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MP3 Alerts!
This is something brand new, now you can get any one song from any of my 21 CD's, so you can turn any of your friends on to what i do for the modest sum of $.99. Perfect IPOD gifts.
Go to ITunes or Snocap.com or any of the other reputable download sites, they all have all my music. The CD's or the indiviual songs are all available. Gee, what a guy!
MP3s of all of the albums in the store are now available for purchase through CDBaby. Check out your favorites now!
Special Appearance Note:
Listen to James on Rob Reinhart's Acoustic Cafe, which was originally broadcast on Monday, August 27. The segment will be available through the archive at www.MLive.com/cafe, or the whole show can be streamed at www.acafe.com.
A Word from James:
It's my birthday month...I can't believe that I'm going to celebrate this many birthdays and I'm still lucky enough to be making music. I am blessed with so many friends and supporters, it humbles me. And to those generous spirits that keep putting me up in their homes, I don't even know how to begin to thank you. In these strained economic times (thanks to the appointed george), I couldn't do these shows without your help. Your generosity allows me to be me and I am sincerely grateful.
And for some reason I can't fathom (perhaps a triumph of hope over common sense or simple math), I have been writing like crazy and have about twenty songs in various stages. The next CD, which I thought was never going to happen, is perhaps going to happen now. I'm cooking. I start recording the new album this week, so it will be at least a year before it's done.
I am also considering doing a live CD again. A solo one I mean. The songs have all evolved and the way I do them solo is frequently different than the way I did them in the studio.
As for performances, please check the appearance page as there is always something new going up there. I'm doing solo shows and shows with John Batdorf. Peter and I are also talking about doing some dates down the road, so I'll keep you posted about that.
The Datamusicata Blog is going crazy, and we've crested 250,000 hits as of april 4th. That's over a quarter of a million hits and I'm talking legitimate hits, not robots. It's amazing.
For those of you who are unaware of it, it's a free artist resource site that I've created to give back to the community everything that I have learned in forty years on the road...and can still remember. Here's the url: www.datamusicata.com I also have guest columnists, so there is always something interesting and informative and there are always the fun fotos, either of some non sequitur or someone famous, or of me and my cronies. Hope to see you there or...at one of my concerts.
See you in a minute...and o before i forget...
TO HEAR SONG CLIPS FROM
THE ETERNAL CONTRADICTION,
JUST CLICK ON THE RED TITLE BELOW:
"the eternal contradiction" (a tip of the hat to the inner turmoil that comes with living in these bodies). i've been getting some incredible reviews on this one, i hope that you will take some of your time to check it out. if you glance to your left, you'll see the cover.
If you want to know all about the recording process, the instruments, etc and the lyrics to the songs and the inspiration for them, just click on the eternal contradiciton link below the album cover.
the songs on the eternal contradiction are:
this fleeting moment, let the tree fall; mary january; here we are; street where mercy died; world we left behind; on the bus?; change; the loner; nothing to keep you on my mind; and it's all in the game.
scott breadman did the percussion and ken lyon did most of the bass (colin cameron did bass on let the tree fall and i did bass on this fleeting moment, nothing, and here we are). batdorf and i did some background vocals on "here we are" and "the loner". the soloists include Mark Rodney, Corky Siegel, Peter Tork and Bradley Vines. Lisa Turner did some great background vocals on Let the Tree Fall. it's a beautiful recording.
speaking of recording, i just did some background vocals for john batdorf on his new solo cd. great song and great parts. we really sound so good when we sing together. meanwhile, john and i have discussed doing a west coast tour where in we do our solo stuff and then close the evening with all wood and stones, so it would be a two and a half hour concert, but it will go by like the wind. the songs are great and we have some kind of magic together.
On the equipment side, i highly recommend these incredible elixir strings. i love them. they sound great and they last and last and are also really easy to play...and no squeaking. very cool.
the pt/jls show has evolved. for those of you who saw the september october concert tour, you know that we've changed the format. rather than doing three sets each show, one me, one peter and one together, we just go up on stage together, play some stuff together and then turn the stage over for a couple of solo tunes, back together and back for the other fellows solo tunes followed by us together for the finale. we've been having so much fun. peter is spontaneous fun and one of my oldest and dearest friends. peter also played a little banjo on one of the cuts, "the world we left behind" on
the eternal contradiction.
i've also toured the country with one of my favorite musicians and people, john batdorf. so musical and so solid. i love working with him and our all wood and stones continues to sell and to draw folks around the country, the towne crier notwithstanding.
remember Tom Dundee and go to his page on myspace. he was my dearest friend. and i still ache to think of his passing.
and altho i've finished the rework on stolen season and now i'm working on the resequencing for traces of the old road. i still haven't remastered it. but already, it sounds better than before and flows much cooler. i listened today and i'm going to have to remix a couple more things before i put it back out. it's got to be right.
i'll be touring as much as i possibly can over the next year. hope that i get to see you up close and sing for you live.
all the best and happy new year,
james lee
TO HEAR ALL WOOD AND STONES, PLEASE LOG ON TO www.allwoodandstones.com
USA Today Wednesday, Nov 4 in the LIFE section reviewed All Wood and Stones. Here's what they had to say: Singer/guitart/composers John Batdorf & James Lee Stanley stripped down Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby?, Under My Thumb and nine other Rolling Stones tunes into acoustic skeletons, confounding logic by rendering a subdued version of Let's Spend the Night Together with former Monkee Peter Tork on guitar into a stirring affair. Batdor & Stanley have turned the rock grooves inside out, adopted stylish arrangements and made no attempt to ape the originials, unveiling the elegance of the melodies and allowing radically new interpretations of songs long tattooed in boomer DNA. Paint it fresh -Edna Gundersen
A Sad Word from James on Oct 3rd, 2005:
dear friends in the folk community,
hamliton camp passed away last night. evidently from a heart attack. for those of you who knew him, this is a profound loss. for those who didn't, hamilton was there as the great folk scare began. judy collins opened for hamilton and his partner bob camp at the gate of horn in chicago.
there is also a recording of one of their concerts there. it is called gibson and camp at the gate of horn. since that time in the early sixties, he wrote, performed and toured as well as evolving into a fine actor, whose work could be seen in beatty's heaven can wait amongst countless others. he was also a guest twice on the tv series mash.
we had been friends since we performed together at the earl of old town in chicago in the mid seventies, he with the skymonters and me solo.
last summer he called and asked me to produce a recording of him that was dedicated to his lovely wife rasjada who had passed away over two years ago. he came in, utterly prepared and performed the songs with so much heart, i suggested that we record him live, voice and guitar and then have the other musicians simply play afterwards and just serve his performances. both he and his son ray told me that no one had ever captured him so spot on. only this past friday, hamilton and i just finished the cover art and copy for the album beachwood recordings will be releasing the cd in november. it is called sweet joy. i think he was just staying here to finish this recording for rashada and then, when he knew it was all done, he slipped away.
he was a wonderfully funny, charming and talented man and one of my dearest friends. the world is a poorer place without him in it.
you can post me here if you want to send an email to his family. he is survived by a wonderful group of children and grandchildren. he was a blessed man.
For those who are interested in obtaining Hamilton's last CD, here is the info:
Hamilton Camp / Sweet Joy
Songs:
Song of the Wandering Angus
Long Train
2:19
Nothin’ But the Blues
New Beginnings
Highway Man
Sittin on a Roof Top
Celts/Go No More A Rovin’
Pride of Man
Ring Them Bells
Sweet Joy
Windsong
Musicians: Hamilton Camp, Paul Barrere, Ken Lyon and James Lee Stanley
The CD is available from the Store page.
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