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My names are Jeanna, Gina Bina, Gina Bi(na2)nda,(Binananda) antu, Life....
I'm a small town gal from Grangeville Idaho.
I have a web design business, and a house painting business, anything to get buy in this strange world.
My biggest love is writing poetry and lyrics and music to songs, and working with other musicians.
I have two bands here in Strangeville.
Little g and Nobody Famous.
Little g is the rock band and has a new CD out called Cu-SeeMe. It is a CD of 9 original songs.
The songs are Rock, Country Rock, Reggae Rock, Latin feel, and Blues styles.
You can listen to mp3 teasers for each song and buy the CD here: Little g
Little g is a band of 5 people who live on the Camas Prairie in Idaho. We all joined together to bring some of the songs that I have written into the rock world. Or reggae, and even a touch of Latin...What ever comes through and I can capture...
One song I think is a 60's PoP song.
The band got together to play music, anything, and it turned out they all liked my songs so much they decided to build a studio and record the songs. We went through a drummer Tom Fronk and a guitar player; Bo on Guitar, both of these musicians laid a nice foundation on each song's arrangement.
Kelly and Mike are dear friends who have been vital in this music venture. Mike plays bass and Kelly sings backup. Mike is so versatile; he and Kelly are in my other band we call Nobody Famous.
Rick and Jamie are out-of-towners. Rick lives 15 miles away outside of Cottonwood, and Jamie, our drummer, lives 50 miles away in Orofino.
Rick plays lead and acoustic guitar and runs the studio.
He kept upgrading equipment and we ended up with a pretty good sound.
Since Jamie lives so far away, we utilized our new technology to make a studio CD.
4 of us went into Rick’s studio and put down a scratch tape of a couple songs to a click track.
Jamie played and recorded his drums and sent the recording back to Rick’s studio.
Rick and Mike went in and recorded the base and lead guitar, (on a few I came in and played acoustic), and then us gals... Kelly and I went in and laid down our vocal tracks.
Rick and Jamie did the mix down and we have our entertaining product!
The CD took 2.5 years with everyone working day jobs; we kept it up pretty well.
We met Jamie once before we rehearsed and had our CD release party during the town’s music festival, after 3 years.
Our first rehearsal was really something. We'd all worked on these 9 songs for so long even though we'd never played together, we all had a really good session.
We all get along so well.
The songs:
The Door ends up being multi-dimensional. Originally I wrote it about a conflict with a friend I was living with. Or it is about our situation in the US. Ultimately it's about utilizing love.
Journey is about our lives. Originally it was written about a man I loved and my hopes. It changed into a song for all my friends. Us gals really like journey. We sing it in the Nobody Famous band too.
Tell Her the Truth is a song I just kept hanging onto. A rare thang. It stayed with me for 3 days, till I wrote it down and played out the rhythm I heard.
My lover was on holiday and found a new "friend".
I know the words reveal a lot.
How understanding, how demanding, how foolish. But ladies, I'm not the only one who sings it.
Willing (To see things differently) is what I attempt to do when the world just gets me down. Believe it or not singing the song with passion helps.
Cu-SeeMe is a software program I used in the 90's. I was in a spiritually and intellectually intense somewhat brutal relationship. I got out. I found him again on the Internet entertaining the ladies with his humor and depth in a cyber room on Cu-SeeMe. (This was before IM and other messengers were able to send and receive video).
Seeing this love amongst others in a video room was great. It was safe way to enjoy his wit and creative mind, without any physical threat.
He was really happy and funny, and I enjoyed the whole experience. I wrote this song for this experience. But it changes… I think of my son and his direction sometimes, especially when I'm worried, but mostly when I sing it now I present it to everyone when I'm singing it. "You found it love, you've found it."
Sweet Words is my divorce song.
It's the best that I could do, thinking the thoughts I thunk.
Not necessarily the best move for anyone involved.
I've made a lot of mistakes.
We all got by.
Sweet Words.
What do we do was written off the phrase: "We twist it and turn it."
It just happened to be, when a friend of mine said it, with just the right elixir in my blood, was moved to write a spontaneous poem. I brought it over to my friend Marlene's house and she played a rhythm it. We wrote the song in 20 minutes, even with the bridge.
Marlene is an incredible singer songwriter in her own right.
The song is deep.
Obsession was written at 3 am with considerable force.
I had gone to bed early in the morn, after having a naked intellectual spiritual session with many folks in the Biker Bar on CU-SeeMe, years ago. Honest I helped a couple of guys through some pretty tough stuff. I had just had an intensive session with someone called unforgiven, I think, and he was saying, "yeah yeah, I know I know but it's harder to do than to say."
I knew this was true.
I went to bed about 2 am feeling unsettled.
At 3 am I woke up with a start. The song was playing in my head, Intro and all. I wrote the song in a half an hour.
The original words were: I lost my job see and the love of my life...They are different now, more directed towards the obsession focus.
I think it's mostly that I saw so much of myself in the depression, obsession, focused refusal and inability to see.
(Kind of like a politician...tehe)
Many people who have heard this song like it the first time they hear it. So many of us relate….
Buy Buy Love's first verse is about a situation that my son encountered with his wealthy grand folks. To be honest his grandmother is not like this as much as was perceived at the time. But the second verse was and is what happened to my husband in his first marriage.
An epiphany wrote the last verse as a universal question and answer......?
Just the way I see it.
There you have the inside track on the 9 songs on the Little g Cu-SeeMe album.
Nobody Famous is made up of Mike Johnson on Bass, Kelly Johnson vocals, Margot Peterson, vocals, Maj-Grit (Barbara) vocals and style, Tim Sands keyboard, Mike Martin drums (he usually plays a single snare), and Jeanna Gollihur vocals.
We play a variety of styles, mostly original songs written by Jeanna and Margot.
The image on this site is of us gals doing our grunge barbie song in insta-sexy t-shirts at a festival in Strangeville.
Nobody Famous will have a CD of new original songs coming out next... look forward to a new new release!
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