Written by Yvette Kay © 1991

previously unreleased bonus track from The Yvette Kay CD release 1995: "New Voice New Eyes"

produced by Bill Cutler

lead vocal: Yvette Kay 
acoustic guitar: Yvette Kay 
electric 12-string guitar & mandolin: Jeffrey Trott 
bass, keys & tambourine: Chris Solberg
drums: Paul Revelli 
background vocals: Chris Solberg, Lynn Ray & Jane Woodman

recorded at various studios in San Francisco, CA 
mixed by Gary Mankin at Hyde Street Studio - San Francisco, CA 
mastered by Michael Romanowski at Rocket Lab S.F.

graphic art by Suzanne Rush

Love's Crusade

© 2001 Yvette Kay

Music by Yvette Kay
English lyrics by Florence Raynaud

vocals: Yvette Kay
background vocals and lead vocal on the bridge: Florence Raynaud
drum programming: Benny Sanches
synths: Yvette Kay

Demo recorded by Yvette Kay at Chez Baboo Productions - San Francisco, CA
Music by Yvette Kay © 2001
Lyrics by Florence Raynaud

Tattoo

Song by Yvette Kay © 1989

Bonus tracks from the 1995 "New Voice New Eyes" CD

Guitar and vocals by Yvette Kay
Harmony vocals by KD Davis
Tambourine by Jimmy Woody

Recorded by Dan Wool in 8 tracks in San Francisco

If U Touch My Soul

Song by Yvette Kay © 1988

Bonus tracks from the 1995 "New Voice New Eyes" CD

Guitar, vocals and melodica by Yvette Kay
Harmony vocal by KD Davis

Recorded by Dan Wool in 8 tracks in San Francisco

Tell Me Lies

Songs written by Yvette Kay and KD Davis © 1986 
Demo produced by Bill Cutler and recorded/engineered by Gary Mankin in 1986. 

Lead vocal and bass: KD Davis
Guitar and background vocals: Yvette Kay
Percussion: Debbie Hopkins
Drums: Kat Zumbach

Drum programming by Christopher Bock

Everybody Plays Your Game

Songs written by Yvette Kay and KD Davis © 1986 
Demo produced by Bill Cutler and recorded/engineered by Gary Mankin in 1986. 

Lead vocal and guitar: Yvette Kay
Bass and background vocals: Yvette Kay
Keyboards: Debbie Hopkins
Drums: Kat Zumbach

Drum programming by Christopher Bock

Big Thread

The Good Thing

Songs written by Yvette Kay and KD Davis © 1986 
Demo produced by Bill Cutler and recorded/engineered by Gary Mankin in 1986. 

Lead vocal and bass: KD Davis
Guitar and background vocals: Yvette Kay
Keyboards: Debbie Hopkins
Drums: Kat Zumbach

Drum programming by Christopher Bock

Love Is A Doorway

Songs written by Yvette Kay and KD Davis © 1986 
Demo produced by Bill Cutler and recorded/engineered by Gary Mankin in 1986. 

Lead vocal and guitar: Yvette Kay
Bass and background vocals: KD Davis
Keyboards: Debbie Hopkins
Drums: Kat Zumbach

Drum programming by Christopher Bock

Now I

Rock song for kids. © 2004 Yvette Kay
OK maybe this song doesn't fit in, but I couldn't resist adding it to soundcloud for the moment.
History: I set up 3 mics and recorded four young boys, two of whom were my nephews. Because all kids have a fantasy of being a rock star they were being total hams. They were making stuff up on the fly over a drum machine track and I recorded it into Pro Tools. If left alone the "vocals" were a horrible mess, but there was a hook "No Free Tacos!" Who knows where they came up with that?
In Pro Tools I edited the hell out of the "vocals" and kinda made a collage out of what they had "sung". Then I quickly wrote and recorded a song around it all. It was amazing how it sounded like they had sung to the music, but there was NO music, just drum machine.
I made four of these songs in the same manner. I have included a picture my sister took of these four young extraverts on the day of the recording. They even posed like a boy-band. So effing cute.
Recorded at Chez Baboo Productions - San Francisco, CA

Big Mama (Shut Up)

Yeah, He Was Lucky

We Like Girls

From the 1985 self-titled LP release of "Wilma". Song written by Wilma, May 1981. © 1985 Wilma

vocals: Trina James
guitar: Yvette Kay 
bass: K.D. Davis 
keyboards: Louise Diedrich
drums: Kris Panebianco

recorded and mixed by Thomas K. Mallon at Tom Mallon Studios, San Francisco 1981.

