Crabtree&Mills on YouTube

Subject: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 08:25 PM

At long last Paul and I have taken the plunge into video world. It was a busy writing summer for me, and you can see us singing two of our newest songs here:

Waterfalls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyX3NhDoWN4

and here:

Black Dirt Blues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-TRnlAkjM

Happy New Year to everyone!

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 10:17 PM

Can't listen until Monday, but it'll be first on the list of TTD. Congratulations.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: Duke
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 11:17 AM

Great sounds and honest to goodness finger picking. I couldn't ask for better music. Congratulations guys!

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 12:24 PM

Great to hear from you, Duke.
Yes, isn't Paul a fine exemplar of the New York School of Finger Picking?

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 01:12 PM

I love it! Great Stuff!!

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: Tinker
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 01:29 PM

Thank you --- wonderfully crafted and wonderfully done.....

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 01:55 PM

I'm often asked why I, a British-born naturalized Canadian, write so many songs with American themes. I'm sure there are more reasons than I consciously recognize, but one important reality is that I am married to an American from Minnesota, and through him and his family have come to know and love the Mississippi River.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 10:06 PM

Hi Y'all

It's been ages since I visited the 'cat butI hope you'll still talk to me! :) Had a ball putting these videos together and I guess we're kinda thinking this is one of the ways it's done now....put your music out there for everyone to enjoy free and maybe they'll pick up your CDs or come and see you live. These two songs are brand new and not available on any CD at the moment but will be down the road soon, we hope. They continue to show what a wonderful songwriter Joanne is.

Paul Mills

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 10:09 PM

She's better'n brilliant. Tell her that's from her old pal out west.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 10:38 PM

Dear GUEST, 999 - I miss you. Please PM me a current e-mail address.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: Beer
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 11:08 PM

Holly snapin arseholes that was great. Thanks balladeer for posting this. Here is a quick connection for the Mudgang



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyX3NhDoWN4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-TRnlAkjM

Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 11:57 PM

Thanks, Adrien, I hoped someone would make those links work!

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: olddude
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 12:14 AM

WOW is that great holy cow absolutely brilliant

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: GUEST,999
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 12:15 AM

Slump's over, huh? Just e-mailed you, J.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: GUEST,Ed Riley
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 09:06 AM

Very nice. I look forward to seeing more of your videos.

Ed

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 10:44 AM

Hey, everyone, thanks for all the support.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: JedMarum
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 01:37 PM

Great job on these videos, Joanne and Paul! I love 'em both!

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 08:26 PM

Jed, always great to hear from you!

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: GUEST,999
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 08:30 PM

Waterfalls--best-written song I've heard in many years.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: olddude
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 09:27 PM

I agree 9's   incredible song and performance 4 sure

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 09:45 PM

It sure is a thrill when songwriters I admire like my songs!

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 11:08 PM

Good songs, well played!

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: open mike
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 12:44 AM

trains and rivers!! hooray! how could you go wrong??!!

Hey , don't you have a song about a bird?
I will be continuing the bird theme in my next radio show..

look here for more...

http://www.joannecrabtree.com/

http://www.themillstream.com/

http://www.paulmills.ca/ (a.k.a. Curly Boy Stubbs)

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 02:59 AM

Joanne and Paul: Wonderful songs, wonderful performances. Dan O'Connell (old dude) told me to check you out...he's got great taste.

Charles

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 10:50 AM

To those in the Montreal area: Do you know of some people and/or places I could send these links to in hopes of maybe finding some club or house concert work for Paul and me? So far, Crabtree&Mills has never played in Quebec. I'd be grateful for any suggestions.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: Beer
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 11:35 AM

I know several. One of which I book musicians. The first link is the one I'm involved with. Scroll dow a bit and you'll see the up coming performers.
Adrien

http://sites.google.com/site/cafenamasthe/Home

http://www.sidedoorcoffeehouse.com/aboutsdch.cfm

http://www.yellowdoor.org/coffeehouse.html

Hope this helps a bit.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 12:51 PM

Adrien, thanks for the information. I will definitely look into all of your leads!

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: GUEST,999
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 08:00 PM

J, check your e-mail.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 01:52 AM

Hi everyone: At six pm my beloved Mac Powerbook blew up and I was left incommunicado until my kind husband lent me this foreign-feeling but very useful PC! Note to Open Mike: In 2008 Paul and I wrote a song that has a Piliated Woodpecker in it. The year before that I wrote Flight of Fancy, which begins thus:

Birds fly high, they've got places to be
Stop and build a nest in the top of a tree
I'm flying too, my nesting days are through
I wanna take a flight of fancy with you

More at www.joannecrabtree.com

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 09:15 AM

Hey Joanne, congratulations!
The videos are wonderful! I love how Waterfall turned out with the images blended throughout the song. Adds another dimension to your powerful lyrics. You both look relaxed and natural.
You did a great job!

