Sarah LeMieux: music; engineer, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion, backing vocals, production and mastering - lead vocal on Broken Stereo Remix.
Peter Adamson: lyrics; melody; lead vocal and lead vocal engineer on "Anglo-American and World Recession Blues."
Andrew Henderson: event coordinator.
Peter Adamson and Sarah LeMieux have never actually met. This is how it happened:
Sarah was browsing the twitter stream one day, and she came across Andrew Henderson, a man in the U.K. who's trying to trade up from nothing to a Rolls (or a Bentley). In his gallery of items that others had traded to him, and which he was willing to trade for something better, Sarah found and fell in love with a beautiful oil painting of a Lotus by U.K. artist Evelyn Kharag.
Sarah racked her brains for something valuable to trade, and finally proposed something she totally didn't think Andrew would go for - she would write and record an instrumental blues track and trade it to someone, anywhere in the world, who wanted a chance to write some lyrics and sing on it. Then she would fancy it up and send it on back.
Shockingly, Andrew agreed, and sent her the painting, which completes her bedroom wall.
Peter Adamson, also of the U.K., decided he really wanted the chance to sing on that song, and exchanged Andrew some valuable letters and photos for it. Peter wrote some clever and controversial lyrics, recorded a vocal, and whooshed it back over to Sarah, who mixed it in and shined it up (and late one night, did a remix, just to be the kind of person who does a remix).
So here it is, "The Anglo-American and World Recession Blues," and its younger sister, the Broken Stereo Remix. Both are for sale, the profits to be split equally between Sarah, Peter, and Mercy Corps, a really tremendous international charity organization that you can read about (and donate to) here.
Of course, you can also just listen for free, and if you have a moment, click on the buttons below and some very nice people will donate to charities without you having to spend a dime.
