This week, in your ever expanding musi-verse, ½DC + TWoTH had the absolute pleasure of welcoming Seattleite singer/songwriter Shenandoah Davis into the TWR studio to chat & also to record a mammoth session over at Offshore Music, Cardiff.
Shenandoah was at the tail end of her European vacation/tour combi, having spent a wonderful weekend up at Toad Towers in Edinburgh (recording a session & podcast interview for the intrepid Mr. Toad), when she got off a train at Cardiff Central with the largest keyboard holdall you have ever seen in your life.
Somehow she survived a trip to Mr. Fisk’s place for a poetry magazine launch & number of hours imbing whiskey & coke in the company of Lloyd Robson, before collapsing onto the sleeping cot & relaxing (read: sleeping) for the first time since she stepped onto Platform 2 over 7 hours previous.
The session is quite wonderful. Effortless, yet complex, mastery of her instrument of choice. That supernatural soar in her wobbling, yet full of grandeur, classically trained vocals. 14 songs she knocked off, just like that. Not including 5 abandoned attempts at one particularly tricksy skittering piano piece.
The interview, such as it is, interwoven with songs Shenandoah assisted in choosing for this week’s playlist, is a joy. As much as it would appear cliché, & it most certainly is not, Shenandoah is witty, laid back, self-deprecating, immensely talented & everything you could wish for in an interviewee-cum-house guest-cum-good egg.
Musically you can expect nothing short of Grade A variety & excellence along the very lines of:
- Big D & The Kids Table – Doped Up Dollies On A One Way Ticket To Blood
- Quintron & Miss Pussycat – Fly Like A Rat
- Swimming In Speakers – Uh Oh
- Bell X1 – One Stringed Harp
- Left Lane Cruiser – Ol’ Fashioned
- Domingo – The Naked Bunch
- Adam and Darcie – National Forest
- Dear Reader – Dearheart
- Barnaby Bright – The Stone
Shenandoah Davis — TWR Session 17.08.09
- Up & Over (TWR Session 17.08.09)
- Pellet Gun (TWR Session 17.08.09)
- We; Camera (TWR Session 17.08.09)
- Proof (TWR Session 17.08.09)
- These Rocks (TWR Session 17.08.09)
- Your Fonder Heart (Anais Mitchell cover) (TWR Session 17.08.09)
- The Films – Me + The Thief
- Eight Legs – Just So You Know
- Peggy Sue & The Pictures – The Sea The Sea
- The Hungry March Band – Bubamara
- The Cave Singers – Summer Light
- Jenn Grant – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young cover)
- Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers – Nightowl
- The Features – Whatever Gets You By
- Roses Kings Castles – Entroubled
- Clock Hands Strangle – Distaccati
- Forgetful Florence – Mindless Gibberish
- Shenandoah Davis – Milagros
So, lean in, then, at the usual time, the usual place, & catch Shenandoah talking cameltoes, false accusations of checking assault rifles onto planes, cleaning the guttering with her toothbrush, & teaching a course on drinking British-style in her native Seattle.
x ½DC + TWoTH
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Ah, that was gorgeous. The interview bit was particularly good, even though you talked her ears off, DC! But very interesting questions with interesting answers were had, and ones that I often think of myself such as how people choose to sing the way they do and how do words come to songs? What a generous performer she is, very impressive!
And song choice this week: Swimming in Speakers, Dear Reader, Barnaby Bright, Peggy Sue, Adam and Darcie, and Jen Grant were stand outs for me — all really good. I’m so glad you added that “Milagros” song at the end, her voice is really wonderful on that, what a treasure, xoxo