Eva Tree Interview/Live-performance at KUOW 94.9 FM
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John Moe (JM): September 26th, 2006, 94.9 KUOW, Seattle. I'm John Moe. When singer / songwriters go to write their songs, they have lots of ways they could go, lots of material they could choose... love, politics... For Canadian-born, Seattle-resident singer/songwriter Eva Tree the material she chose was a little closer to home, some stories that have been passed around in her family. Those stories have made their way onto her new record, her second solo effort, Sail Away, which was recently released to critical acclaim. Here along side Bill Dickerson and Dan Tyack is Eva Tree. |
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[Live performance of Hurricane with Eva Tree (guitar, vocals), Bill Dickerson (guitar), and Dan Tyack (dobro). ] |
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JM: Eva Tree, wecome to KUOW. ET: Thank you, John. JM: What's that song about? |
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ET: That song was born from conversations with my father, performance-poet Blake Parker. He's been fighting cancer, and we've been talking about the velocity of time, and how, when you're in an intense experience, time speeds up, and ultimately we are changed by time. So that song is called Hurricane and it's about the velocity of time. |
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JM: A lot of the songs, all the songs I believe, on your new record, have their roots with your father? |
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ET: Yes. My father wrote a script, a fabulous script, called The Princess and the Kid, and these songs are born from the characters. So they tell the stories interwoven into his larger script of essential this hero... (well it's an involved story), but the album is also intended and meant to stand alone. So you don't need the script. |
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JM: What was that like for you, working on this music that was based on stories from your father especially given your father's illness? How did that impact you personally? |
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ET: It was a profound experience actually. It was the first time we had ever collaborated, and I felt that we bridged a friendship that we had never had. |
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JM: Hmmm... a creative partnership leading to a friendship? |
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ET: Exactly. He had never let anyone edit his script before, so I got to be involved in a whole new process with that. Writing songs from the perspective that I was writing from, the songs came very, very easily, as opposed to writing a story song about me, or, you know what I mean, about a love song particular to me. So it was unique in that way. |
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JM: Well, let's hear another song from Sail Away. |
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ET: Wonderful... [Live performance of Strangest Man with Eva Tree (vocals), Bill Dickerson (guitar, backup vocals), and Dan Tyack (dobro). ] |
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JM: Eva Tree, with Bill Dickerson on guitar and vocals, and Dan Tyack on pedal steel [sic., dobro]. Eva Tree's new record is Sail Away. She plays on Thursday night at The Crocodile Cafe in Seattle [9/28/06], and Saturday evening [9/30/06] at the Island Center Hall on Bainbridge Island. [Sign off]: 94.9 KUOW, Seattle. |
(the audio from this interview is used by permission)
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October 8, 2006
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