My two favorite parts of the music world are: 1) that you truly never know who you will cross paths with, and 2) that it is always really fun to be there at the beginning of something.

Back in my early days at CIMS, one of my close friends and (at the time) bandmate came home from tour with another band and told me that his new friend and fellow musician would be coming to town for a bit and he really wanted me to meet her… that “we would really get along”. She was working on her own songs and while they had breaks on tour, they were going to make a record.

During that period, we would all end up spending a good bit of time together sharing music (our own and others), and there were lots of really fun and really late nights in the studio recording and listening back to tracks. Over the course of that year, sometimes weeks, months, or just days at a time, I watched and listened as those songs that started as laptop demos came to life. I knew from the first time she hit spacebar to play me “a couple of things she had been working on” that she was going to make it and do cool things. I even remember when she decided what her songwriting moniker would be.

So… who was it and where is she now? I knew her as Annie, but most of you probably know her better as that chosen moniker, St. Vincent, and those songs became known to the rest of the world as her debut albumMarry Me.

If nothing else, it does feel good to be right. She certainly did make it and she has done some very cool things since. Tomorrow she is back with her new albumDaddy’s Home.

I got a chance to spend some time with the new album, and upon my first listen I got the feeling of waking up still hazy (certainly with a bit of a headache) from an Oz-like dream of New York. A very specific New York that I particularly love, with all of that ’70s perfectly imperfect grit and grain and definitely a sequin or two. When, if you had “the look”, you could make it past the ropes at 54, and the chances of hanging with Lou or Andy and the gang were high. David, Mick or Elton might even pop by when they were in town. You would get into some trouble, but it would be a lot of fun.

It has been a while since our paths have crossed, but I have to say, Congrats Annie. This is a really good one.

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Andrea

Andrea Paschal
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St. Vincent Daddy's Home (Loma Vista) — St. Vincent
***Daddy's Home***
(**Loma Vista**)