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Woodstock at the Crossroads, EP

by Liz Hamill

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1.
Belly Button Window (Jimi Hendrix) 05:35
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well i'm up way up here in this womb i'm looking all around i'm looking out my belly button window i see nothing but a whole lot of frowns and i'm wondering if you don't want me around hey just what seems to be the fuss out there? just what seems to be the hang? 'cause you know if you don't want me hanging around this time i'll be glad to go back to spirit land i'll even take a longer rest before coming down the shoot again i sure remember the last time baby they're still honkin' bout me there 'cause if you don't want me now make up your mind, this way or that 'cause if you don't want me now make up your mind, this way or that 'cause i ain't coming down this way too much more you know they got pills for ills and thrills and even spills but I think you're just a little too late 'cause i'm coming down into this world regardless of love or hate i'm gonna sit up in your bed and i'm going to grin right in your face and then i'm gonna eat up all your chocolates and say "i hope i'm not too late" 'cause if you don't want me now make up your mind, this way or that 'cause if you don't want me now make up your mind, this way or that 'cause I ain't coming down this way too much more well i'm way up here in this womb i'm looking all around i'm looking out my belly button window i see nothing but a whole lot of frowns i'm wondering if you don't want me around
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Blue Woodstock (Joni Mitchell) 05:02
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she came upon a child of god he was walking along the road she asked him where are you going this he told me i'm going on down to Yasgur's farm i'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band i'm going to camp out on the land and get my soul free we are stardust we are golden and we've got to get ourselves blue songs are like tatoos she said then can I walk beside you i've come here to lose the smog i feel to be a cog in something turning round and round maybe it is just the time of year maybe it's the time of man i don't know who i am but life is for learning we are stardust we are golden and we got to get ourselves past acid, booze and ass needles, guns and grass by the time they got to woodstock they were half a million strong and everywhere there was song and celebration she dreamed she saw the bombers riding shotgun in the sky they were turning into butterflies above our nation we are stardust we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden back to the garden
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Crossroad Blues (Robert Johnson) 04:11
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i went to the crossroad, fell down on my knee i went to the crossroad, fell down on my knee asked the lord above have mercy, save me, if you please i'm standin' at the crossroad, i tried to flag a ride i'm standin' at the crossroad, i tried to flag a ride didn't nobody seem to know me, everybody pass me by sun's going down now, dark's going to catch me here sun's going down now, dark's going to catch me here i ain't got no one that love and feel my care you can run, you can run, tell my friend you can run, you can run, tell my friend lord that i'm standing at the crossroad, i believe i'm sinkin' down

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"...She's very different, very distinctive and is really adding a new dimension to songwriting in New England...[Liz] has a little bit of Ricki Lee Jones, Joni Mitchell, Shawn Colvin, Suzanne Vega and Michelle Shocked all mixed up in her sound. She is not necessarily using a traditional ballad style; she is taking it one step further!" -- Dick Pleasants, WGBH 97.9 FM, "Folk Heritage Show" Boston, Massachusetts

"Synergizing folk, blues and jazz, Liz Hamill has added a fresh powerful voice to the folk and women's music scenes...Her delivery is reminiscent of Joni Mitchell, particularly in her use of discord as counterpoint to exceptionally literary lyrics and simple catchy melodies."
-- Soujourner Magazine, Boston, Massachusetts

“She makes you want to hear it.” – Chris Smither, a modern John Lee Hooker-Lightnin’ Hopkins and Bonnie Raitt’s ‘Eric Clapton’

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released July 11, 2012

Cover songs by Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell and Robert Johnson

Liz Hamill, Producer, Arranger
Dave Rizzutti, Engineering and Mixing
Melissa Taylor, Design

Cambridge, Massachusetts and San Francisco, CA

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Liz Hamill San Francisco, California

Worked in the folk scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Studied with MacArthur recipient, pianist, Ran Blake and Yiddish- Klezmer music revivalist, Hankus Netsky and jazz guitarist, Mick Goodrick. Producer for Dakini Music. Consulting with Dickinson College about The Allen Tanner Papers, LGBTQ Studies. Currently, returning to work in Folk music and Contemporary Improvisation in San Francisco. ... more

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