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courtney yasmineh
Alternative / Experimental / Pop

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minneapolis,
United States

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   courtney yasmineh: General Info
Member Since11/30/2007
Band Website

courtneyyasmineh.com

Band MembersCourtney Yasmineh has recorded and performed with fine musicians Dean Magraw, Dirk Freymouth, Bill Mike, Jim Anton, Charley Drayton, Rob Genadek, Enrique Toussaint, Jeff Victor, JT Bates, Noah Levy, James Buckley, Matt Novachis, Jon Herchert, Joshua Stookey, John Lemkuhl, Will Charleton

THIS SPRING COURTNEY WILL BE OUT AND ABOUT WITH A NEW TRIO: COURTNEY ON ELECTRIC AND ACOUSTIC GUITARS AND VOCALS, ROB GENADEK ON DRUMS AND SAMPLES FROM THE NEW RECORD, AND BILL MIKE WITH HIS ARSENAL OF ELECTRIC GUITARs AND EXTREME COLLECTION OF EFFECTS

InfluencesCourtney Yasmineh's songwriting has been influenced by the work of Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, early Elton John, John Lennon, Stevie Nicks, Paul Simon's Graceland record, Peter Gabriel's solo work, Suzanne Vega, Joan Jett, Nancy Griffith, The Gin Blossoms, The Wallflowers, Bright Eyes, one song from Folk Implosion, Kanye West's first record, Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois on Wrecking Ball, Billy Jo Armstrong's writing on the American Idiot record, the Dixie Chicks last record, Tegan and Sara, the Clash, Annie Lennox, Amy Winehouse, Cheryl Crow........... the list is constantly expanding...........................................................................................................
Sounds Likesuzanne vega, joan osborne, sam phillips, the pretenders, natalie merchant, lucinda williams
Record LabelStupid Bitch Records
Type of LabelIndie





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Aug 8 2008 8:00P
the Bookcase Bookstore presents Courtney Yasmineh, Nina Yasmineh, w/Rob Genadek and Mark Juenemann Wayzata, Minnesota
Aug 15 2008 8:00P
Bunker’s trio show with Keri Noble and her new band Minneapolis, Minnesota

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   About courtney yasmineh
Courtney writes gritty, flirty, honest, sometimes sad sometimes mad songs, that embrace the universal tug of war between love and independence.

In the spring of 2008 she will release a brand new collection of her most innovative and yet accessible material to date. Working with long time collaborator, the nationally acclaimed producer Rob Genadek, Courtney has distilled her collection of new songs down to eleven luminous tracks.

All of Courtney’s recordings are available on cdbaby

Courtney’s background in her own words:

I grew up in Chicago in the sixties, daughter of a mafia style inner city Italian father and a Swedish ice princess mother. I sang my first solo at eight in the church balcony on Christmas eve with a white robe and a battery candle..away in a manger. My mother said she couldn’t understand why she had a show off for a daughter when no one else in the family was a musician. I performed my first original song on guitar at that same Lutheran church at twelve and my parents just shook their heads. They didn’t even go to church except on Christmas and Easter but I was obsessed with the choir and the music and the organ...everything...the sheer mysticism of the stained glass windows.

In 1977 my father was indicted by the SEC for insider trading and disappeared. My mom flipped out, my big brother was already out of the house reading Sartre and traveling around France working in vineyards and trying to write a truly great story about our family’s nightmare of the American dream. (He had studied French Lit and Philosophy at Carleton College.) The bank liquidated my father’s assets to pay back investors and came to put price tags on everything in our house. I stole one of my dad’s Jaguars before the bank got it and drove twelve hours due north, destination Lake Vermilion. I was sixteen.

While my mom stood in the driveway of our family home and cried as our own neighbors walked out of our house with everything we owned (the bank even sold my toys and my clothes out of my closet), I landed at my grandfather’s cabin.

My grandfather had died and the property was my mom’s inheritance, not marital property, so the bank couldn’t get at it. I spent my senior year there, with frozen pipes and a wood-stove, skied out every morning to where the road plow quit, to meet the school bus. I graduated with eighteen other fine young scholars from Tower School; half the kids were from the reservation and the other half were the iron ore miners’ kids.

