Hungry Lucy

Tea with Hungry Lucy, Episode 113 ends with a performance of “Shine” (originally from the album, “To Kill a King“). This version is just electric piano, hammered dulcimer and Christa’s delicious vocals. Rather un-electronic for Hungry Lucy. Before the performance, though Christa goes on a rant about a newly opened local “restaurant” that the pair visited on their Sunday of attempted creativity boosting. War-N and Christa take a personal trip down memory lane and tell us about the apartment from hell in which they used to live. in the “other people’s music” segment, War-N talks about trip-hop pioneer’s Portishead and their very challenging, but rather clever new album “Third“. CB & War-N also talk about MP3 vs. CD vs. vinyl.

Do you still buy vinyl, or is it ancient history?

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Portishead - Machine Gun (Live on Jools Holland)

Just a quick note to let fellow podcasters know that you can now get EVERY Hungry Lucy song via the Podsafe Music Network (AKA Podshow/Mevio). We’ve always stated that we’re totally cool with podcasters playing ANY of our songs. After all, you’re helping to tell the world about us! Until now, though, there hasn’t been an easy way to actually acquire these tracks.

So, head on over to the Podsafe Music Network and grab our music for your podcast. We have 65 tracks up there to choose from. Everything from ambient/downtempo to dark-and-gothy to bumpy-bumpy club mixes. If you do play our music on your podcast, please let us know. Then we can tell the world about your fab podcast as well. It’ll also make us feel all special and tingley.

In this week’s Tea with Hungry Lucy War-N & Christa share a preview of a new song (working title: Pajamas), likely title “The Best Day of Her Life”. We get to hear the original noisy piano recording, and the newly arranged music. Christa talks about her bad week, that ends with a nice family time on Saturday. Christa also talks about her preference for listening to music she can sing along with. War-N does the opposite, but did enjoy Christa’s effort in singing along with “Golden Boy” by Severed Heads … frightening!

So, tell us…suggestions for the next live podcast performance?

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Severed Heads - “We Have Come to Bless This House” (1985)

This week’s Tea with Hungry Lucy is high on the insanity meter! A mix of emotions this week as Christa and War-N talk about the therapeutic benefits of making music as well as the confidence struggles it can sometimes bring to the surface. For the OPM segment this week, Christa chats about Michael Jackson’s “She’s Out of My Life” that she received via lala.com. War-N talks about the film “August Rush” that he found high on the sap factor, but was still in tears by movie’s end. Christa rounded out the episode with some Veggie Ragu talk which made us all hungry and brought the podcast to a hasty end.

So, tell us…anything you’d like to add, edit or delete from the podcast?

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Michael Jackson - “She’s Out of My Life”

August Rush

Queen of new media and talented vocalist of Lovespirals, Anji Bee, has featured Hungry Lucy (and our video for Harvest) on her latest Chillcast video. Watch below or visit Anji’s site for much more. In addition to the video podcast, Anji produces the very popular weekly Chillcast audio podcast as well as her band podcast, Chillin’ with Lovespirals, along with her partner in blissful music Ryan Lum.

Tons more at anjibee.com. A huge thanks to Anji!

A Hungry Lucy video podcast about the Hungry Lucy audio podcast…with discussion about live video. Odd, yet strangely engaging(?)

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This week’s podcast includes a super-fab-and-groovy live performance of “To Kill a King“. Before that, though, War-N and Christa chat about organic and locally produced food, a new video podcast episode, War-N’s blogging madness, wonderful audio players all over hungrylucy.com and Sir Digby Chicken Caesar. Does it get any better? … probably.

So, what’s on YOUR mind? Thoughts, concerns, ramblings??

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Also mentioned: AmieStreet.com (Hungry Lucy’s page)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Time to return to my ongoing musings (or endless rant, depending on your viewpoint) on what I’ll call “music freedom“.

I came across a wonderful article by Andrew Dubber (via Derek Sivers) entitled “Should I Be Worried About Piracy?“. Andrew thoughtfully and eloquently explained the point I’ve been trying to make for some while.

Instead of battling hard against this new consumer power to copy and share music…why not embrace it?

Hungry Lucy has been doing so now for about 1 year. Aside from my peace of mind (in which I place great value) we have seen greater interest in our music and, yes, a gradual but steady increase in paid (yes paid) downloads. Granted, I have no evidence as to what has caused this. I quite firmly believe, though, that our “please copy & share” attitude is at least partially to blame. Only time will tell. In the meantime, I don’t worry about all those lost sales anymore, and that…is priceless.