Girl To City: A Memoir

August, 1996. The month everything went right.

My first solo album. Modern dermatology. A kid who quotes Homer Simpson. The slow realization that the road goes on forever...

Songs in this episode:

• Twenty Questions - Diary Of A Mod Housewife
• Don't Know Nothin' - Faulkner, Dylan, Heinz & Me (that's Tony Gilkyson on guitar)
• Tomorrow's All We've Got - A One Way Ticket To My Life
• One Off - The Old Guys

1996. New York and Los Angeles. Letting go and finally getting somewhere...

Songs in this episode:

• You're Getting Old - mid-90s demo, A One Way Ticket To My Life
• Down Side Of Love - Diary Of A Mod Housewife
• Time For Me To Come Down - Diary Of A Mod Housewife

Breaking up is hard to do. The beginnings of Diary Of A Mod Housewife. Temp jobs and uncomfortable elevator encounters.

Songs included in this episode:

• When A Piece Of The Sky Falls - early 90s demo A One Way Ticket To My Life
• Always With Me - From the Shams Quilt
• The Good Girls - Diary Of A Mod Housewife

The magic of three; life as a rock mom and the loud majesty of Urge Overkill and Big Muff distortion pedals...

Songs in this episode:

• Down At The Texaco - early unreleased Shams demo
• Almost Had Me Convinced - early 90s demo, A One Way Ticket To My Life
• That Tone Of Voice - Diary Of A Mod Housewife 

Moving to Williamsburg, back when Brooklyn was...Brooklyn. A day job at Tudor City. The Shams make an album, and a video.

Songs in this episode:

• All I Want original demo - A One Way Ticket To My Life
• Farmer's Daughter - Shams rehearsal tape Dec. 1990
• Dressed To Kill - The Shams from Quilt, 1991

Adjusting to life post-October 1988. Harmonies and laughs with baby Hazel and the Shams; touring with the Indigo Girls, and an introduction to that sleepy backwater on the other side of the East River: Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Songs in this episode:

• Beauty Parlor Rag - the Shams, early demo
• If I Had The Sense - the Shams live at Saint Marks Poetry Project

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The last Last Roundup; birth of the Shams and life is a mother.

Songs in this episode:

• Grow Up Daddy - the Shams early demo
• Only A Dream - original demo - A One Way Ticket To My Life
• Only A Dream - the Shams, Quilt, 1991
• Little One - cassette demo 
• Little One - the Shams unreleased, 1989

Making tracks in...Springfield, Missouri. A visit from a true inspiration. And "good evening, um, Ruston!"? Last Roundup on record and on tour.

Songs in this episode:
 
Just A Little Is Enough - Last Roundup, Twister
Rebel Girl, Rebel Girl - Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby, A Working Museum

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Saying "I do," and keeping on doing. Playing for some tough customers (my parents) and going solo at the long term temp job variety show.

Songs in this episode:

• Beer & Kisses - from Diary Of A Mod Housewife
• At The Well - from Last Roundup/Twister
• File Clerk Blues - live on WRLT, 1996 

Two girls, two guys, one upright bass, lap steel, three acoustic guitars, banjo, fiddle and a washboard in NYC and Nashville: getting good takes time. And love is a country compilation cassette.

Songs in this episode:

• Playin' the Fool - Last Roundup, Twister
• A Little Is Enough - recorded for this episode

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