the night time is the right time

ok so i know this is tardy and this song is definitely not about a teeny tiny dog, but here is a brand new one that has come together in the last few weeks. i wrote this in the middle of the night in a fit of pure inspiration which meant another sleepless night. sigh. on the bright side, i’ve never claimed to be a morning person anyway… so i would say i was no more grumpy in the following AM hours than usual.

this was recorded in a shell beach living room with justin and mike. par for the course indeed.

unraveled by reesegalido

hope you’re enjoying the winter darkness, the night owl in me rejoices in short days so keep an eye out for yours truly lurking in a coffee shop near you. oh if you’d like to hear this tune live, i’ll be at the kruezberg on Tuesday 12/13 at 6:30 with the lovely folks of songwriters at play. i’ll be the lady drinking both a hot beverage and a cold beverage at the same time.

you’re my only hope

okay so maybe i’m suffering from a teeny bout of songwriter’s block. even my insomnia hasn’t come up with anything creative (or even just plain weird) that i can use as a starting point so i’m going to have to ask you all for a bit of assistance.

cast a vote and i’ll give it a shot. whatever song i come up with using the prescribed method will be posted here. i’m at your mercy!

NO VOTING MULTIPLE TIMES!!!
(poll closes on sunday 10/2)

update: sigh. looks like i’m writing a song about a teeny tiny dog.

ringing in the new at the kreuzberg

photo courtesy of becky sloat

i’d be remiss if i didn’t tell you all about what an awesome time we had at the kreuzberg | ca opening party last weekend. there was much fun having and carrying on by all including a raucous and riveting performance by the incomparable Delilah followed by Cottrell Freeman and company blowing my mind by performing some of my favorite tunes. what killer mix of music, food, and people – the new digs are ridiculously rad mobile and i can’t wait to come back and play again in september. love you guys!

also… i may or may not have planked the buffet, but that is neither here nor there… i don’t really want to talk about it.

photo courtesy of becky sloat

you know what to do

with the help of friends, i’ve finally found a way to combine my inner nerd with my music geek (who has a healthy dose of exhibitionism). we’ve been guerilla gigging our way through the shops and streets of san luis obispo. here’s one that we recorded in the garden at linnaea’s cafe with the vines and the koi fish as witnesses.

call it a warm up for our show at linnaea’s on august 27 or call it an excuse to do silly things in public places with instruments. either way, you’re right.

alter ego

here’s a not-so-secret secret:

performing with the kicks? no problem. i don’t care if there are two or two thousand people there – i can roll out on stage without a care in the world, let the music take me, and simply enjoy sharing music with people kind enough to listen (and dance. i heart the people who dance).

performing as reese galido? scares the living daylights out of me – and although i’ve never really understood what exactly “living daylights” are, i’m pretty sure you’re supposed to keep those. without them, i am jumpy and i’ll talk too loud. i will fidget until mikeC tells me to cut it out because it’s making him nervous. i’ll over caffeinate which definitely doesn’t help and will hide outside the venue until it’s time to play. oh and while i’m setting up, i’ll pretend that i’m just helping with the setup and not actually performing.

what does this all mean? i think it means that i’m out of my mind.

and if you’d like to witness all this and more, i’m playing the kreuzberg coffee lounge in SLO on august 6th for their grand opening.

please help me to remember to use my inside voice.

parry

this may seem paradoxical to you, but i am at times a really intensely private person. after a series of shows more often than not i will drop off the radar for a while and wander somewhere new, retreat and write or enjoy some awesomely terrible b-movies… consecutively. as it is, i always find myself fumbling on the microphone when i introduce songs because the reasons why a song came to my life get stuck in my brain (somewhere on the right side i think) and refuse to exit via an amplified sound system.

my solution? without skipping a beat, i will tell you where and when i wrote a song. i can recall where each melody was dreamed up, what kind of night it was, if i was standing or sitting, and which guitar that the song materialized out of. I will also tell you with a smile, that the song was written for no one.

but if you have a moment to spare and a pot of coffee, i’ll gladly spin my tales for you and maybe, between one steaming cup and the next, that “no one” will gain a name.

summertime and the living is medium

oh summer, you make me want to spend my days in hammocks listening to etta james and drink beverages with festive umbrellas in them. but alas, all play and no work makes for an unfinished album so rest assured that the reese is getting all her ducks and other various water fowl in a row so she can hit her yet undisclosed release date (don’t worry, it’s sometime in 2011).

we’ve got some all stars coming into track drums and guitar this month, and if you were at some of our shows years and years ago, don’t be surprised to see some familiar faces in the studio tracking away behind all the glass and soundproofing at avalon studios with yours truly. we’ve graduated from livingroom jams and makeshift mic stands crafted with mikeC’s maguyver skills and will hopefully hit a stage near you sometime.

that being said, we’ll happily play your livingroom if you’ll feed us.

now if i only knew what to name the album then we’d be in business…

(still) on the road

one of my favorite things to do on the road (besides trying to get Chinese food places to deliver to the RV) is finding gems of guitar shops all along the way. nothing is more inspiring than getting to play a beautiful instrument. you can’t help but think of all the songs laying dormant inside and wonder what it would take to coax them into being.

or, if it’s a long day, you marvel at pictures of elvis with a speaker cone on his man parts.

the choice is yours.

the remedy

so i’ve spoken to a few friends and they have all let me know (1) that they never know when i’m actually playing in their neighborhood and (2) no, they do not have a facebook profile so it doesn’t count when i send out updates on there.

to that end, i offer up a solution. if you sign up for my mailing list i will not only let you know when i’m going to be in town, i’ll even give you a brand new track off the forthcoming album in return.

deal? deal.

studio life

i’m excited to say that i’ve spent the last 3 nights back in the studio. we’ve cranked out the basic tracks for ten songs with a few more in the works… including some surprising instrumentation choices.

trust me, you will dig it.