Acoustic guitar and vocal: Alma DrakeElectric guitar: Pat SmithBass: Christine MoadDrums: Ryan RumeryKeys: Andrew TeutschFrom The Light You Can’t See in the Day; purchase the song or full recording at almadrake.bandcamp.com . Happy Calendrical Roll-over Day! The day we celebrate our national hangover by setting impossible goals for ourselves and swearing we’ll never do it […]
Alma Drake: guitar and vocalSebastian Sauder: CellosAnnie Savage: Violin and violaString arrangement: Jean Littlejohn Songs come from … who really knows? The sky? A muse? And muses can be nearly anybody. I’d been working with a batch of Songwriting Mastery students, playing with chords a LOT. This chord progression came up for me after a
Everything, copyright Alma Drake 2023, Creative Commons (Attrib.) Michael and I met in 1999, when I was still married to somebody else, and at the time, I thought to myself, Dammit! I married the wrong guy! And that thought never changed. In 2023 we corrected that oversight, and our first anniversary is just over a
A couple months ago I had a really intense Shamanic journey to visit our local river god, Jahiowa, who gave me some pretty clear marching orders: Write intentionally healing music that expresses the beauty, joy, and comfort of the land, and share it with as many people as you possibly can. It occurred to me
Usually, after I have recorded a bunch of songs, I immediately start making up new ones. I’ve written a few, and some have been used for other things (like The Harmony Tree and In A Garden of Hope recently choired up by the Family Folk Machine), and some of them are … not quite done,
