Cindy Lee Berryhill community's Journal

bibliofile @ 12:28am: Songs of Protest #3, this Saturday (in L.A.)
( Click to see the cool poster )

Email from Cindy Lee Berryhill, 7/30/2007:

This Saturday is the third SONGS OF PROTEST: An evening with the songwriters featured at Neil Youngs Living With War Website. Neil Young and his folks have been very supportive of these shows and you can see our poster up at his website [Note: Site plays music].

When: This Saturday...August 4th

Where: LARGO 432 North Fairfax, Los Angeles (across from the very delicious Canters Deli)

Time: 8PM

Who's Playing: I Am!, and the wonderful Victoria Williams, Tim Easton, The Truckee Brothers, Joel Rafael, Rev. Madison Shockley and who knows who else will come out that night...

Price: $20.00 Half of proceeds will go to Fisher House Palo Alto, an organization helping soldiers(and their families) returning from Iraq and Afganistan with brain injuries.

Reservations: If you want to sit at a table you'll need them. I'd call asap as the show has sold out early in the past.....(323) 852-1073 If they don't call back right away leave another message they will eventually call you.

If you don't want to eat at Largo...no worries they'll be room for you at the bar!!

See you all there on Saturday!

cindyleebee @ 7:49pm: Dizzys Downtown SAT. Jan 14th hosted by Air America
Hey friends folks and foe,

I will doing a special show at Dizzys (around 7th and K st. in downtown San Diego) on SATURDAY January 14th 8PM.

I will be with band and doing all the recent hits like When Did Jesus BEcome A Republican, Bombing of Baghdad and Forty Cent RAise....

This show is being sponsored and supported by our local Air America talk show , The Stacey Taylor Show, on KLSD AM1360. There will also be a table in support of Francine Busby's campaign for Congress.

Hope you guys can all come on out and support the CLB cause. See ya soon!

keitherino @ 11:00am: Outta-site
Dear Favorite Messiah,

The new website is outta-site! I love the Mary artwork.
Hearing the brand new song WHEN DID JESUS (Become a Republican)? is appropriate on this special election day. It makes me think of the Tom Waits song CHOCOLATE JESUS from his Mule Variations. I Look forward to catching a live show sometime soon.

Keep on preachin' the muse.

Your disciple,

Keitherino

cindyleebee @ 10:36pm: New CLB site: www.cindyleeberryhill.com and hear me on Air America
Check out the beginnings of my site and hear the new sounds. I'll be on Air America 1360 in San Diego 8AM Friday Oct. 21, 2005!!

cindyleebee @ 12:47am: CLB and the Wigbillies at Lestats Thursday Nov. 10th 2005
Show time: 10PM sharp
Where: Lestats on Adams Ave. in San Diego
Date: Thursday Nov 10th, 2005

We will play a 45 minute show. We had a terrific time at Lestats when last we were there, during the Adams Ave. Street Fair. This is a pretty nifty venue.

HOpe's to see ya all there.

Good nite youve got a lovely face, c

cindyleebee @ 11:46pm: CLB and Wigbillies at Dizzy's in SD Thursday August 4th (its true)
Yes, It's true Ive come out of retirement, of a sort, and I'm actually playing a show!! In fact Ive got a few coming up soon. The first of the batch will be at:

Aug 4th Thursday
Dizzys Downtown in SD
8PM(the whole nite is OURS FOR THE TAKING!!..BWAH-hah-hah)
$10.00
344 Seventh Ave. (between J+K)
All Ages
closest parking is at 6th and K St $3.00 for the night

Then:

Saturday Sept. 17th
Twiggs on Adams Ave.
in San Diego's University Heights district

Plus:

Sept. 24/25
Adams Ave. Street Fair
either Sat or Sun. check the listings in the paper

Maybe:

a special performing treat I'll announce when
it is confirmed....

Meanwhile back at the ranch:

Ive been recording again. At some point in the not so distant future you will be hearing such hits as: When Did Jesus Become A Republican, Cry Me a Jordan, Make Way For The Handicapped, Hugs and Kisses and so on.

Lots of good new songs, me thinks. For those of you that have not heard me in a while you will be surprised to hear a decidedly county/old time twist to my songwriting and band sound. I like to call the style; Twisted Roots. Paul Williams calls it "anti-country" and that works too. I hope some of you in cyber reading range pick me up on your radar and can make it out for the shows. I've always believed it takes two to make a party and an artist without a few warm blooded revellers is like a one hand clapping riddle. Good for yogi-cave koanic-meditation, not fun for a rave-up. I look forward to hanging out and meeting afterwards.

cindyleebee @ 9:19pm: CLB at Amnesty Int show this Sunday Feb. 20th
I'll be playing at the annual Amnesty International show this Sunday at the Olde Sod on Adams Ave. and (approx.)34th St. in San Diego. Don't know what time yet....

cindyleebee @ 11:30pm: Happy Val Day!

