Greetings Tweets -

One of Patty Lott's friends and music partners from the 1970s Evergreen
College days, Mark Vestrich, has sent me three MP3s of some of Patty's
singing from that era.

Mark writes, handily including the requisite reference to birds for
Tweeters, as follows...

I've attached 3 tracks with Patty singing on them from the "old days".
Two are duets with me accompanying on guitar. Curiously, both lyrics
include references to birds. These were recorded in March 1974.

The third is the entire band, The Old Coast Highway Orchestra and Tatoo
Parlor, recorded about a year later, sometime in Spring 1975. This was
one of Patty's feature numbers where she sang the lead.

You're welcome to post these on Tweeters.

A major reason she quit the band a few months later was that the smoke
from playing in bars & clubs was hurting her opera voice. These
recordings are restrained, her voice was huge.

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The three songs (Lazy River, Charleston, and Birth of the Blues) run a
minute or two each, but still total 2Mb. That's too large to post to
Tweeters, and would not be appropriate anyway. If any of you would like
copies of these MP3 files, please send an email to me directly. I'll
wait a few days and bundle all the requests into a single reply email
to y'all.

Doug

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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Wash
dcanning at zhonka.net
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