The principal of that school, who’s name I wish I could remember, called me into his office around the time of my eighteenth birthday and said, "Look, I know you’ve been lying and your parents are not out there with you. But you’re a fine student with excellent transcripts. You need to go to college." By this time I had learned a bunch of Dylan songs and had written a few more of my own and was playing around to make money. I was an unusual act, a seventeen year old girl from Chicago playing Dylan in Dylan territory in the late seventies. I used to say, at the time, that when you were up on stage in an Iron Range bar you had to keep kicking away the hands of the drunk Rangers so they wouldn’t reach up and grab your ankles.

Anyway, the principal bought me a Greyhound bus ticket for St. Paul and said to go to Macalester College there and tell the head of the English department that he sent me. I took the bus, I walked in February through St. Paul asking people where the school was. I was wearing red long-johns that hadn’t been washed in a month under my jeans and sweater. I found the place, and a guy I will never forget..Roger Blakely...heard my story. I told him I wanted to write songs and stories and that I wouldn’t mind teaching high school English because after being in a big rich school in Chicago and a tiny poor school on the Canadian border, that I had seen good teachers and bad in both places.

Roger took me to the financial aid office that day and said to the director, "Wait ’til you hear this." The financial aid people were really nice to me, everybody was. I was pretty shell-shocked by then and had a chip on my shoulder, so all I kept saying was, "Look it’s not that big of a deal...I’m fine." They sent me back to the cabin with Sinclair Lewis’ Main Street and Charles Dickens’ Bleak House (to supplement my senoir year education) and made me a promise that I’d be there in the fall, that they’d work something out. They did. They gave me a full academic scholarship. Those people saved my ass. I loved my four years at their school. I never complained about the cafeteria once. After eating peanut butter sandwiches for a year and a half, the place was heaven.

So I did teach high school English, and I kept writing songs, and I tried to find a soul mate man who would love me. I made a few mistakes, but ended up here, in a happy house that I share with three fine developing young individuals, all of whom I love with all my heart. And now I finally have time to get this music thing right.


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Aug 26 2008 6:48 PM

Hey Courtney!!! Thank u for being my friend!!!
xo
Al Stone





Aug 26 2008 1:55 AM

how you been mama? Long time no talk, let me know what you up to and shit, I got a bunch of new songs up on my page>.....>.
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The Moon Goons/JOHNS BIRFDAY FRIDAY & SO ELECTRIC





Aug 21 2008 6:38 AM

8-22 (MOONGOONS & SOUND IN MOTION PRESENT LA RIOTS IN THE MAIN ROOM AT FIRST AVE)


RSVP:http://www. moongoons. com/LARIOTS Facebook Event:http://www. facebook. com/event. php?eid=25637490571
philippe hermann





Aug 20 2008 8:46 AM

carlfranzen





Aug 20 2008 5:34 AM

I'll be on radio. I'll be at Vera's. You can be anywhere. Plug 208. 109. 24. 34:8020/listen. pls into your browser or go to TwinCitiesRadio. net. Better yet, show up on the patio with the sun going down. 2901 Lyndale S. Wednesday, August 20.
Jen♦Allen





Aug 7 2008 4:21 AM

Thanks for adding us to your friends. Stop by anytime.
Jen and Al
Mark





Aug 6 2008 9:17 PM

I think that there was a wee bit of tension in the air last night. It was still go to see you.
Will Charlton





Jul 29 2008 1:22 AM

nah man.
i quit that effin place:)
n' Kaily was her nam'o





Jul 25 2008 9:48 PM

yes I would love to and my computer is not fixed yet :( but I can use my boyfriends who has a better program then mine anyways :) Lets talk soooon and start working on it, sound good? Glad to hear your well
n' Kaily was her nam'o





Jul 23 2008 8:41 PM

HOwz you doing Courtney? Hope your having a GREAT summer :)
OXOX
Peace & Love
Will Dicke





Jul 20 2008 4:24 PM

Hello your music is great! Please check out my music and enjoy!!! -Will Dicke
Francesco Sansalone





Jul 15 2008 9:34 AM

ciao
thanks
have a great day my friend
if you want you can downloads my songs from myspace's player in my profile

:-)
if you want come in my page and add yourself on my frapper map friends
kisses
Will Charlton





Jul 8 2008 7:18 PM

michele and i stayed at fitgers last sunday. it's newly renovated. fyi.
love you:)
Mark





Jun 30 2008 3:40 AM

Well, it finally happened. We were able to play some music together. I had a wonderful time. thank you so much for everything. I am really looking forward to playing this show with you and Nina. Thanks for dinner. And thanks for the wonderful conversation. I will be seeing you soon.

