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Post by Marshall on Jul 20, 2014 22:21:57 GMT -5
"BOOM !"And it was just a wonderful friend I've met. With her band in a restaurant/bar. Probably 25 people in the audience. . . . , there should have been 200. Of course the venue only holds 50 or so max. . . . , But I digress. Christina Tullio is her name. She has a spectacular voice. So warm and so inviting. And her melodies wrap around you like a soft warm blanket. And the lyrics are immediately unique and familiar at the same time. I'm just slayed that she's even human and I can talk to her and she knows who I am, for crying out loud. I got a couple videos of the performance. I'll process them and stick on youtube in the next day or so, so you guys can be jealous you don't know her. Oh. and her ensemble tonight includes a great local mando player, bass, percussionist, all-around cool guy Victor Sanders on electric guitar, AND her hubby, Bob, who sings harmony and plays fiddle. . . , it's hard to call it fiddle, because he teaches it on the faculty in the music department of Northwestern University, (and sides as conductor of the Racine orchestra). . . , duh I got 2 of her songs that will be on youtube. Maybe 3. But every one in the 45 minute set was absolutley stellar Probably my favorite song (I didn't get recorded ) is one that she should change the title. I know it by the refrain ( It's the Northern lights), not it's title phrase (that's why I missed it). I've heard her do it in a song circle at a party and I thought it was a cover. It is so perfect, I figured it must have been a Lyle Lovett song in a different key. But, no, it's all hers. OK. I gotta go process some video. You'll love her.
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Post by Cornflake on Jul 20, 2014 22:24:50 GMT -5
Looking forward to it!
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Post by dradtke on Jul 20, 2014 22:32:07 GMT -5
Cool!
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Post by Marshall on Jul 20, 2014 23:08:40 GMT -5
Thanks for humoring me dudes. But she's worth it.
I've got the first video being clipped right now. It takes my freebie software a while to clip out the unwanted banter in front and behind a song. But I listened to it and its pretty good. The iphone get's a little fooled video-wise by the bright light on the main performer on stage and averages the exposure, so your subject gets kinda washed out if they are not big enough in the screen view to command enough averaging pixels. Whereas everything else (except your main subject) is exposed pretty nicely. But if you're close enough, the iphone does better on exposure.
The tascam iM2 mic does very nice to get decent audio.
It's a pretty nice (simple) youtube rig.
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Post by Marshall on Jul 21, 2014 0:07:06 GMT -5
Here's the first video. It's a real Poppy tune. Probably her lightest tune. But quite a fun listen.
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Post by Marshall on Jul 21, 2014 0:29:54 GMT -5
OK. Here's the second one. This is very melancholy; "The Road to Tennessee." And I realized hubby, Bob, is playing "I'm going to Alabama with my banjo on my knee" as the instrumental over the top. He alluded in the intro that the instrumental is from another state. "See if you can figure it out." www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=0jdJ2h8oH-c
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Post by PaulKay on Jul 21, 2014 9:19:08 GMT -5
"BOOM !"And it was just a wonderful friend I've met. With her band in a restaurant/bar. Probably 25 people in the audience. . . . , there should have been 200. Of course the venue only holds 50 or so max. . . . , But I digress. Christina Tullio is her name. She has a spectacular voice. So warm and so inviting. And her melodies wrap around you like a soft warm blanket. And the lyrics are immediately unique and familiar at the same time. I'm just slayed that she's even human and I can talk to her and she knows who I am, for crying out loud. I got a couple videos of the performance. I'll process them and stick on youtube in the next day or so, so you guys can be jealous you don't know her. Oh. and her ensemble tonight includes a great local mando player, bass, percussionist, all-around cool guy Victor Sanders on electric guitar, AND her hubby, Bob, who sings harmony and plays fiddle. . . , it's hard to call it fiddle, because he teaches it on the faculty in the music department of Northwestern University, (and sides as conductor of the Racine orchestra). . . , duh I got 2 of her songs that will be on youtube. Maybe 3. But every one in the 45 minute set was absolutley stellar Probably my favorite song (I didn't get recorded ) is one that she should change the title. I know it by the refrain ( It's the Northern lights), not it's title phrase (that's why I missed it). I've heard her do it in a song circle at a party and I thought it was a cover. It is so perfect, I figured it must have been a Lyle Lovett song in a different key. But, no, it's all hers. OK. I gotta go process some video. You'll love her. ?? Racine has an orchestra?
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Post by Marshall on Jul 21, 2014 9:37:13 GMT -5
I may have the town wrong. Kenosha? Somewhere up dere.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 21, 2014 10:03:59 GMT -5
Impressive -- her voice reminds me of Cheryl Wheeler's, if anyone remembers her.
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Post by millring on Jul 21, 2014 10:20:06 GMT -5
Impressive -- her voice reminds me of Cheryl Wheeler's, if anyone remembers her. Funny, but when I read "Cheryl Wheeler" my mental ears always hear an Irish brogue because I have a recording of "Summerfly" as done by Maura O'Connell, and she introduces the song as written by Cheryl Wheeler. So, for more than twenty years now, I hear "Cheryl Wheeler" as said by Maura O'Connell.
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Post by Marshall on Jul 21, 2014 10:48:21 GMT -5
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Post by Tamarack on Jul 21, 2014 11:58:45 GMT -5
Some fine music. Christina indeed has a remarkable warmth, depth, and breadth to her voice.
Bob has an interesting life -- he gets to be both a violinist and a fiddler, and a conductor as well (must be a powerful experience to exert one's will upon an orchestra).
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Post by Marshall on Jul 21, 2014 12:09:20 GMT -5
He's a very cool guy. We talked for a good while at a music party on the 4th. He's a cool guy. They both are special.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jul 21, 2014 17:10:43 GMT -5
Marshall, I like that, bunches.
Thanks
Mike
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Post by RickW on Jul 21, 2014 19:54:31 GMT -5
Not bad for recording on a phone. She sounds great, great songs. We're stuck on singer songwriters. A great guitar player will get me, but someone who can write and play great songs in an acoustic setting will make me melt.
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Post by xyrn on Jul 22, 2014 9:17:38 GMT -5
Nice! Her voice remind me some of Tish Hinojosa. Tish Hinojosa - "In the Real West," 1990: youtu.be/V-8_NCQr-20
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Post by Marshall on Jul 22, 2014 9:45:33 GMT -5
Not bad for recording on a phone. She sounds great, great songs. We're stuck on singer songwriters. A great guitar player will get me, but someone who can write and play great songs in an acoustic setting will make me melt. The Tascam iM2 was made for iPhone 4. So you have to get an adapter for the iPhone 5. But it works nicely.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 22, 2014 10:25:03 GMT -5
Nice! Her voice remind me some of Tish Hinojosa. Tish Hinojosa - "In the Real West," 1990: youtu.be/V-8_NCQr-20In the early '90s I was in a trio with two fine female vocalists (one of whom tragically died recently of early-onset Alzheimer's) and we did this moving Tish song:
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