The Arrival of Long Night Moon
A coincidence? Doubtful! The official release of Long Night Moon? is August 29.remember what happened only a year ago on that date. As a stark and poignant reminder and leading the way out of the new CD at Track 6 is the International Songwriting Competition Grand Prize Award Winner People Look Around, co-written with Mark Erelli. Having recently returned from a film shoot New Orleans, Catie is busy making a video of the same song, a video sure to be powerful.
I’ve had the pleasure of hearing most of the songs in shows as she introduced and polished them in front of live audiences, but I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to those as well as newer ones on the CD they sound great! With this album, Catie once again shares with us her strengths as a songwriter and storyteller in the honored tradition of folk music. I like the general vibe of the album that gives us a little less pop and a little more folk sound. Produced by Lorne Entress, who is also one of the members of her fabulous band, she has some of her other friends join in both instrumentally and vocally, such as Mary Chapin Carpenter singing with her in the sad, yet beautiful Water and Stone, Kris Delmhorst playing cello on Innocent, Erin McKeown in vocals on Hey California, and her latest award winning collaborator Mark Erelli playing guitar and singing all over the CD.
As an old camp director myself, I recognize a good camp song when I hear one and Catie’s got a couple on here. The first is the optimistic and hopeful Passing Through, co-written by Mark Erelli, and her real life camp inspired song Hard Time With Goodbyes. Someone bring the tissues to the closing campfire for me, would ya? I can also recognize a hot love song along with a good ribbing when I hear one, and as a California native, Hey California I hear a good dose of both!
The CD cover art is a beautiful blue based piece called An Unfinished Life by Jeanette Staley. And speaking of CD covers, just be ready to find the lyrics here or over on her own site because they aren’t with the CD. A new technology, paper saving and tree saving move but call me old fashioned, I kind of like the pleasure of sitting and reading the lyrics, credits and enjoying the artwork as I listen to the CD on my stereo for the first time and my stereo is not my computer!
Be it on your computer, on your iPod, or with a surround sound stereo system…make sure you take time to listen to the wonderful new addition to Catie’s continuing gift to us…her heart and her music.