album art by Louise Diedrich

Vortex

From the 1985 self-titled LP release of "Wilma". Song written by Wilma, 1981. © 1985 Wilma
guitar &amp; backup vocals: Yvette Kay
bass &amp; backup vocals: K.D. Davis
lead vocals, keyboards &amp; drum machine: Louise Diedrich
recorded and mixed by Thomas K. Mallon at Tom Mallon Studios, San Francisco 1981.
album art by Louise Diedrich


Love Vaccine

From the 1985 self-titled LP release of "Wilma". Song written by Wilma, May 1981. © 1985 Wilma

lead vocals, bass: K.D. Davis 
guitar: Yvette Kay 
keyboards, violin & drum machine: Louise Diedrich

recorded and mixed by Thomas K. Mallon at Tom Mallon Studios, San Francisco 1981.

album art by Louise Diedrich


Pornography Lies

From the 1985 self-titled LP release of "Wilma". Song written by Wilma, May 1981. Based on the song "Georgy Girl"- music by Tom Springfield, lyrics by Jim Dale ©1966

guitar & bass: Yvette Kay 
keyboard: K.D. Davis 
lead vocals: Louise Diedrich
drums: Kris Panebianco

recorded and mixed by Thomas K. Mallon at Tom Mallon Studios, San Francisco 1981.

album art by Louise Diedrich

Georgie Girl

From the 1985 self-titled LP release of "Wilma". Song written by Yvette Kay, May 1980. © 1985 Yvette Kay.

guitar and lead vocal: Yvette Kay
bass and harmony vocal: K.D. Davis
keyboards and drum machine: Louise Diedrich

recorded and mixed by Thomas K. Mallon at Tom Mallon Studios, San Francisco 1981.

album art by Louise Diedrich


Life Without Adjectives

Written by Yvette Kay © 1991

previously unreleased bonus track from The Yvette Kay CD release 1995: "New Voice New Eyes"

produced by Bill Cutler

lead vocal: Yvette Kay 
acoustic guitar: Yvette Kay 
electric guitar: Jeffrey Trott
bass: Chris Solberg
drums: Paul Revelli
background vocals: Chris Solberg, Lynn Ray, Laura Zanata & Boni Boyer

recorded at various studios in San Francisco, CA 
mixed by Gary Mankin at Hyde Street Studio - San Francisco, CA 
mastered by Michael Romanowski at Rocket Lab S.F.

graphic art by Suzanne Rush

Inside The Shadows

Written by Yvette Kay © 1991

previously unreleased bonus track from The Yvette Kay CD release 1995: "New Voice New Eyes"

produced by Bill Cutler

lead vocal: Yvette Kay 
acoustic guitar: Yvette Kay 
electric guitar: Jeffrey Trott 
bass: Chris Solberg 
drums: Paul Revelli 
Hammond B3 organ: Chris Solberg
tambourine: Chris Solberg 
background vocals: Chris Solberg, Lynn Ray, Laura Zanata & Boni Boyer

recorded at various studios in San Francisco, CA 
mixed by Gary Mankin at Hyde Street Studio - San Francisco, CA 
mastered by Michael Romanowski at Rocket Lab S.F.

graphic art by Suzanne Rush

I Am A Woman

Written by Yvette Kay © 1991

previously unreleased bonus track from The Yvette Kay CD release 1995: "New Voice New Eyes"

produced by Bill Cutler

lead vocal: Yvette Kay 
acoustic guitar: Yvette Kay 
electric guitar: Jeffrey Trott 
bass: Chris Solberg 
drums: Paul Revelli 
piano: Dave Kafinetti
Hammond B3: Chris Solberg
electric rhythm guitar: Bill Cutler
background vocals: Bill Cutler and Jane Woodman

recorded at various studios in San Francisco, CA 
mixed by Gary Mankin at Hyde Street Studio - San Francisco, CA 
mastered by Michael Romanowski at Rocket Lab S.F.

graphic art by Suzanne Rush

Starving

Rock song for kids. © 2004 Yvette Kay

OK maybe this song doesn't fit in, but I couldn't resist adding it to soundcloud for the moment.

History: I set up 3 mics and recorded four young boys, two of whom were my nephews. Because all kids have a fantasy of being a rock star they were being total hams. They were making stuff up on the fly over a drum machine track and I recorded it into Pro Tools. If left alone the "vocals" were a horrible mess, but there was a hook "No Free Tacos!" Who knows where they came up with that?

In Pro Tools I edited the hell out of the "vocals" and kinda made a collage out of what they had "sung". Then I quickly wrote and recorded a song around it all. It was amazing how it sounded like they had sung to the music, but there was NO music, just drum machine.

