It was a good experience, and Sam and I have played together in a few times in different cities since then. What messages come forth in your music? Simple phrases that keep me on track in daily life, with color and story around the edges.
Lastly, what feelings have you taken from putting yourself out there and showcasing your talent that you might not have expected before you were able to go out and do so? D: My feeling of being at home in being human has grown. At first when I began making songs I was only concerned with self-expression. What is your relationship with the Providence art scene and more specifically AS? Boarding school, college, traveling — through it all we keep coming back to Providence — we love the art and music scene here.
Willa had booked music and art shows in college and then at Machines with Magnets for a few years. To us, AS has alway been such a wonderfully open and hospitable venue for performers and listeners alike. How has your experience of being raised on the small organic farm of Blessingway in Rehoboth, MA become a part of your performance and your personality? VNS: We grew up in a really open, holistic environment- Lots of jam sessions in the back yard, a practice space in the garage, and someone always singing in the house or at the kitchen table.
The stereo was always turned up in the living room or upstairs in each of our bedrooms. Our parents threw a lot of big summer parties with live bands and there would be beautiful fresh food and often a giant pig roast. We would like to think that these parties kind of taught us the basics of entertaining and hospitality: throw a big party, have something wonderful to offer your guests and share a special moment.
We consider ourselves country girls that grew up a stones throw from Providence and an hour from Boston. Just close enough to the city but just far enough away to be raised in the woods with lots of barn cats and salamander hunts.
She had been living on 6th Street between Avenues C and D, walking past the cafe for nearly two years before stepping inside in early It was by immersing herself in the anti-folk scene at the Sidewalk Cafe that Cluck discovered many exciting and unschooled approaches to singing, playing, and writing, and an environment which valued honesty of expression over polish and chops. Over time, Cluck would pioneer her own form of folk music grounded in the idea of music as communication with spirit; she calls it intuitive folk.
The process of becoming a songwriter was a spiritual revolution for Cluck, both healing and powerful. From to , Cluck recorded five albums—four of them with just a condenser mic, a couple of instrument mics, and a little Korg D8—while living in a sparsely furnished industrial loft in Williamsburg with wooden floors, brick walls, and a metal ceiling.
Her early recordings contain natural reverb and ambient background effects: the rush of trains and trucks passing by outside, the noisy clicking of her hard drive, the sound of a phone ringing and being picked up. They also featured the experimental use of various instruments including accordion, recorder, chord organ, harmonium, violin, piano, toy zither, and a handmade copper pipe xylophone-like instrument. Supporting herself as a waitress, Cluck managed to pay off her student loans and scale back her work hours to the minimum necessary to afford rent, leaving plenty of time for art and music.
In late , Cluck married another songwriter who was employed as a cab driver, and they alternated days off to allow each of them ample space home alone to record and practice. Cluck says having a stable home and work situation was crucial to her development as a songwriter. For the last decade, Cluck has been focused on setting up the support structures she needs to continue growing and serving as a musician. A lack of viable space for both practicing and recording in NYC led her to move to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she has a free-standing house in which she can practice and record.
In , Cluck launched a fundraising campaign in order to make her most recent studio album, pay her musical collaborators, and press the records herself. She has developed a whole roster of novel approaches to her artistic career: leading in-person singing and songwriting workshops; teaching lessons; selling original art including illustrated lyric sheets to her songs ; and even giving fans the option to host a living room concert or to have a song composed on the subject of their choice.
During the COVID pandemic, she has been teaching online workshops and improving her home to make it a welcoming place for traveling musicians once touring is possible again.
By summer of , Cluck wanted to start recording. Her sound engineer friend Ken Heitmueller, helped her shop for gear. Originally intended as a demo to share with friends and local clubs, many of the songs on diane cluck have been fan favorites for decades. Her entirely singular style of singing, playing, and storytelling is already on full display in these early recordings. Exposure to these experimental and poetic songwriters led Cluck to want to focus on more literary lyrical composition.
The crunched-out, overblown sound in this recording conveys those raw feelings. This aspect of Ayurveda spoke deeply to me. Real Good Time. Bones and Born Again. Love Me If Ye Do. Nothing but God. Countless Times. Beatless Wonder.
Leave Me Alone. God Made It Rain. Hover Not. Macy's Day Bird. Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony. Pathway to Eden. My Teacher Died. Pray Headaches Away. Impatient Sun. I liked you as soon as I saw you. Crash Through the Half-Light.
Parlor Trick. Battlefield Nurse. Modern Day. How Long? Casting About. Monte Carlo. Yatzee Dice. If You See Sunlight. The Party Tonight. My Virtue's Gone Hooray Hooray. Mystery Over Mind. Just as I Should Be. Focus on Their Eyes. Content to Reform. Hemmed In. Wasn't I Glad! This Is Our Love. Maybe a Bird. I'm Yr Here-I-Am. The Way You Were.
Draw Me Out. Why Feel Alone? Not afraid to be kind. Travel Light. Touch Deprivation. You Are Like Elvis. Beat From Every Corner. Love Me If You Do. The River. I'm Your Here I Am. Psu vs. Louisiana Tech 67 to 7, 9. Your Million Sweetness. My Virtue's Gone Hooray, Hooray. Hold Together. Sandy Ee.
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