Another cover-The Way I Feel

[Auburn Annie]

Frida's Brow
Frida's Brow
Independent

Each of the three women in Frida's Brow - Chris MacLean, Alise Marlane and Jennifer Noxon - is a good solo singer-songwriter. But, in coming together as Frida's Brow, the Ottawa-area trio has achieved something very special with their gorgeous harmonies and subtly creative arrangements that incorporate elements of swing, bluegrass and traditional Québécois music into their contemporary folk base. All three contribute some fine originals including Noxon's Sleep On, a haunting historical ballad set in the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, MacLean's Spring, which celebrates the end of winter, and Marlane's title track, a tribute to the natural uni-brow beauty of artist Frida Kahlo. They also include several covers including sublime versions of Gordon Lightfoot's classic The Way I Feel and Charlie Sohmer's Marie-Anne Lagimodière. ****
Podworthy: The Way I Feel
- Mike Regenstreif

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazett...9-d730240cfd98

Review from Montreal Gazette:

[Jesse Joe]

This is nice to know thanks for sharing Annie.

[RM]

I'm impressed. They have 2 minute samples on their CDBaby site, and their treatment of 'The Way I Feel' is interesting. Their MySpace site has 4 complete songs (The Way I Feel NOT included). 'Old Friends' is catchy. They remind me of The Roches.

[charlene]

very nice:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/fridasbrow

[johnfowles]

Most interesting whilst you three were posting here I was busily fighting this lethargic dial up connection to investigate.
my comments are:-

1. Mike Regenstreif is well known (by Val at least) as a Montreal DJ who often has featured Gord in his programmes
   
2. the my space site is at:-
   http://www.myspace.com/fredasbrow
3. On the CD baby site is their debut CD
   
4. There there are indeed links to "play all songs" in hi (broadband) quality or lower (dialup) and individual links to dial up (lofi) 2 minute samples.
5. The TWIF link is to an m3u playlist file
   http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/fridasbrow-10.m3u
6. Which I saved then opened in wordpad to extract the actual mp3 URL, which is:-
   http://audio.cdbaby.com/67c81e23/mp3...dasbrow-10.mp3

You can right click on that URL then "save target as" to get the 32KBPS mp3 of only 470KB
it plays well though

1. Well well enough to confirm that it is not so much "sublime" as plain "weird"
2. But then TWIF is way down in my own list of GL favourites!!
3. to upload this, because this forum upload system does not accept mp3s as such, I zipped it to produce an even smaller (458KB) zipfile
4. Note that in fact you could upload (zipped) mp3s as large as 5MB

[Jesse Joe]

Thanks John, I just added this to my music file, but it only plays for 2 minutes.

[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by Jesse Joe

Thanks John, I just added this to my music file, but it only plays for 2 minutes.

I do not understand Cher Omer why you should be confused both RonM and myself clearly refferred to 2 minute "samples"

[Jesse Joe]

Yah OK,{lol} but why does it not have the entire song ?

[Jesse Joe]

I know because it's a 2 minute sample. Just checking if you would respond...and you did.

[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by Jesse Joe

Yah OK,{lol} but why does it not have the entire song ?

Yikes
Err Umm lets ponder that question a moment
Yes a sample per the on online dictionary at:-
http://dictionary.reference.com/
is:-
"a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen."
another definition I found is:-
"A portion, piece, or segment that is representative of a whole."
My best guess then is that the site is directed at getting punters to shell out for the full version (the complete CD's worth of mp3s) , so all they need to show is a tempting sample. Of course "sample" might mean something altogether different in french!!

[Jesse Joe]

John did you try to send loveabiggibson a PM ? Im the one who got it... See everybody makes mistakes. And you had nothing bad to say about me in it. Im quite happy mon amis.