Anne Anderson, Jenny Bell, Claire Bothwell, Sheelagh Boyce, Eamonn Brady, Jim Callaghan, Julie Callaghan, Paul English, Christine Gibson, Laura Gillespie, Esther Gillies, Martin Graham, Linsay Gray, Gill Hanlon, Lesley Hepburn, Ulric Kennedy, Chris King, Jenny Lunan, Amanda McKeown, Laura McMahon, Mandy Malcolmson, Luci Marr, Dougie Morland, Douglas Morton, Janis F. Murray, Morag Neilson, Caz Norman, Patrick Oberg, Jenny O'Boyle, Emma Olver, Jim Ramsay, Amy Redler, Vanessa Rigg, Jenni Robinson, Tania Romany, Caroline Scott, Fiona Shepherd, Gillian Shepherd, Caroline Stott, Tim Street, Donna Swabey, Jon Thomson, Alex Wilde, Caroline Wilson, Lorraine Wilson, Victoria Young.....phew
Influences
Gram Parsons, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Lorreta Lynn, Hank Locklin, Gillian Welch, Neil Young, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Handsome Family, Lee Hazlewood, Will Oldham, Devendra Banhart, Patsy Cline, Lefty Frizzel, Skeeter Davis, Alan Lomax, The Carter Family, Leadbelly, The Scuffers, Dolly Parton, The Grateful Dead, The Byrds, Cowboy Junkies, Ace Records, The Staple Singers, Cat Power, Billy Bragg, Bob Luman, Don Gibson, Frances McKee, Tarnation, Nick Cave, Calexico, Smog, Scott Walker, Tim Harding, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Gourds, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Lonnie Donegan, Leonard Cohen, Donovan, Waylon Jennings, Bruce Springstein, Wilco, Bob Dylan, Teenage Fanclub......
Sounds Like
A lot of people singing, the same song, all at once, in the same room. Rather nice actually.
Named in honour of the Grievous Angel, Mr Gram Parsons, The Parsonage is a group of around 40 Glasgow based singers which was formed at the beginning of 2006 by Janis F. Murray. We are a non-religious, mixed sex, varied of age, determinedly independent and self defining organic group. Inspiration comes from the raw, storytelling simplicity of the folk, country and blues traditions.
Our first EP, 'This Ain't No Lovey Dovey' was released December 2007 on Glasgow label OSScarr Records and is available at the OSCarr webiste http://www.optimo.co.uk.
2007 and 2008 were busy fun. Hilarious times performing in a great array of venues including backing vocals for Rod Stewart at Hampden and many summertime festivals (we had a crowd surfer - this must be a first in the world of choir!?) and wintertime singing with sad songs a plenty.
The dark nights of 2008 were devoted to accumulating a repertoire of Gram Parsons and Hank Williams songs followed by presentation of our very own Gram Parsons and Hank Williams tribute days.
It's now 2009, we're 3 years old and have performed the main stage at T In The Park and just completed recording our first album. This has 4 songs from Hank Williams and 4 from Gram Parsons. It will be entitled simply, 'Hank and Gram' and will be available in Spring 2010.
Welcome to our Parsonage thing, we hope you like the way that we sing.
Charity Baw loves The Parsonage! Thanks so much for helping to make our launch such an incredible night. We loved every minute of it. Come back to Edinburgh soon.
Christmas is coming soon. Are you looking for a Christmas present and would like to help handicapped children? Than please request the list of donations in kind from HelpCharity, www.MySpace.com/HelpCharity , by sending me an e-mail at Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de . Many donations in kind are autographed.
If you don't have the chance to request the list of donations in kind, please add HelpCharity to your Top Friends!
Thanks for helping me to support handicapped children!
Christian
Founder of HelpCharity Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 (0) 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 (0) 171 6903352 E-Mail: Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Internet: www.MySpace.com/HelpCharity Internet: www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
2's UP, it's ma fuckin birthday... TONIGHT! Free Limited Edition Print (1/50) and an 80min mix cd (1/150) to the earliest arrivals...
NOTE THAT WE ARE STARTING AT 9 THIS MONTH, TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE TREMOLO BEER GUT (all the way from Denmark) AND BIG NED (all the way from the black lodge).
This month we mostly have Catie Curtis (with a Richard Thompson cover), Lindsay Fuller and The Cheap Dates (and who amongst us isn't?), Josh Fix with a track from the well-titled album This Town Is Starting To Make Me Angry and the rather lovely Red Rooster.
Today I like to inform you, that you can read and watch interviews with your favorit country stars in Enlgish, German and French at http://www.CountryHome.de/Interviews .
Warm regards
Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
Four more little sonic gems for your August pleasure are now available on the site. Blitzen Trapper, Boulder Acoustic Society, Jay Brannan and The Wiyos. Yet another fine quartet even though we say so ourselves as picked them out.
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