The Waitress
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The Waitress is the second album by folk
singer-songwriter
Jonathan Byrd. The album was released in 2003, the same year that Byrd won the New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival
. The Waitress reached #20 on the Folk Radio Airplay Chart and has been noted for Byrd's lyrical character sketches and deftly played guitar.
Production:
Artwork:
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Jonathan Byrd. The album was released in 2003, the same year that Byrd won the New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival
Kerrville Folk Festival
The Kerrville Folk Festival is a music festival held for 18 consecutive days in the late spring/early summer at Quiet Valley Ranch near Kerrville, Texas. The event has run on a yearly basis since 1972. In November 2008, the Kerrville Folk Festival and Kerrville Wine & Music Festival were acquired...
. The Waitress reached #20 on the Folk Radio Airplay Chart and has been noted for Byrd's lyrical character sketches and deftly played guitar.
Track listing
- "The Waitress" (Brown, Byrd) - 3:35
- "The Ballad of Larry" (Byrd) - 5:01
- "Radio" (Byrd) - 6:09
- "The Snake Song" (Byrd) - 2:46
- "Down the Old Mountain Road" (Byrd) - 1:56 [instrumental]
- "My Generation" (Byrd) - 3:57
- "Small Town" (Byrd) - 3:12
- "Tape Full of Love Songs" (Byrd) - 3:17
- "StackaleeStagger Lee (song)"Stagger Lee", also known as "Stagolee", "Stackerlee", "Stack O'Lee", "Stack-a-Lee" and several other variants, is a popular folk song based on the murder of William "Billy" Lyons by Stagger Lee Shelton...
" (traditional) - 4:04 - "Home Sweet Home" (traditional) - 2:19 [instrumental]
- "Being With You" (Byrd) - 3:06
- "Fiddle and Bow" (traditional) - 3:34
- "Rosie" (Byrd) - 3:32
Personnel
Musicians:- Jonathan Byrd - guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
& vocals - Jason Cade - fiddleFiddleThe term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
- David DiGiuseppe - accordionAccordionThe accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
- Robbie Link - bassBass (instrument)Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...
& celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
Production:
- Jonathan Byrd - producer
- Jerry Brown - recording, mixing, mastering
- at The Rubber Room, Chapel Hill, North CarolinaChapel Hill, North CarolinaChapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care...
Artwork:
- Melanie Litchfield - photography
- F.J. Ventre - graphic design at Tadpole Designs
Charts
| date | chart | peak |
|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Folk Radio Airplay Chart | 20 |
External links
- The Waitress page at Waterbug RecordsWaterbug RecordsWaterbug Records is a small independent record label based in Glen Ellyn, Illinois specializing in singer-songwriters and traditional folk musicians who do original research. The label was founded as an artist cooperative label in 1992 by singer-songwriter Andrew Calhoun. Calhoun described the...