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Our new single!

So…I had a rough draft of this song sitting around for months. It just needed a little mixing. Between a work project that ate my brain and…I dunno, the authoritarian takeover of our country, I put things musical on a back burner.

The work project is done. The authoritarian takeover, not so much. But creating in the face of that is one of the few coping mechanisms I have. It’s an act of defiance, maybe? Even when the song isn’t overtly political (unlike “Los Angeles (is burning).” This one’s more…existential, I guess? I don’t know. You tell me.

Musicians are the usual awesome suspects:

Tony Mandracchia, on everything with strings that isn’t the bass, which on this track include dobro and charango, a very cool instrument that traditionally uses an armadillo shell for the back!

Todd Tatum, Mr. Rock Steady, on drums!

And returning to the recording sphere, Dana Fredsti on castanets!

(vocals and bass by me, Lisa)

A few old Pickups tunes just released to your various streamers…

One of the ways I’ve been trying to maintain my sanity is by doing creative stuff. Mostly music. It’s meant a lot to me to be able to recapture what was a huge and really important piece of my life, playing with The Pickups.

Part of what I’ve been doing is recording new songs. Another part is finding our old recordings and uploading them. This is a little easier than recording new songs, as they were recorded in studios by people who knew what they were doing (unlike me!).

These are three songs we recorded in the mid/late 90s. The second song, “Always Going Somewhere,” is one of my favorite songs I ever wrote. If my new book (currently out on sub) ever sees the light of day, it could serve as the main character’s theme song.

Thanks, Tony Mandracchia, Todd Tatum and Dana Fredsti for being part of something that is so meaningful to me.

If you want to take a listen, here’s the link