The Cure, Tom Waits, Holden Caulfield, the wilderness, hard-working folks-the keepers of inspiration, Daniel Johnston, Alessi, Simon and Garfunkel, Scorpions, Alela Diane, Mariee Sioux, Louis Armstrong, Fleetwood Mac, Will Oldham, Whitesnake, Hayao Miyazaki, Depeche Mode, Erasure, OMD, Bat for Lashes, forests and pine trees, The Pogues, White Lion, The Cars, INXS, Def Leppard, Heart, CCR, MGMT, The Knife, Ryan Adams, Yaz, trains and full moons, haunted places,
family, travelin', the bayou, Joni Mitchell,
Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake,
80's ballads and hair, The Arcade Fire, Jacob Golden,
Karl Blau,
Bob Dylan,
Spoon,
my beautiful music friends,
the spirit of gratitude for this life
and all it gives and takes away
"Be like the little children"
If you would like our album Fight Your Broken Heart and Fly, it is available through CD Baby at this link
Currently we are working on a new album, In The Wake Of ESP, to be released this Halloween (sorry we know it's been pushed back like 10,000 times but we have been having a little TOO much fun)!.
We live in the mountains of California, and can feel the old rowdy ghosts of miners creeping through the streets at night. I try to write fragments of the heart of the Golden West into our songs. But I also write with my obsessions for all things weird and mysterious, magic, Louisiana swampness, swimming and runnin' through the wild, true love, and my total gratitude for being alive.
I started playing piano at age 6, and through my teen years I performed in many musicals. But it took years to figure out the courage to get on the stage with MY OWN music and lyrics, it's the fucking scariest thing I ever did, but now I'm over it (or pretend to be).....Growing up I listened to all different kinds of music. And I still do. Basically, I just like MUSIC. I don't think one kind is way better than another. OK- maybe monster ballads and guitar solos and new wave songs from the 80's are actually radder than everything else. ....... but seriously, I am sick of musical isolation, where groups of people are completely narrowminded to any other kind of music but one or two. Yeah, not into that. Not into being super-cool hipster type....AT ALL. People are amazing. We need to be kind to each other. Very very kind.
Art and I have played in Coal Beautiere since 2006. Then we got married. We met in Nevada City in 2004 and Art was completely encouraging of my scrappy ragtime-ish ghost jingles. I needed a hand on stage. Hence, our little duo was born.
Thanks for the true hearts who use kindness daily. Coal Beautiere (the name) has it's origins from a road trip to the truth of Lafayette, Louisiana and means "TREASURE ONLY WHAT IS REAL AND CAN WITHSTAND TIME". We know, despite the cynics, that we WILL change the world by increasing our love. Love conquers all. And so it goes.
On more important notes, some quotes by some smarty-pants people like-
Tom Waits:
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
Edward Abbey:
Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.
Us nature mystics got to stick together.
A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.
There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
And Jack Kerouac:
The only ones for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time.....
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
And by us, the infamous coal beautiere:
There's pretty much, like, NO good luck in life....it's all sweaty ass hard work that gets ye anywhere.
Make art that saves people from hopelessness and fear.
Grandparents had another think coming.
GO WATCH TIM AND ERIC on ADULT SWIM!
Treat others with honor and respect, all others, the earth, all life.
My Dear Coal Beautiere, I want you to know that your music and your songs are my passion. I am addicted. There is something that pulls me towards them. Keep it up Coal Beautiere. Di PS:Follow Me Twitter at http://twitter.com/iaent
Hello Coal Beautiere, Whenever I listen to your music. I feel like singing too. But your talent is unmatched. How much time you spend to rehearse per day Coal Beautiere? Love ya. Di PS:Follow Me Twitter at http://twitter.com/iaent
On Oct 3, a fantastic gathering occurred within a cafe-sized room canopied by trees. The Gypsy Camp is a long-visited place within El Escorpion Park in West Hills - long overdue to be utilized as a unique venue for live music.
It was the beginning of a new series of acoustic shows that bring bands out of bars and clubs, friends and musical enthusiasts out of the house on a saturday afternoon, and a unique and magical experience to everyone involved.
If this looks like a good time to you, please tell people about it, and join us for Gypsy Camp The Second on Saturday, Nov. 14. Prepare yourself with a cooler and blanket and an afternoon to enjoy some great music.
"When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender, of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries." - Kenneth Grahame, 'The Wind in the Willows'
hello dear Coal Beautiere - I send you Brooklyn Greetings and invite you to listen to 3 new songs I patched together in Garageband and posted on MyGhostSpace. Hope you are both enjoying the change of season and each other. Peas!
