Sorry to send this again but it didn’t look right in the last email:



http://www.roeckerfam.com/crowecast.xml



-Jacob



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From: allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com [mailto:allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Adrian
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 12:33 PM
To: allisoncrowe@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Allison Crowe] rolling into Edmonton, Alberta+



We arrived in Edmonton minutes after the Oilers ice-hockey team had
won its playoff series. Much car horn honking, chanting, and flag-
waving greeted us ( :

I need some zzzs before I can write intelligibly. 't'il then, here's
the word from The Edmonton Journal:

Songstress sets her own flight plan

Nanaimo singer-songwriter Allison Crowe prefers indie status for now

Roger Levesque, Freelance
Published: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
ALLISON CROWE ROCK 'N' RAIL REVUE

Where: Yardbird Suite

When: Thursday night at 8

Tickets: Blackbyrd Myoozik, Megatunes, at the door

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EDMONTON - Musically multifaceted, successfully independent,
surprisingly
accomplished.

All these describe Allison Crowe, but the vibrant voice is the first
thing
you notice about this Nanaimo-born singer, songwriter and pianist.

At 24, Crowe is part of that growing vanguard of young artists who
have
managed to shape a musical career on their own terms, complete with
four
albums, radio and television appearances, and hundreds of shows.
Among
other notices, she was already picked by CanWest critics as one of
Canada's up-and-coming musical stars earlier this year.

Just four years ago, Crowe was courted by a major label, flown to
New York
and shown into a studio, only to back out when she felt she was being
forced to compromise her music and direction.

"I'm big on doing things on my own creatively and artistically,"
says Crowe.

"Working or co-writing with someone can be a good thing if it's
natural
and you're having fun, but being put in a situation that's
uncomfortable
leaves you with something you don't like and I can't live with
myself.

"A lot of my heroes -- like Ani DiFranco or Loreena McKennitt --
have done
things on their own terms. Maybe one day I'll be ready to make a
compromise, but right now I see my career as a slow, gradual thing
that
just keeps building."

Crowe is making more new fans as she takes her second cross-country
solo
trip, dubbed the Rock 'n' Rail tour because she's doing it by Via
Rail.
It's also a chance to road-test new material for another studio
album,
though the singer admits she much prefers recording live.

You can catch Crowe's compelling live energy on the recent double-
disc
set, Live At Wood Hall, from her Rubanesque Records label (Festival
Distribution). It offers a mix of mostly original songs, a few show
tunes
and covers of songs by DiFranco, Tori Amos and John Lennon. It's
mostly
delivered with solo piano, her first means of musical expression,
though
the next album will also feature the singer playing guitar.

While most of her original material leans towards a first-person
point of
view and a semi-confessional angle, listeners will find a certain
maturity
and themes of spirituality that go beyond typical love-song fare,
reflecting the fact that Crowe switched from writing poetry to
writing
songs about a decade ago. She allows that she's a good observer and
that
personal experience has inspired most of her work.

Spirituality has been an ingredient in her song themes.

"A lot of time when I'm writing songs it's almost as if I'm writing
in a
journal so it jumps in there subconsciously like a therapeutic
thing. But
my songwriting doesn't always come easily. After being classically
trained
I had a natural tendency to complicate my songs. Now I'm trying to
simplify myself, and as you experience more there's kind of a natural
progression."

Crowe was exposed to a variety of music live and on record as she was
growing up in Nanaimo, including jazz, folk, musical theatre, rock
and
pop.

After starting piano lessons at five, she dabbled with drums, bass,
flute
and guitar, taking vocal lessons from 13, playing in various school
and
concert bands, drawing influence from such artists as DiFranco, Amos,
Sarah McLachlan, Pearl Jam and Counting Crows.

By 15, she knew she wanted a career in music and made her first real
public performance singing jazz on her 16th birthday.

Two years later, Crowe was in the studio working on demos that later
became her debut 2003 EP Lisa's Song + 6 Songs. Her first full-length
album, Secrets, followed in mid-2004 to serious acclaim, with
another disc
of seasonal holiday tunes, Tidings, later that year. Following the
release
of Live At Wood Hall last year, Crowe toured Europe for the first
time,
playing dates in England, Ireland, Germany and France.

She has fallen in love with a guy in Newfoundland and now calls both
coasts home -- when she's not on tour, that is.

© The Edmonton Journal 2006


And, Jacob, please resend your last message ~ I'd love to check out
your Allison podcast, iTunes song-list+, but do not have the
communications working well enough to know what is the URL... That's
the short version!

cheers, Adrian






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