Lobelia and I got lucky...

Every now and again music and opportunity line up. Doesn't happen often - live albums are rarely of the best night on the tour, unless the band is recording every night. Often, the tech and the tunes are on different calendars.

However, for Lobelia and I, the planets aligned when we played a house concert in Nebraska a couple of years ago - it wasn't actually in a 'house', it was in a recording studio, doubling up as a venue.

We played the best we'd ever played and got an awesome recording of it.

It's not on bandcamp yet, sadly, but will be soon - til then, here's one of the tracks on last.fm:

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10 comments

Nov 08, 2009

said...

This is absolutely THE most beautiful thing..... :)

Nov 08, 2009

Sigurdór Guðmundsson said...

Nice!

Nov 08, 2009

Steve Lawson said...

Linda - it still amazes me. We'd played it a few times, but it was still basically an improv around a very old song of Lo's - she had no idea what I was going to do with the looped vox, or what I was going to play. I LOVE the way the harmony shifts at the end... I hadn't remembered doing that til I listened to it yesterday :)

Nov 08, 2009

Ali N. Askin said...

Beautiful track.

Nov 08, 2009

JamesCorachea said...

Very nice textures. It sounds like you had a real synergy as a performing duo and knew exactly which direction it was going - something that holds true in every great recording of a live group. Look forward to hearing the other live tracks.

Nov 08, 2009

Steve Lawson said...

thanks James! really glad you enjoyed it - you can hear the rest of the live EP on last.fm at http://www.last.fm/music/Steve+Lawson+and+Lobelia - but it'll be on bandcamp as soon as we can find a copy of the CD to rip - we sold out of them pretty quick!

Nov 08, 2009