Chris Anderson: Blues For Isabel (bg247), by Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson: Blues For Isabel (bg247)

by Chris Anderson

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1.	Walk-Out 01:21	buy track
2.	Kitestrings 02:51	buy track
3.	Zero Jane 02:28	buy track
4.	Sittin' Down 03:16	buy track
5.	( . ) 01:36	buy track
6.	False Gravity 03:20	buy track
7.	Dream Town 05:16	buy track
8.	Whatever 02:15	buy track
9.	Saskatchewan 03:33	buy track
10.	This Old Engine 04:47	buy track
11.	Sun Part One 01:30	buy track
12.	How Dry Is Your Well? 02:13	buy track
13.	Delilah Green 03:40	buy track
14.	Delilah Green (end) 00:20	buy track
15.	How Dry Is Your Well? 01:46	buy track
16.	Tree 02:41	buy track
17.	Cry (what do you know) 04:11	buy track
18.	Germ 02:29	buy track
19.	Not Without The Paper Dolls 01:39	buy track
20.	Calamity Jane 02:03	buy track
21.	Hypnotica 03:26	buy track
22.	Alewife 02:39	buy track
23.	Sleeveless 02:12	buy track
24.	Calico Muskrat 00:35	buy track
25.	Down3 03:13	buy track
26.	Long Stem Rose 02:05	buy track
27.	Thieves 05:41	buy track
28.	Hallanah 01:51	buy track
29.	When Push Comes To Love 02:00	buy track
30.	Million Million 04:54	buy track
31.	Standing Around 03:37	buy track
32.	Summer Flies 01:49	buy track
33.	Drifter In My Own Town 02:09	buy track
34.	The Answering Machine 03:35	buy track
35.	White-Wash 05:19	buy track
36.	The Shuffle-By 02:57	buy track
37.	Dire Wolf 03:19	buy track
38.	Blues For Isabel (part one) 01:18	buy track
39.	Some Days I Really Feel Like A Schmuck 03:09	buy track
40.	Leaf In The Sun 03:36	buy track
41.	Blues For Isabel (part two) 02:15	buy track
42.	Your Name Is Wild 01:50	buy track
43.	Mostly Jane 03:58	buy track
44.	Blues For Isabel (part three) 03:46	buy track
45.	end. 00:17	buy track

about

Being in the DC area, hurricanes don't hit us often. But when they do they really pack a wallop. Such was the case in September 2003, when Hurricane Isabel ravaged the area and left us a wasteland, at least for a while. My old neighborhood, in Belle View, was flooded to the point that the first floor of pretty much every house was ruined. Old Town Alexandria was also not spared a drop and my store, Olsson's Books & Records, featured five feet of water at one point, and so many books & records were destroyed in the mess. Trees were down everywhere and power was out, in some places, for a week or more.

It did not take long for the power to go out at home and, with nothing else to do, I fired up the old handheld cassette recorder and just started playing through songs, with only a candle to provide light. I went through a handful of classics & oldies, as well as a few covers and even some improvised songs, but mostly I stuck to songs that were recent at the time. And so there are tons from albums such as Spontanuity, What It Is, Kitestrings...andotherthings and The Last Of The Hyenas, as well as several from The Crown and Waiting For The Wolves, which were in the process of being recorded at the time.

This has long been a contender for the BG label and I don't know why it's taken until now to finally release this. Now, on the 20th anniversary of this session, I can sit and think about how every one of these songs is so dear to my heart. And I can sit and think of just how many songs have come into being in the time since (which would boggle even the most logical mind). Mostly, I can sit and think about how much my life has changed in two decades that have since passed. And, yet, I can hear this recording and be immediately transported back to that stuffy, smoky basement and the sound of debris slamming into the back of the house. Good times.

-CA, 9/19/23

credits

released September 19, 2023

Recorded in The Hole, 19 September 2003

CA: acoustic guitar & vocals

All songs written by Chris Anderson
(c) CA / Flying Dachshund Music (BMI)

except:
"The Answering Machine" written by Hogarth/Rothery/Trewavas/Kelly/Mosely
"Dire Wolf" written by Hunter/Garcia
"Your Name Is Wild" written by Robert Pollard

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Chris Anderson - BG Alexandria, Virginia

Bootleg Records is my way of organizing recordings that wouldn't be considered for release on the Flying Dachshund Music label. Songwriting demos, outtakes, live sets, band projects, pseudonym projects, and experimental sessions are what can be found on the BG label, The kind of stuff that would be bootlegged. What started out in 2005 as a limited run of 20 titles has grown to 200 and counting.... ... more

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