Cafe Veritas: Tracy Grammer
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CD251 - Press Kit
Red House Records is pleased to announce the February 14, 2012 release of Little Blue Egg, a collection of eleven intimate, long-lost recordings by Tracy Grammer and the late great Dave Carter.
Recorded in their home studios between 1997 and 2002, the album offers a glimpse into the duo’s musical process. Fully fleshed-out folk and Americana songs left off of other albums find a home alongside intimate, late-night living room recordings, reference tracks for multi-artist collaborations and rare demos produced for Joan Baez’s consideration. A fan of Dave & Tracy’s music, Baez has performed several of Carter’s songs along with such artists as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Chris Smither and Lucy Kaplansky.
Grammer discovered the tracks for Little Blue Egg during an emergency archiving project in the summer of 2010, a full eight years after Carter’s death. Rescuing the original ADAT tapes from a moldy basement where they were stored, she happily discovered that the tapes were in pristine condition. As she digitized the tapes in real-time, Tracy pored over old studio notes about the recordings.