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I Don't Wanna Leave New Orleans - Home Demo
August 28, 2015 18:40:08
I Don't Wanna Leave New Orleans - home demo by Carsie Blanton
SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/carsieblanton/i-dont-wanna-leave-new-orleans-home-demo/s-pmfgz
A little nugget of a song for this city I love. Photo by Lauren J. Andrews.
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I Don't Wanna Leave New Orleans - Home Demo

Greetings from New Orleans, where the city is at once mourning and celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I wasn't here for the storm, but I'm joining my neighbors in quiet reflection today. I'm sitting in the Watermelon, listening to WWNO's beautiful musical tribute to the millions affected by the storm (listen at http://wwno.org/).


This week, I've been digging through my past 3-4 years of demos, looking for "orphans and extras" that we might want to have in our back pockets as we enter the studio in January. I stumbled across a song I wrote back in 2011 and promptly forgot existed. I wrote this as I was falling hard for New Orleans, flushed with the fever of new love. This demo's a bit rough, but it's got that feverish feeling that you just can't fake.


New Orleans has a three-hundred year history of corruption, calamity, poverty, wickedness, decadence, kindness, collaboration, musical verve, loss and redemption. You can feel and smell and see it all, throughout the city, plain as day. I feel honored to live among these spirits, and humbled by the sheer overwhelming vibrance and strangeness and funk of the damn place. 


I'll be donating the proceeds from this post to Roots of Music, one of my favorite New Orleans nonprofits. Roots of Music provides free musical and cultural education to local kids from low-income households (a service that was once provided by city schools, but discontinued for a great number of kids as schools closed in the wake of the storm).

 

Roots of Music is doing a lot to keep the musical and cultural traditions of New Orleans alive and well, which makes us all richer. If you'd like to send them a few extra bucks, go to http://therootsofmusic.org/.


New Orleans, I love you. Here's to another three hundred years.


Carsie

Carsie Blanton

August 28, 2015 18:40:08

Sean J. Schluntz I love it!

August 28, 2015 20:59:48 · Reply

Amy O'Leary Wow! You must record this one! Gave me chills on my chills.

August 29, 2015 15:49:03 · Reply

The Good Life - studio demo
July 28, 2015 20:36:08
The Good Life - Studio Demo by Carsie Blanton
SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/carsieblanton/the-good-life-studio-demo/s-vYT7J
Studio demo of 'The Good Life', featuring Joe Plowman on bass and Pete Donnelly on clickety-clacks
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The Good Life - studio demo

I'm posting this now cus I want it to be the theme song for my thirties. My teens were full of heartache and drama, my twenties were good hard struggle and work. I'm ready to live the good life.


This is another studio demo, put together with the help and talent of Pete Donnelly and Joe Plowman, as a study for the upcoming album. Stay tuned for more album-related news in the coming weeks!


Love from my internet-free birthday party in the woods of northern Vermont,


Carsie

Carsie Blanton

July 28, 2015 20:36:08

Jon Colverson Godddddd, I love this song, and this new version sounds sublime!

July 28, 2015 23:20:44 · Reply

So Ferocious! Studio demo.
May 5, 2015 17:14:05
So Ferocious - studio demo! by Carsie Blanton
soundcloud.com
https://soundcloud.com/carsieblanton/so-ferocious-studio-demo/s-0oG33
A song of strength and ferocity, to scare away the haters! Featuring Pete Donnelly, Joe Plowman and Fred Berman.
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May 5, 2015 17:14:05

Scoundrel - Home Demo
June 24, 2015 16:40:41
Scoundrel - Home Demo by Carsie Blanton
SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/carsieblanton/scoundrel-home-demo
I finally realized that I have a "type". Thanks to Joe Plowman for the brilliant observation.
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Scoundrel - Home Demo

Hello friends! New friends, old friends, friends who haven't heard from me for the past 6 weeks (apologies!). I was touring like a madwoman, and now I'm back in the Watermelon and just goldang delighted to share some of the stuff I've been ruminating on.

This song is about 12 hours old - I wrote it on the loooong drive back to New Orleans from Charlotte, North Carolina (where we just completed a tour opening for The Weepies, who are excellent in every imaginable way). 


It was inspired by the kind of observation that can only come from the mouth of a friend who has spent every waking hour with you for the past six weeks (and plenty more over the past six years). Mr. Joe Plowman (longtime bassist and collaborator) provided this comment, as I simmered in the heady funk of another fresh crush on another roguish gentleman: "He's exactly your type. A scoundrel with a heart of gold. Like Han Solo."


The simple truth of this statement hit me with a smack, rattled around in my noggin, and spewed forth yesterday in a starry geyser of song. 


So here it is, an anthem for the hopeless rogue-chaser. If anybody sympathizes, god help us.


Carsie


PS. Download directly from soundcloud by clicking the down-arrow at the top right of the patreon post.

Carsie Blanton

June 24, 2015 16:40:41

Meghan Ooh yeah, Carsie. Got me in all the places with this one. LOVE IT!

June 24, 2015 16:56:26 · Reply

Carsie Blanton Sorry! ;)

June 24, 2015 17:24:07 · Reply

Fever Dream
April 6, 2015 16:51:48
Fever Dream - Home Demo by Carsie Blanton
soundcloud.com
https://soundcloud.com/carsieblanton/fever-dream-home-demo
A walk through New Orleans on the first day of summer, with background vocals from the chickens and dogs in my backyard. LYRICS: oh the day was so hot on st.
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Fever Dream

It's 82* in New Orleans, and the city has sunk beneath that haze of wet heat and magic for which it's so widely celebrated. Spring seems to have tumbled into summer already. In case you live somewhere not as hot or magical, here's an audio tour of the city, with background vocals by the chickens and dogs in my backyard. I've just edited the accompanying image to be a gorgeous painting of the French Quarter by the talented Lauren J. Andrews. View more of her work here: http://www.laurenjand.com If you DO live in New Orleans, come to my show this Wednesday with Peter Mulvey! Cafe Istanbul, 9pm. Feverishly yours, Carsie PS. Download by clicking the down-arrow in the top right corner of the Soundcloud player. Read the lyrics at https://soundcloud.com/carsieblanton/fever-dream-home-demo.

Carsie Blanton

April 6, 2015 16:51:48

Had Enough - studio demo
November 29, 2014 16:41:32
Had Enough - studio demo by Carsie Blanton
soundcloud.com
https://soundcloud.com/carsieblanton/had-enough-studio-demo
I wrote this song for the love of my life, and I was aiming for a Cole Porter rip off. Didn't come out exactly how I planned but I still dig it! Hope you like it too. And yep, those are my wedding ...
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