Banjo Bonnie

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: Beer
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 09:27 AM

Joanne,your site seem to be down. Maybe someone else could also try and confirm.
Ad.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 11:14 AM

Thank you,Adrien. I'll check that out.
(Thank you, Bonnie!)

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: Peter T.
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 01:38 PM

Lovely songs. I don't know whether I've ever seen you dolled up in pearls.... (Paul that is).

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 06:55 PM

Peter!
LOL!!!

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: GUEST,999
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 07:02 PM

Paul also looks great in a dress. (I've heard stories.)

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 12:10 AM

Paul is busy with a project in Halifax this week and has no idea what Dame-Edna-esque visuals you lot are conjuring up!

One good thread drift deserves another: I'm thrilled with my new toy - a MacBook Pro. It has a back-lit keyboard so I can write songs in the dark!!!

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: Beer
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 12:12 AM

Halifax! My place of living. wish i was still there.
Ad.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: GUEST,999
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 12:26 AM

I too write songs in the dark, but because I use pen and paper I keep the lights on and pretend. I live a confused life.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 02:09 AM

Pen, pencil, computer - I scribble everywhere, including in the margins of my crossword puzzles. Does anyone else here feel guilty when they're not writing?

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: Big Mick
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 03:07 PM

I have been a bit overwhelmed lately with a building project, Mom and Dad, a graduating high school senior and her party, as well as her college apps/aid, and a performing schedule that seems to be taking on a life of its own. But I am very happy I checked in at the Mudcat to chime in on this one.

I heard Waterfalls while I was in Toronto for a week working on mixdown and overdubs on the new Conklin Ceili Band CD. I fell in love with it immediately and determined that it would be purloined forthwith. The only problem is that I can't play like Paul(very few can) and I can't sing like Joanne. Other than that, I think I can have a hit with it!! Seriously, I agree with my friend with the numbered name, that this is one of the finest combination of lyrics, tune, and instrumental artistry I have heard in a long while. But I am luckier than most of you in that I get to see these folks fairly regularly, so I knew what was coming. Black Dirt Blues demonstrates exactly how versatile a lyric writer Joanne is.

Who did the camera work? It is wonderful, and the editing was spot on as well.

If you want a rare and real treat, do all you can to book these two into a local venue. I was privileged to see them at a small Toronto club with Peter T. in early October. There is a musical connection between them that is palpable. Combine that with their red hot musical skills, some amazing lyrics, and the fact that they clearly love performing together, and you have a concert you will not soon forget. I always consider myself to be a pretty lucky guy in that I have had the good fortune to be around a lot of stellar players, performers, and songwriters. I can honestly say that I have never enjoyed a concert more than Crabtree and Mills. You just leave it feeling great. In those videos, you can see why.

Be well, my friends. I hope to see you both soon.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 04:35 PM

Wow, Mick, you sure have lots going on right now (but then, you always do!)!

A big congratulations on being one of the artists who contributed to the success of the Grammy-nominated Utah Phillips tribute album.

Thanks for finding the time to write that glowing recommendation of our songs and our shows.

Fyi, the only people involved in the making of the videos were Paul and me. I wrote the songs and he did everything else. Well, I did get to say, "I like that photo better than that one," a few times during the editing phase, but really it was pretty much all him.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:29 PM

Thanks to all who took the time to comment on Waterfalls and Black Dirt Blues. I very much appreciate your encouragement, and I will be looking for bookings in and around Montreal and Grand Rapids when I get home from my jamming weekend in rural Ontario.

Blessings on you all!!!

Joanne

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: GUEST,999
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 02:21 PM

This deserves another run.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 04:45 PM

Just back from a weekend in the country with thirty jammers who like to stay up all night ... well ... jamming! Lots of fun, and I think it's probably like those Mudcat "getaways" Rick Fielding used to describe so fondly to me.

The folks really liked playing along and singing with me on Waterfalls.

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: balladeer
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 11:04 PM

I'm sorry to see this thread come to an end (even though everything always does!).

Reading your positive responses to our little "living-room" project was a real thrill.

Thank you all for the kind words and the booking leads.

Joanne Crabtree

Subject: RE: Crabtree&Mills on YouTube
From: Beer
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 11:06 PM

Your so very welcome
ad.