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17 tracks | 63 minutes
Released Nov 2005
on Beth Elliott
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:04 Friday Midnight Again lyrics BUY MP3 04:04 Friday Midnight Again lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:04 Friday Midnight Again
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:03 When I Was Younger lyrics BUY MP3 03:03 When I Was Younger lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:03 When I Was Younger
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:39 Ballad of the Oklahoma Women's Liberation Front lyrics BUY MP3 02:39 Ballad of the Oklahoma Women's Liberation Front lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:39 Ballad of the Oklahoma Women's Liberation Front
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:05 For the Last Time lyrics BUY MP3 05:05 For the Last Time lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:05 For the Last Time
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:53 Reflections lyrics BUY MP3 04:53 Reflections lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:53 Reflections
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:33 Good Time lyrics BUY MP3 03:33 Good Time lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:33 Good Time
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:50 Lady on the Subway lyrics BUY MP3 02:50 Lady on the Subway lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:50 Lady on the Subway
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:46 Time and Emptiness lyrics BUY MP3 04:46 Time and Emptiness lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:46 Time and Emptiness
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:31 Pack My Things and Go lyrics BUY MP3 05:31 Pack My Things and Go lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:31 Pack My Things and Go
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:15 Stealin' lyrics BUY MP3 02:15 Stealin' lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:15 Stealin'
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:22 Doughnuts (in the Levi's Account Group) lyrics BUY MP3 02:22 Doughnuts (in the Levi's Account Group) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:22 Doughnuts (in the Levi's Account Group)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:42 D.E.S. lyrics BUY MP3 02:42 D.E.S. lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:42 D.E.S.
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:22 Teen Love lyrics BUY MP3 03:22 Teen Love lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:22 Teen Love
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:45 Rubyfruit Jungle lyrics BUY MP3 02:45 Rubyfruit Jungle lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:45 Rubyfruit Jungle
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:12 Cars in the Driveway lyrics BUY MP3 04:12 Cars in the Driveway lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:12 Cars in the Driveway
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:59 Softball and Rockabilly Hiccups lyrics BUY MP3 04:59 Softball and Rockabilly Hiccups lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:59 Softball and Rockabilly Hiccups
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:03 Barbara Lynne lyrics BUY MP3 04:03 Barbara Lynne lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:03 Barbara Lynne
If Melissa Etheridge had a hippie big sister who hung out with Lucinda Williams, that would be Beth Elliott.
Bio / Background
Before "women's music" was a genre, before Olivia Records came to be, there were lesbian hippies. Like all hippies, some of them brought guitars to coffeehouses and sang original songs. One of these lesbian hippies was a young San Francisco Bay Area native named Beth Elliott, who while still a teenager had penned a doo-wop lesbian love ballad. "Teen Love," and a women's liberation answer to the "Stand By Your Man" genre called "The Ballad of the Oklahoma Women's Liberation Front." These turned into lesbian activist favorites in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Running afoul of the emerging radical dyke feminist political correctness police, Beth found herself blacklisted as a writer and musician for a solid decade. Trying to find her way outside the community, Beth took part in the Haight-Ashbury revival of the mid-1970s, gaining neighborhood popularity at coffeehouses and street fairs, and even being heard live on the famous underground FM radio station KSAN.
↓ more ↓She produced an album, "Kid, Have You Rehabilitated Yourself?," at Oliver DiCicco's Möbius Music in San Francisco's Noe Valley, but women's music distribution channels were closed to the "Okie Womens'/Reflections" single.
Having let loose her inner bass player in the Möbius sessions, she played that instrument in the early 1980s for the all-woman new wave band Satin Food Stamps. In the mid-1990s, she joined those "dykeabilly darlin's" the Bucktooth Varmints, playing bass and harmonizing, and then playing six instruments on the prerecorded backing tracks for Annie Toone and Leigh "Elvis Herselvis" Crowe's drag king musical, "Hillbillies on the Moon."
Beth also went back to writing, still raising hell with whatever new PC police came along. For three and a half years in the mid-1990s, she was a columnist for the weekly San Francisco Bay Area Reporter. In 2003, ENC Press (http://www.encpress.com) published her satirical lesbian time-travel novel, Don't Call It "Virtual".
Working with Webby Award winner Sandi Woodruff on the Hit Comedy streaming audio web site, Beth took on assistant producer tasks in a session in which Woodruff and Top 40 legend Chuck Blore redid Blore's classic WCFL/Radio KYA jingles with Internet-relevant lyrics. And now, with the help of an assortment of Beth's cool and creative friends, some "buried treasure"-Beth and her music-can be heard on a stereo near you.
"Buried Treasure" contains the "Kid, Have You Rehabilitated Yourself?" album tracks, live and studio Satin Food Stamps tracks, and a pair of brand new recordings on which Beth is backed by a who's who of the Pacifica, California music scene.
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