I made four of these songs in the same manner. I have included a picture my sister took of these four young extraverts on the day of the recording. They even posed like a boy-band. So effing cute.

Recorded at Chez Baboo Productions - San Francisco, CA

No Free Tacos

Wilma © 1981

music written by Louise Diedrich, Yvette Kay & K.D. Davis; lyrics written by Louise Diedrich

lead vocal, synth and drum machine: Louise Diedrich
electric guitar, melodica & background vocals: Yvette Kay
bass & background vocals: K.D. Davis

This was from a very rough demo recorded at Iguana Studios, San Francisco 1981. 

What Do You Do When Your Body Just Won't Behave

Yvette Kay, originally from Berkeley, CA, fell in love with the guitar at age 10 and songwriting as a teenager. Much of the 70s were spent learning how to play songs by the Beatles and Neil Young, who she credits as her biggest influences. In 1977 when a couple of her high school friends returned from a trip to London as punk rock converts everything changed. Now, throwing classic rock aside,  Yvette wailed her punk rock ballads out on her 1969 Tele Thinline (which she still has) and penned such songs as "Just Another Punk Rocker Wailing At The Moon" and "Holocaust At Disco City". Gems never to see the light of day. 

Yvette wanted to be in a band and in 1980 she fulfilled her punk-rock dream by joining the San Francisco all-girl group, "Wilma" where she played electric guitar and sang mostly backup except for the self-penned college-radio hit "Life Without Adjectives" (http://soundcloud.com/yvettekay/life-without-adjectives. Wilma was a Bay Area favorite post-punk band and was signed to San Francisco Indy record label, Subterranean Records where they released a 45" single in 1981 and then posthumously a full-length album in 1985. Wilma never toured outside of the Bay Area, but their music is still played on College Radio stations across the country. 

All through the 80s Yvette continued to play in bands honing her singing, songwriting skills and electric guitar playing. Her musical style had become more sophisticated and daring. Now she was influenced by bands like The Pretenders, Simple Minds and Roxy Music. While in bands she played many gigs and opened for quite a few big name acts of the day. During these years she gained a lot of confidence performing as a front person.

In 1990 Yvette's songwriting again reaped the benefits of great mentoring by talented Bay Area producer Bill Cutler who she had worked with a few years earlier. They would spend hours picking through her material and re-working things to get a song just right: re-writing lyrics, vocal phrasing and changing song structures and parts. This effort had a big influence on Yvette's songwriting then and in the future. By now her songs were more in the folk-rock vein and In 1991 Yvette and Bill recorded a demo together in which he hired great session players and recording engineer Gary Mankin. Click here for the link to these songs: http://soundcloud.com/yvettekay/sets/1991-demo-san-francisco 

Beginning in 1992 Yvette, playing solo, strapped on the acoustic guitar and put her harmonica in a rack and played the coffee-house folk circuit for tips. She played with a confident and rhythmic flat picking style, uniquely her own, and her lyrics reflected her deeper and more spiritual side. Matured as a singer/songwriter, in 1995 Yvette recorded this group of songs for the self-released CD, "New Voice New Eyes". Click here for songs from "New Voice New Eyes": http://soundcloud.com/yvettekay/sets/1995-cd-release-new-voice-new-eyes

Eventually life and it's challenges screamed louder than playing music and Yvette decided to go to recording engineering school and get a "real" job. Eight years of working and other distractions passed by and unfortunately her songwriting was mostly left behind. Yvette recently called upon her songwriting muse again, but it's being stubborn. She was able to quickly get her voice and acoustic guitar playing chops back, but her muse is slowly returning, but has not "re-mused" completely to her satisfaction. For other fellow musicians, this detail should be taken as a cautionary note. Don't let your muse die or be taken for granted, it's not easy to bring back. Songwriting needs to be stroked in order to thrive. 

In the meantime, while stoking the fires of her muse, Yvette plays in two bands. In The Big Bossies, an acoustic trio, she plays and sings her own compositions accompanied by cello and accordion. These songs are in the process of being recorded in Yvette's home Pro Tools HD studio, Chez Baboo Productions and will eventually be added to soundcloud.com - stay tuned. 

Yvette also plays bass, which she took up over the last 8 years, in a rock cover tune band that rehearses just for the enjoyment of "rocking out with your cock out". The Belle Amiz play music by Neil Young, The Beatles, The Pretenders, The Kinks, Talking Heads, The Eagles, Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt and others. This band has absolutely no intention of playing for anyone other than the neighbors who, luckily, never complain. 

------Thanks for your interest. Enjoy the music and please leave your comments, Yvette

Yvette Kay

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