Catherine Feeny (guitar/vocals), Sebastian Rogers (electric guitar), Tony Gethin (piano/wurlitzer), Tricks (drums and percussion), Paul (bass) and Ian Burdge (cello).
Influences
the smiths, ani difranco, pj harvey, the cure, sinead o'conner, paul simon, joni mitchell, sonic youth, crosby stills nash and young, edie brickell, pat benatar, dolly parton, whitney houston, emmy lou harris and a million others i can't remember right now
Sounds Like
"Feeny has made an album that any fan of Beth Orton, Lucinda Williams, Joni Mitchell and early Sheryl Crow will be happy to place on the same shelf. Her song mr Blue, all spectral piano, funereal brass and solicitous lyrics....should soon be unavoidable on radio. Hurricane Glass is one of those albums that soothes the listener into quietude with strummed guitar and mellifluous vocal lines - and only then coils its complications and ambiguities around you. "I won't bury you in the basement/As i've been know to do" soars over the sweetest of backings. You miss it first time; only later do you think: "What did she just say?".
Dan Cairns, The Sunday Times
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"I was born, third of three, to the Feeny's of Mt. Airy, Pennsylvania. Both of my parents grew up in big Irish Catholic families in Philadlephia boroughs.
"My mother was an english teacher; she inspired in me an unnatural affinity for melancholy and fiction. My father worked with his hands, painting, carpentering, fixing, and teaching me to ride my bike in the morning before school. They married a few years after my dad came back from Vietnam.
"We had a big yard. I climbed trees and drew pictures and went to school. I hung around with kids in the neighborhood. At some point, I borrowed an Ibanez electric from my uncle Michael.
"I took guitar lessons at the local music store. I learned songs by Led Zeppelin and The Cure. When I saw Sinead O'Connor's on tv, I returned the electric guitar to its rightful owner and started to play my dad's acoustic."
"I don't know why I spend my time Writing songs I can't believe With words that tear and strain to rhyme" -P. Simon, "Kathy's Song," 1965
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enjoyed listening to your songs. you should connect with Sam Buckingham and Sarah Humphreys here in Oz. very similar type of songs. best to you, wayne.
so i read your blog and i live in santa cruz, i really love your music and if you were to come up this way i am sure that i could find you a few places to play. And maybe a few more if you were intrested in going a little more north
Looks like you wowed them in LA!! You really must get in touch with the organisers of the Green Man Festival for next year!! Everyone I played your music to was blown away. You really would be perfect.
