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Piper McKinnon
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Hmm... sorta Norah Jones meets Eye of the Tiger by Survivor! Can't picture it? You might have to come and see a show to believe it... ever heard All Along the Watchtower played with a classical piano sound and a blues voice? Neither had I, so I tried it and it worked! Go figure!
One can hear early Bonnie Raitt in some of the covers that Piper does along with a touch of Jewel and Sarah McLachlan. FOR BOOKINGS PLEASE SEE WWW.PIPERMCKINNON.COM
One day, Piper McKinnon decided life was too short. So, she packed everything she owned into her car, and left Victoria, and headed for the east coast.
“I was on my way to Halifax, actually”, says the sprite, captivating red head. “The car had other ideas. The transmission exploded and Vancouver’s as far as I got. I fixed the car, got a place, stuck around. Thankfully it didn’t happen somewhere in rural Manitoba!”
After performing her own material at local clubs, she finally made it to the East Coast. Not Halifax, though – New York, where she has been working on her second album.
McKinnon recently returned from a second recording session in New York where she began paring down the songs destined for “Beautiful Disaster”, her second international release, due out in the Spring of 2010
McKinnon has been compared to Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Jewel, and Jeff Buckley. These are not bad comparisons. Notwithstanding, McKinnon’s music also reveals a dark side. If McKinnon’s muse were to assume physical form, it might look like one of Lucifer’s fallen angels: beautiful, brooding, scorched by the flames of an epic battle. In one of its better moods, her muse might inspire her to write something whimsical and funky, like an ode to Robert Palmer, something cool and bluesy, like Ain’t It Funny, or something exquisitely melancholy and pretty, like You Were the Man.
On a bad day, it might wake her up in the middle of the night to write a song like Demon, the sum of all her fears: losing her hands, losing her voice, losing herself.
“That was a really bad dream,” McKinnon says. Once, she even woke up to find the lyrics to a song, the Stones of Bayon, written beside her bed. “I think those songs are all sort of out there,” she says, with a wave. “I am just a conduit.”
While her earlier music was confessional and personal, lately she draws her inspiration from books she reads, like The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jesus Papers. Not that she’s religious, in particular. She just wants to understand why things like September 11 and the London subway bombing happen. “There’s a lot about the world that I think has been happening right under my nose,” she says
The daughter of a Canadian Navy petty officer, McKinnon moved around a lot when she was younger, and has lived has lived on both coasts, but grew up mainly in Victoria. In her teens, some friends dared her to get up and sing a song at a blues jam in Victoria, “Love Me Like a Man” by Bonnie Raitt. They had no idea what they were starting. The crowd demanded an encore. But the seed was planted.
And so the journey continues....
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Hey Piper! Well I didn't play in Van this summer, and as a direct result I never got say Hi to you again. So here it is ...........Hi Piper! how are things?
Oh beloved Piper McKinnonasaurus. You are the winner of the SEXIEST SCALES AWARD!!! The competition may not be quite what it was in the late cretaceous, but nevertheless YOU DID IT!!! Anyway, do we have a prize for you...our reseasoning (i.e. remix) of Goodie Mob's-Soul Food will make your cold blood a cozy lukewarm temperature...just the way us dinos like it. Enjoy, spread the word and leave us your thoughts. Also, If you are in the L.A. area come check us at The Low End Theory on Dec. 9th!!!! Happy Thanksgiving from our cave dwelling to yours!
ohh my.. well I like to kick back and be casual sometimes too but tips for dressing up: just wear something that you feel comfortable in...that makes you feel good about being you. and it will show! Yes, he is an awesome husband. He takes my pictures for me so I have his upmost support! I'm sure there are a tonne of douchee guys out there though; I got lucky.
Hey you non-chartreuse chanteuse! Sorry the sun has deserted you. If you didn't know, it's bloody cold up there in Canada. I'll hold some sunshine for you - today anyway. I hope all is well.
first time I took a listen I just focused on the voice (after all those comparisons to Nora/ Bonnie et all) and yes you are right in there in the pack but now after 2nd listen I'm knocked out by the lyrics/ piano chops and that guitar player and his( correct me if i'm wrong) GREAT Gibson sound (probably a Les Paul) great playin all round you should be in California(not that shithole LA) but Northern California in Marin where all the coolest rock stars live LOL course you need to bring the boys too NICE WORK We're mastering our new CD tomorrow(then dupping etc) if there's any $ left over I will seriously consider kicking down for the cause a NO BRAINER investment Les
Excellent. I found it extremely beneficial, actually. Thank you. Pretty stellar shirt.
It actually hasn't been too snowy or cold here yet. Got some winter in mid October, but thats all gone. It was +17 in Edmonton yesterday, if you can believe it. Early nightfalls here though, and winter will be along soon enough.
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