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Put your hands on the remote! browse music »It's A Living . . . by Beth Scalet
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fave it Modern Country | Folk Pop
10 tracks | 38 minutes
Released May 2001
on j-bird records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:46 Another Love Song lyrics BUY MP3 03:46 Another Love Song lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:46 Another Love Song
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:29 Missing You lyrics BUY MP3 05:29 Missing You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:29 Missing You
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:57 Does It Always Come Down lyrics BUY MP3 03:57 Does It Always Come Down lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:57 Does It Always Come Down
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:24 Lose Your Money lyrics FREE 02:24 Lose Your Money lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:24 Lose Your Money
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:40 (Don't Want to Live in) California lyrics BUY MP3 03:40 (Don't Want to Live in) California lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:40 (Don't Want to Live in) California
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:43 Dance to Your Blues lyrics BUY MP3 03:43 Dance to Your Blues lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:43 Dance to Your Blues
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:35 (Have You Seen) Phillipa lyrics BUY MP3 04:35 (Have You Seen) Phillipa lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:35 (Have You Seen) Phillipa
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:44 Get Me Out of Love lyrics BUY MP3 02:44 Get Me Out of Love lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:44 Get Me Out of Love
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:59 In the Daylight lyrics BUY MP3 03:59 In the Daylight lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:59 In the Daylight
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:16 A Whiter Shade of Pale lyrics BUY MP3 04:16 A Whiter Shade of Pale lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:16 A Whiter Shade of Pale
Scalet's grit and velvet voice fits her folky/bluesy original material like your favorite pair of jeans. Her version of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" is worth the cost of the CD, but you'll fall in love with her original songs too.
Bio / Background
This outing, originally released on vinyl in 1981, was a forerunner in the do-it-yourself indie movement. The polished backing (including full band) and high-quality studio recording certainly don't sound "low budget," though, and guest artists feature some of the finest players on the Kansas City scene. Beth's original songs include the award-winning "Dance to Your Blues," the haunting "(Have You Seen) Phillipa," and the rocking "Lose Your Money." Her version of the classic "Whiter Shade of Pale," with its spidery acoustic guitar motif, is spectacular. As one listener said, "I never really understood this song before I heard Beth do it."
Beth has been making solid independent recordings for a lot of years now, and this is where it started.
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↓ more ↓I'm currently on my third time through my spanking new copy of your "It's a Living" CD - I LOVE a LOT of these songs - THIS time through, my favorites are "California", "Does It Always Come Down", and "Dance To Your Blues", but the last time through I could have sworn they were "Does It Always Come Down", "In The Daylight" and "Phillipa"....and the first time through I was hit with "Another Love Song"....this bodes well...
....I love listening to you and Kathy and Caren sing together and the way "Missing You" immerses me in the smoky bar/end of the evening feel we might be pretty dang familiar with('(missing) something I never had' - good lines throughout)...
And I haven't even GOTTEN to mentioning your wonderful treatment of "Whiter (Shade of Pale)..."
Man, I REALLY like this "Does It Always Come Down" and "California"...and "In The Daylight".....and "Phillipa"...
----Craig Young
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