This download requires an email address, which will ONLY be added to a media-specific email list, allowing for easy and direct delivery of my debut album "Geography" in 2021.
A curated collection of cover songs as we toast the end of 2020 produced by Kyle Reid and Rigby Summer, with a title track featuring members of Les Royal Pickles from
This download requires an email address, which will ONLY be added to a media-specific email list, allowing for easy and direct delivery of my debut album "Geography" in 2021.
A curated collection of cover songs as we toast the end of 2020 produced by Kyle Reid and Rigby Summer, with a title track featuring members of Les Royal Pickles from Montreal, Quebec.
This radio-only delivery also includes a copy of a bonus track, my previously-released debut single "Ballad of the Star."
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0:00/3:07
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0:00/3:24
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0:00/4:35
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A Long December 4:030:00/4:03
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Summer's End 3:320:00/3:32
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Ballad of the Star 3:350:00/3:35
THANK YOU!
The following stations or shows have already added "Dancing Alone" to their programming!
Wyoming Sounds on Wyoming Public Radio
The Tasty Brew on KKFI Kansas City
The Oklahoma Rock Show--KOSU/The Spy
Kaleidoscope on WYSO Yellow Springs, OH
Sheppy FM 92.2--Sheerness, England
KOFO 1220AM/103.7FM Ottawa, KS
IF WE MAKE IT THROUGH DECEMBER
By Merle Haggard
Running Time: 3:07
90 BPM 2/2
A modern take on a Merle Haggard classic, the opening line alone could be an anthem for the end of 2020: "If we make it through December, everything's gonna be alright, I know..."
The opening track on the album begins with a shimmery, ethereal pedal steel and electric guitar intro before the train beat emerges and the tune begins around the 30 second mark.
DANCING ALONE
By Kyle Reid
Running Time: 3:24
110 BPM 4/4
An upbeat tune set on New Year's Eve that is sure to bring a smile to your face and a tap to your toe.
The track opens with a 35-second pedal steel intro of Auld Lang Syne and features founding members of Montreal's Les Royal Pickles, Louis Leveque (banjo) and Christian LeClerc (tuba).
WHAT ARE YOU DOING YEAR'S EVE
By Frank Loesser
Running Time: 4:35
60 BPM 6/8
A haunting delivery of a holiday classic.
This track features a simple hollow body electric accompaniment with an earnest yet vulnerable vocal performance. A highlight of this track is a near-perfect lonesome pedal steel solo from Kyle Reid at 2:30.
A LONG DECEMBER
By Adam Duritz, Ben Mize, Daniel Vickrey, Matthew Malley, Charles Gillingham, and David Bryson (Counting Crows)
Running Time: 4:03
73 BPM 4/4
The most produced track on the project, this is a unique take on a year-end favorite.
The track opens with exposed electric guitar and vocal. The subtle tension derived from this simple production makes the arrival of the rhythm section and harmonies at 2:16 so very satisfying.
SUMMER’S END
By John Prine and Patrick McLauglin
Running Time: 3:31
86 BPM 2/2
A fitting tribute to John Prine, this track was not originally planned for this project. But an unplanned off-the-cuff one-take recording turned out to be the perfect ending for the collection. Rigby Summer explains:
"We recorded all the songs for this album in two afternoons at Kyle's new space in Norman. But it was the end of summer and little did we know that we would fight to keep the singing cicadas outside from bleeding in to our mics in the studio. On the second day, while doing final vocals for (What are You Doing) New Year's Eve, the cicadas returned so we decided to play this John Prine tune I had been fiddling on between takes with hopes that it would pass the time till the pests moved along. Sure enough, by the time we finished one take, the cicadas left and we went back to work. When Kyle sent the first set of mixes he said 'I trimmed up that Prine tune--I think you're gonna like it.' A few days later, I found out we didn't receive clearance for another song, so a way was made for 'Summer's End' to join the album. Total kismet."
“Rigby Summer has a seasoned voice
in the manner of many of the fine female balladeers of the past.
But this singer/songwriter offers new and old perspectives
on the condition of love in the modern world.”
— Rick Reiley, The Corridor Magazine
In-Studio Interviews
Link to article and interview on Kaleidescope on WYSO in Yellow Springs, OH.
Link to in-studio interview at High Plains Public Radio in Amarillo, TX.
“One of the things that has struck me about Rigby's songwriting is that she has this gift of creating a world in each song...something that has it’s own discreet story within the world, but then I can receive it as a listener and apply it to my own story.
It’s something really beautiful about her writing.”
-Juliet Fromholt, WYSO Radio (Yellow Springs, Ohio)
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