MJ
Maarvin





Jun 28 2008 8:13 PM

Courntey,

I just had a listen through your songs. Absolutely fantastic music! I really enjoyed both the songs and the performance, and you have a great voice!

All the best of luck!

Sincerely,

/Maarv
I don't often get people...





Jun 25 2008 2:14 AM

hey Courtney!..it's Kyle..I'm gonna try and see you on Friday. Long..Long..FAR TOO long since I've seen or talked to you! Missed ya! -[
Brian Bethke





Jun 22 2008 10:47 PM

Hey there! We are playing June 24th at the Fine Line in Minneapolis, MN let me know if your comming here is a link to print FREE tickets for you and your friends!

http://www. finelinemusic. com/calendar/view_entry. php?id=346&date=20080624
Dr. Sketchy's Twin Cities





Jun 19 2008 12:49 AM

Hello Courtney Yasmineh,
Here's to drinking, drawing & debauchery! Don't miss the next session of Dr. Sketchy's Twin Cities THIS SUNDAY at The 331 Club. Hosted by Ian Rans, feature Gina Louise & Sweetpea from Lili's Burlesque Revue and the musical stylings of DJ Liberty Finch. Pre-registration is well underway. Hope to see you there!
Cheers,
-Dr.
Sketchy's Twin Cities
Dr. Sketchy's Twin Cities





May 22 2008 6:54 PM

Hello Courtney Yasmineh,
Here's to drinking, drawing & debauchery! Don't miss the next session of Dr. Sketchy's Twin Cities THIS SUNDAY at The 331 Club. Hosted by Ian Rans, featuring Miss Ascentia & Tomahawk Tassels. Pre-registration is underway.
Hope to see you there!
Karen Vieno Paurus





May 16 2008 3:51 PM

Thank you so much...come to The Front this evening if you can, 9 p.m. Old school funk, dancing and adult bevvies!
KVP
xxoxoxox
Al Stone





May 14 2008 12:05 AM

Its a new marketing campaign, yep, where the hell is that clubhourse jagermeister place?
Tim





May 13 2008 3:08 PM

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Great to meet you - great music !!!

Cheers :)

Tim
n' Kaily was her nam'o





May 13 2008 3:36 AM

:) Thanks Courtney! SOoo super glad you like them..... Makes me smile! Ohh!! My computer broke!! So it will be muuch harder to make more for you.... :( sad
Enjoy your weeek and the sun!
OXOX
Al Stone





May 13 2008 3:01 AM

HI, talk to me I miss your interpretation of our songs
Kelsy





May 13 2008 2:57 AM

Hey Courtney! Thanks for the invite to your show on Friday.. I would love to hear your music! Hopefully I can make it. Talk soon..
Karen Vieno Paurus





May 9 2008 2:57 PM

Sweet! June 19th will be fun!
Hot Swing Combo





Apr 27 2008 4:54 PM

Courtney, listening to your music and seeing your live performance was a beautiful experience, but not lonely. Great material and really strong live show!

Thanks for your kind words, looking forward to the next show!

Robert
X Ray Hip





Apr 26 2008 1:19 AM

Hey Courtney,

Long time no see. Your new songs sound great. Would love to hear some more. I wanna hang with you and Rob G some night at the Brewhouse. Let's try to get this show thing happening at some point too.

Take care,

Tags
Mark





Apr 24 2008 1:01 AM

What can I say. Another great evening spent with my friend Courtney Yasmineh. We don't solve any world issues, but the conversations are a real treat. And it is job security for the employees of AZIA. Someone has to keep them in business. Thanks again. I had a wonderful time. Talk to you soon. See you at the show.
JerryPodwil aka Jerome





Apr 22 2008 12:14 AM

That's true, but then, of course, there's the return trip to consider.
Frankly, I don't know if I have that kind of energy anymore:-).
Knock em dead!

J