~ Additional Players ~
Daniel Crawford - guitar
Mitch Manker - trumpet, flugelhorn
Growlin' Mike - trombone
Rob Hecht - tenor sax, bass clarinet, violin
JP Balmat - tenor sax
Rik Ogden - clarinet
Sky Ladd - piano
Ty Kiernan - percussion
Influences
Adrienne Rich
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Beethoven
Bessie Smith
Bill Evans
Bill Monroe
Bing Crosby
Chagal
Connie Boswell
Count Basie
Dave Brubeck
Debussy
Django Reinhardt
Duke Ellington
e e cummings
Elizabeth Cotton
Ella Fitzgerald
Elvis Costello
Emily Dickenson
Federico Garcia Lorca
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Herrup
Jack Elliot
Joao Gilberto
Johnny Cash
Kate Chopin
Leadbelly
Leger
Matisse
Miles Davis
Nat King Cole
Neil Young
P.J. Harvey
Patsy Cline
Picasso
Raymond Carver
Roscoe Holcomb
Salman Rushdie
Simon & Garfunkel
Son House
Stan Getz
Stephane Grappelli
Tchaikovsky
The Beatles
The Carter Family
The Velvet Underground
Thelonious Monk
Tom Waits
Tommy Johnson
Willa Cather
Woody Guthrie
Joaniemen & Correatown present: The Low Standards, a collaboration of high & low proportions.
So here's the story:
San Diego: 2003.Mission Hills, evening.
Just as Correatown (known to most then as Angela Correa, an americana singer-songwriter in Les Shelleys with Tom Brosseau) was packing up her old guitar and heading back to her new home away from home in Los Angeles, chance and circumstance collided and the stars aligned. Serendipity sent Joaniemen (known to most then as Joanie Mendenhall a member of The Exfriends, among other musical adventures with Matt Curreri, Ray Suen and Tyler Ward) to that very place, that very night. They met. They exchanged albums and numbers. They listened. They reflected. They talked a bit. The two girls have been fast friends and musical cohorts ever since.
Los Angeles: 2006. Echo Park, morning.
After years of playing on each others tunes, singing together in various incarnations, talking trash, and scheming up mayhem these two gals Joaniemen and Correatown found that they really did need to formalize their partnership. Since they both quite cherished old jazz standards, show tunes, a witty lyric and the solid snap of a finger they decided to haunt the dirty nightclubs of the eastside in search of inspiration. In a fit and flurry of audacity they endeavored to create a few new musical low standards of their own.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Gamblers & Stalwarts -
we present to you THE LOW STANDARDS. a collaboration by Joaniemen & Correatown.
a lovely recording coming to you soon in stereo deluxe.
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Hi Low Standards! Thanks so much for your friendship & support! I just wanted to let you know that my new e.p. “Paper Box” is available now on itunes. Drop me a line and let me know how you’re doing! Visit http://www. tunecore. com/music/gayleskidmore for a link to my itunes site. Cheers! Gayle Skidmore
I'm Michele Millet, singer songwriter of Not tonight Josephine. I've just started my new space where I play on my own... Listen to my new songs : www.myspace.com/michelemillet
