, style and unique voice, as a storyteller and singer.
Johanna produced and booked the first I Heart People Tour (www.iheartpeopletour.com) in August 2011, taking her 4-piece folk/funk fusion band on the road on the West Coast with her artist community friends and full sized veggie-oil bus. An experiment in community building and alternative resourcing, the tour was a success and a second I Heart People Tour is anticipated in the fall of 2012. The tour was documented in film format, which can be viewed on the tour’s .com.
Chase toured various west coast venues for the remainder of 2011 and the spring of 2012 as well as toured the east coast in the spring of 2012 and made an appearance at Austin’s SXSW. She will be returning to the studio sometime in 2012 to record her next LP.
(Visit www.johannachase.com for the full bio)
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I Want To Hold Hold Your Hand – Terre Roche
Produced by Roger Greenawalt at Shabby Road Studio.
Recorded live in 8 takes. This is mostly the last take.
Terre Roche – Vocals
Roger Greenawalt – Mele Tenor Ukulele
I Want To Hold Your Hand is the song that began all the madness in America in early 1964. It sounded like nothing before it. Rarely does one song change the world. I Want To Hold Your Hand did. Don’t hear it much on the radio or in public anymore, The Beatles themselves rendered this style of music and production obsolete.
Now I would like to alert all you generous enlightened darlings out there to Terre’s current Kickstarter campaing at
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1580044870/afro-jersey?ref=email
Her new act Afro-Jersey is amazing and should the campaign succeed I (Roger Greenawalt) will be recording their debut alum!
Terre Roche has had a long career as a singer, songwriter and guitar player. For many years she worked with her two sisters in their folk trio The Roches. She is currently a member of “Afro-Jersey” along with Sidiki Conde and Marlon Cherry. “Afro-Jersey” melds American and West African Folk Music featuring lyrics in both Mandingo and English. This percolating new sound meets in the middleground of two diverse cultures with songs about the concerns of human beings in a globally networking world. An organic sense of humor springs from the condition of these band members all being slightly out of their elements. “Afro-Jersey” is psyched to be making its first CD with Roger Greenawalt producing. Roger and Terre worked many moons ago on John Moran’s opera the Manson Family, of which Roger was the producer and in which Terre sang the role of Squeaky Fromme.
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