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Everyone is Equal at the
Laundromat Many of the songs I write are character ballads. What interests me is the human moment - creating a song that is like a painting or photo of a moment in time for a real person, or a fictional person realistically human, with all of the awareness, confusion, hopes, and fears that a person can bring to a critical moment. I hope you enjoy my ballad of Susanna Dickinson, a character from Texas history. Susanna and her eighteen-month-old daughter Angelina survived the siege of the Alamo in 1836; General Santa Anna asked her to tell her story to him, then he gave her safe passage to where General Sam Houston was encamped in Gonzales. My story picks up there. The Ballad of Susanna Dickinson "Ghost Light" is a song I composed around a poem by Dallas poet T. Daniel Sheppeard. He explained to me that the ghost light is the last light left burning in a theater, illuminating the stage, and that actors, out of respect, do not pass through it. Here's a song for Christmas. Thanks to Steve Leach and Johnny Foster (co-producers), Jim Wagner (bass), and John Stutler (clarinet) for making it sound so great. The recording took place at Foster Recording of Dallas in 2005.
My Own Christmas Tree All of my songs enjoy copyright protection, but for you, right now, they are Free Dallas Music. Peaceful journeys to you, Jenni Mansfield Peal Get your own copy of Jenni's latest collection of original songs: Flood. Click on the scrolling marquee. |
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Some of the
songs I write may be called urban folk. Pick a format to listen to "Everyone is Equal at the Laundromat,"
some post-phosphate philosophy.