I got booked for a gig in Connecticut where each of the performers was asked to write a song about being snowed in. This was my entry. I was in the middle of reading a Bill Bryson book about the evolution of the English language in the US. Lots of new words about weather were being formed or coined (snowstorm and blizzard), or else were being stolen outright from other languages (Bryson tells the story of Washington purloining the word "ravine" from the French, with whom he was fighting in the French and Indian war).
from
Highliner,
track released July 15, 2013
Featuring:
Jason Harrod: vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
Joshua Stamper: double bass, electric bass
Patrick Berkery: drums, percussion
Brian Christinzio: piano
Jim Callan: pedal steel
Kenny Hutson: pedal steel
Colin McGrath: vocals, guitar
Reid Maclean: vocals
Michelle Bishop: violin
Erica Miller : violin
Shelley Weiss: viola
Naomi Gray: cello
Jon Rees: piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet
Paul Arbogast: tenor and bass trombone
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Orchestral arrangements written and conducted by Joshua Stamper
Mastered by Grey Larsen at Grey Larsen Mastering, Bloomington, Indiana
Vinyl Mastering by Prairie Cat
Photography by Erica Pelaccia
Illustration and Graphic design by Vesper Stamper
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produced by Brian McTear, engineered and mixed by Jonathan Low