Name: Rachel Drew on Diane Soubly's Sunday Dinner with Di on WMXM by Rachel Drew
Duration: 1 h 8 min 12 s
Description: I was happy to visit, chat, and spin some tunes of local friends this Easter with Diane Soubly on her show Sunday Dinner with Di. If we didn't play you, I am sorry -- we probably wanted to play you but we didn't have a connection to the internet and had to have physical copies of vinyl or CDs.

Mixtape Show October 3, 2023 with local artists, train songs, jazz, William Burroughs, random folk, blues, soul. Also with Carter Cleland adding color commentary.

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Mixtape Show November 7, 2023 partial with local artists, more murder ballads, jazzish.  First 45 minutes would not get recorder to work.

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I was happy to visit, chat, and spin some tunes of local friends this Easter with Diane Soubly on her show Sunday Dinner with Di. If we didn't play you, I am sorry -- we probably wanted to play you but we didn't have a connection to the internet and had to have physical copies of vinyl or CDs.

Rachel Drew on Diane Soubly's Sunday Dinner with Di on WMXM

So my dog died this weekend, and he was the goodest boy. 

When I had to write a song, it was impossible to write about anything else, because there's just very little room in my head or heart for anything else, but no one wants to hear (or write) a song about a dead dog. 

Our assignment, though, was to break habits and approach the song in a way we usually don't. So I went to the piano, which I haven't played in 30 years, hence the minimal, error-filled accompaniment.

The task was fortuitous. I had to engage so much of my brain to make the piano and my hands and my foot and my thumbs (guitar takes your thumbs from you) do what I needed them to do. And that, I hope, kept the song from getting horribly maudlin. 

The audio is really quiet. I suck at doing recordings, and the piano complicated things even further, but here it is.

Christine Malcom's Album

Anything

From the 2019 album, Keeper of the Light, with Steve Dawson on electric guitar, bass and drums, Alton Smith on keyboards.  Recorded by Steve and by Rob Arendt.  Songwriters are supposed to write what they know.  I truly thought I was finished writing songs.

Finished

Dedicated to my mom and those we lost to cancer too soon.

Writing Her Own Song.M1

Hello World

I played my favorite Neil Young song at SPACE on 1/23/11 - recorded by Jim Reeves.

ingrid graudins - "borrowed tune" by Neil Young at SPACE 1/23/2011

Rachel Drew grew up in a musical household singing 3-part harmony with her parents, getting lost in songs on the family piano, and dancing wildly to dusty classical records. She's now a prolific songwriter and a fixture in Chicago’s music scene as both front person and harmony singer. Her full-length second album “Old Sky New” is set to release March 2024, eight years after her first album, "Under the Sun,” 2016. "Summer's Over" is the first single off the new album. 

See www.racheldrew.com for more.

Rachel Drew on Diane Soubly's Sunday Dinner with Di on WMXM

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