Even though I am not getting paid I was able to do some shopping last week at Borders. I bought THE BELIEVER 2009 music issue. Inside were some great treats, a new cd, a great article by Michelle Tea on Beth Ditto and Gossip. On the cd was a new tune by Lancaster's own Beth Sorrentino. I used to live in the same apartment building with her brother Jay. We spent 9/11 together worried about Beth living in NYC close to the Towers. Jay and I have lost touch since. Here is the wiki entry for Beth. Please do yourself a favor and get this issue of the BELIEVER. Great reading and great listening!!
Beth Sorrentino (born Elizabeth Sorrentino) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
In the early 1990s, Sorrentino, bassist Ken Heitmueller, and Beth's brother, drummer Jay Sorrentino, formed the music trio Suddenly, Tammy!. The band got signed to spinART Records, which released several EPs (Spokesmodel, El Presidente) and a self-titled debut album. The band subsequently signed a contract with Warner Bros. Records, for whom they recorded and released the album We Get There When We Do. A follow-up album, Comet, was recorded and reportedly completed, but the band was dropped from the label before it could be released. Warners shelved the project, and it has never been made commercially available. The group disbanded shortly thereafter.
Following the band's split in 1997, Beth moved to New York City and became a music teacher.
Sorrentino recorded a series of demos between 2002-2003, produced by Irwin Chusid and engineered by Peter Katis at Tarquin Studios, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The material mostly consisted of new original compositions, with cover versions of two Leonard Cohen songs. After sporadic returns to public performance in New York clubs, Sorrentino approved the demos for digital release in 2006 under the title Nine Songs, One Story. In 2008, two live solo sessions performed and recorded in 2001 at radio station WFMU were released digitally. These sets included a number of Suddenly, Tammy! songs, as well as new original material
In the early 1990s, Sorrentino, bassist Ken Heitmueller, and Beth's brother, drummer Jay Sorrentino, formed the music trio Suddenly, Tammy!. The band got signed to spinART Records, which released several EPs (Spokesmodel, El Presidente) and a self-titled debut album. The band subsequently signed a contract with Warner Bros. Records, for whom they recorded and released the album We Get There When We Do. A follow-up album, Comet, was recorded and reportedly completed, but the band was dropped from the label before it could be released. Warners shelved the project, and it has never been made commercially available. The group disbanded shortly thereafter.
Following the band's split in 1997, Beth moved to New York City and became a music teacher.
Sorrentino recorded a series of demos between 2002-2003, produced by Irwin Chusid and engineered by Peter Katis at Tarquin Studios, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The material mostly consisted of new original compositions, with cover versions of two Leonard Cohen songs. After sporadic returns to public performance in New York clubs, Sorrentino approved the demos for digital release in 2006 under the title Nine Songs, One Story. In 2008, two live solo sessions performed and recorded in 2001 at radio station WFMU were released digitally. These sets included a number of Suddenly, Tammy! songs, as well as new original material
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and when do i get to see it? havn't seen it on my side yet...
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