Description
Musicians contributing to Elise’s VALISE include Moira Smiley & VOCO, John McCutcheon, The Rosin Sisters (Barbara Panter, Ann Whitley, Jan Smith) , Sol y Canto musicians Rosi & Brian Amador, Mick Kinney, Kinah Boto, Mike Haid, Neal Starkey, Bill Burke, Ken Gregory, Frank Hamilton, Don Erdman, Jonny Hibbert, the Hotlanta Horns, Susan Ottzen, Phyllis Free, Joyce & Jacque, Deidre McCalla, Virginia Schenck, Craig Rafuse, slam poet Theresa Davis, Rising Appalachia sister Leah Smith, Cis Hinkle.
Songs on the CD contributed by other writers include the dreamy Singing in My Sleep (composed for Elise by Atlanta harpist Susan Ottzen), Jackie (a brief history of Bebop by Lambert, Hendrix & Ross), Maria Elena Walsh’s Como La Cigarra (Like the Cicada – an Argentine anthem to the power of music for survival), Marlene Dietrich’s I Still Have a Suitcase in Berlin, and a couple of wonderful duets with the inimitable Mick Kinney.