Butterfly Janis & Alice

Music Pages

For December, we've got new Chicks To Watch, a new CD review, and a feature article on the quest for musical fame and fortune.   We liked Janis's outraged rant so much it's become a regular column here.  Yay Angst! We've also added Alice's Classical Chat, with which we hope to draw in you upper-class types.some more fabulous links to musical sites, and new quotes from very cool musician-types.  To contribute to the music pages, e-mail us at BFlyJanisAlice@aol.com.

FOCUS ON STUDENTS: FAME AND FORTUNE

What's more important to you as a musician?  Fame, financial success....are they worth compromising your music?  Is it even a compromise at all, or is it merely a means to a goal?  We asked you.  You answered.

Chicks To Watch

==> Janis didn't have any chicks to watch this issue.  When asked, she just scowled and griped, "Where's Liz Phair?" ==> Remember our chick to watch, Dana Mase?  She e-mailed us!  Isn't that sweet?  What a doll.  ==> We're stumped!  We haven't seen any cool new chicks this month!                                     Know of a chick we should watch?  E-mail us at BFlyJanisAlice@aol.com

Janis Mouths Off

Alice's Classical Chat

Today I am going to plug my article in Extreme Culture, the section of Culture Finder that so applies to you ladies-it's for students in the arts.  I wrote an article on the fabulous diva Kathleen Battle.  She got fired from the Met in 1994  for her bitchiness, and she hasn't done anything in a while, but read the article because she's a true talent and blows that little Church girl outta the water....she's a coloratura soprano, but not annoyingly screechy or lame in any way.  If you like her, do a search and it'll pull up some sites that can tell you where to get her recordings.  To read my article, pull up keyword Extreme Culture and go to Singer's Spot....it's me!  I wrote it!  You like me!  You really like me!

Well, here I am again....pissed off...I just got back from the horribly crowded mall and that travesty of capitalism, Wherehouse Music.  Why do I even BOTHER going IN there when I know I'll leave mad?  Since when should a twenty-year old Billy Joel album cost twenty bucks?  Since when should the Rocky Horror Picture show cost twenty bucks on VHS?  What is wrong with these people?  And who are the IDIOTS who keep paying these god-awful prices, when you can get the same stuff from Hastings for half the price?  I'm afraid for the average consumer, I really am.  And, on another note, I found this excellent punk compilation called "Fat Music for Fat People" put out by, fittingly enough, Fat Wreck Chords.  It's got a funny cartoon on the front of two hefty folks dancing.  Get it.....you'll like it.

SHE REVIEWS

West Textures, Robert Earl Keen, Jr. review by Butterfly Robert Earl Keen is from Houston, Texas and has a HUGE and eclectic fan-base, much like Jerry Jeff Walker and Jimmy Buffet.  I personally used to waitress with a guy who'd been to EVERY SINGLE CONCERT he'd ever done.  That kind of fanaticism's GOT to prove something, right?  Absolutely right.    This is the first album he put out, I think.  Check out track three, Maria.  It's pretty and slow, with lyrics like, "But I can't speak for you, Maria/I only know the way I feel/When I sleep with you Maria/There's nothing left for dreams to steal"  Aw.  For something alot less sensitive, check out track ten, It's the Little Things(That Piss Me Off).  "It's the way you stroke my hair when I lie sleeping/It's the way you tell me things that I don't know/It's the way that you remember/I came home late for dinner/eleven months and fourteen days ago."   Keen is a lot of fun.  He's a good ol' boy, and sings like one.  This album is old, but I'm recommending  it because it has the greatest Keen song ever-The Road Goes On Forever-it's like Margaritaville and Parrotheads....we all know all the words and sing along, that whole thing.  Anyway, if you like folk/country artists like Tom T Hall, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffet, Jerry Jeff, Pat Green, and Charlie Robison, you'll LOVE Robert Earl Keen.  Check him out.  This CD is so old, it's probably cheap, too!

WORDS WE LIKE

SOME FAVORITE MUSIC LINKS

Strange Fruit written by Lewis Allen as sung by Billie Holiday Southern trees bear a strange fruit; Blood on the leaves and blood at the root; Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze; Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant South; The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth; Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh; Then the sudden smell of burning flesh. Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck; For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop, Here is a strange and bitter crop.

Butterfly Folk Diva.com-grassroots record label for women's music Pat Green.com-another fabulous Texan man. Willie Nelson.com-official home page of the red-headed stranger Janis MetalGrrlz-for chicks who dig heavy metal Rockrgrl-Rockrgrl magazine online Gas Huffer-excellent band.  They've been in some movies! Alternative Distribution Alliance-distributor of indie labels Womanrock.com -all people interested in women who rock        Alice Celestial Voices-this is a visually stunning website devoted to "haunting, ethereal female voices".  That's you, sopranos! Footlight.com-wonderful place to order  rare albums About Classical Music-composers, performers, and more For the Love of Music-reviews, editorials, and links Know any great music links?  Send 'em in!

musically inclined girls have visited us

Butterfly Janis & Alice home

To go to our literary page

To go to our poetry page