on the record... a big thankyou to... Don Heffington, Daryl Johnson, Doug Pettibone, Steve Collins, Peter Antasoff, Mark Howard, Michael Villegas, Fuzzbee, Michael Chavez...
Influences
Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits, Emmy-Lou Harris, Gillian Welch, Leonard Cohen, Eminem...
Morphine and Cupcakes is the debut album from Emily O’Halloran. Produced by Mark Howard (Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits).
Emily grew up on a hippy commune on the north coast of Australia, leaving home at fourteen, and spending the following years hitchhiking around the country.
Home was anywhere from the desert of the Northern Territory, to the washes of the Antarctic waters of Tasmania. Home was friends and strangers. Houses were filled with dogs, children and music. People passed through. Life was lived day to day.
The last few years have seen Emily call New York home, where she read her poetry in the coffee houses and basements of the village, and busked in the subways and outside the Chelsea Hotel.
It was by chance that Mark Howard heard some rough demos; they made plans to meet up, cut a track and see how the vibe was… Emily was in Australia, Mark was in Mexico…they met in LA and one track turned into 10… They have recorded wherever they ended up. Living rooms, airstreams, tree houses, and high-end studios…
It is a record of haunting beauty, washes of melancholy, grey skies, dark and stormy with streaks of blue, pools of blood… It is story telling with an undercurrent of sarcasm, sadness laced with spits of venom… and tears, tears like a fallen bottle of wine… It is a desperate romance, a desolate landscape.
It is waking up not for yourself but for all your dead friends that cant, a room with a mattress on the floor, stained sheets and an ashtray. Rain on the tin roof when you are a child.
It is lovers laying together when they know its not gonna work but cant bear to leave…
Of knowing yourself to well… the sound of streets in the dark of night when the rain has washed everything away and all that moves is the streetlamps…
Featuring world-renowned musicians, Daryl Johnson (Bob Dylan, Daniel Lanois, Emmy-Lou Harris), Don Heffington (Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams), Doug Pettibone (Lucinda Williams), Peter Atanasoff (Rickie Lee Jones) and Steve Collins (Deadman).
Morphine and Cupcakes is a doped up serenade for the Bonnie’s, the Clyde’s, the lovers and the thieves… It is desert music, well past midnight in an old pick up truck when you don’t know where the ground ends and the stars begin…
Hey, thanks for dropping by.....!!! Hope all is going really well for you? I am sorry I am not as attentive as I normally am...life is a bit hectic at the moment, just remixed one of my songs today, still haven't got it back up...same beast, different sound.... Let me know what you think of my tunes...