A few days ago I heard on NPRadio that the well known jazz and blues organist, Jimmy Smith passed away. He was pretty old maybe 80. Well Ive got a good JS story:

Back in 1988, after I'd toured most of the year already for my first album and before I moved to NYC I hooked up with a big time touring company/booking agent and we in my group were all pretty psyched about it. They'd given us some dates opening for Billy Bragg in the Pac No West which was very cool and I think we had a day or two off and they filled it in with a date opening for Jimmy Smith. I didn't know anything about him, but the show was in Davis, CA only it wasnt on the campus it was in a cabbage field. It was in an old barn with haybales for seats and some how they had electricity out there. We did two shows. The first one went okay but I had a hunch we were playing for a wrong crowd when a guy gave me a picture of Jesus and said " I think you're gonna need this". Jimmy Smith was great, of course. During the second song of the second show, which was 'Baby should I have The Baby', JS's big ol wife jumped up on stage and with all the black bluster she had in her said,"You all can finish now, Jimmy's ready to go on." She went on like that for a minute or so and I my drummer, Fluffy and bassist Waygone looked at each other and I asked them "what do you think?" Waygone Rex thought we should leave the stage and I said okay and we did. Right there in the middle of the 2nd or 3rd song. No big hook or boos or anything. It was eerie and weird. I don't think Ms. Smith liked that particular song but I also think that JImmy was getting up there in years and needed to go to bed before the sun went down.

Have a lovely Valentines Day!!

bobcolby @ 5:19pm: Segue stories?
As you've either experienced or (certainly) read about by now, one of the neatest features in iTunes (the desktop software that feeds the iPod) is "shuffle", where your music library is fed to you in random order, resulting in your own private radio station.

Of course, you never know in advance how well things are going to fit together, but I've heard sets come out of this thing that would have had me calling a radio station to compliment the DJ, if there had been one. One of these was this morning (I have my desktop version of iTunes set up as a musical alarm clock), when CLB's "Every Someone Tonight" was played in between Richard Barone's "Tangled In Your Web", and the version of "Cabin Essence" from the new "Smile". Now that was a good set!

Anyone have similar (or extremely dissimilar) stories to share?

bobcolby @ 11:49pm: Notes for the new (or non) LiveJournalist, part 1
If this thing works out, most of the people reading this will be new to LiveJournal, so as time allows (I'm working six days and one evening a week for the next few months) I'll be posting these little notes to help you get the most out of this particular community, as well as the larger LJ universe beyond. (The following expands somewhat on the info given in the "Welcome" thread below, which was a bit incomplete).

The most important thing you need to know is that full participation in this little endeavor requires two things (the second is pretty short, 'tho). In order to add comments to existing threads, you need to go to livejournal.com to get a free LiveJournal account. To post original threads, you need to take the next step and join this particular community. To do so, log into your LJ account, then click the "info" link (left-hand menu bar of this page) which gets you to our "community info" page, where there is a sign-up link in the first line (I think the link will take you to a page where you'll be asked to click on a "join community" button).

There are communities for every interest on LJ. If you go to my user info page and scroll down to the "member of" section, you'll get a sampling of what's available (I started the "burmafan" group as well). You can join them the same way you joined this one.

The easiest way to post to "berryhill_talk" (once you're fully joined up and logged into your LJ account) is to to click on the "pencil" icon on the "berryhill_talk" Community Info page referenced above, or you could go here and select "berryhill_talk" from the pulldown menu at the bottom of the page.

Feel free to ask any questions!

scythrop @ 11:18am: Allow me to humbly submit a suggested icon for use as a default "user pic" in this community, should the moderator wish to use it...



I'll try to make more later. If anyone has a photo in mind for such, or other ideas, feel free to comment with a URL or e-mail me a JPEG.

bobcolby @ 7:44pm: Opinions on "Smile"?
I posted this at the old place, but it might have been missed in the glut of spam.

Since lots of Cindy lee fans are Brian Wilson fans, too (including Cindy and Paul), I'm curious as to how people feel about the "completed" Smile. I know that Paul has said that "Heroes and Villians" is his favorite song, and I'd be especially curious to know what he thinks of the current version.

bobcolby @ 3:39pm: Introductions
A good place to start would be to say how you discovered Cindy Lee and her music. Click "comment" to do so!

bobcolby @ 3:20pm: Welcome!
Hi, Bob Colby here. I decided to start this LiveJournal community in response to the spam problem on the existing CLB discussion page. I suspect that problem has driven away much of the original readership, so it may take a while for people to discover this group. For those of you who have found this, I'd ask just a few things:

1) Join! if you haven't joined LiveJournal yet, know that it's free (you can get a paid account with more features, but everything you need to contribute here can be done with a free account), and that you can do a lot of neat things with it. Go here to start (you create an account by clicking the "create your own journal" link in the "Want to learn more?" section). Once you're a LiveJournalist, you can join this community by clicking the "info" link at the left of this page and then the appropriate link at the top of the "info" page.

2) Contribute. If you have questions about how to use your new LiveJournal account to post to this community journal (responding to an existing thread is pretty intuitive, but using the update function to post new threads is a bit less so), there's an extensive FAQ under the Help menu at the livejournal site. It will take some time for the audience to arrive, so it's important that there be things to read and respond to. For that reason, I'd like the discussion to include other music we like (it's fascinating to see what kind of basic aesthetic CLB fans have in common), as well as anything else you think this particular community might find interesting.

3) Let anyone who you think would be interested in this know about it.

Thanks!