Album Notes

"Ravishingly melodic!"
--Ani Difranco

"and nothing is ever as sad as it seems spinning round and around with the starbreasted comic book girl of your dreams..."
--from Down Easy

Noe Venable's artistry runs strong and deep. The daughter of a writer father and a reading teacher mother, Noe grew up in San Francisco. As a small child, she made up songs, strumming along on an autoharp-- usually tunes about witches dancing around cauldrons, or about Pan and his nymphs and other characters from Greek mythology. As a high school student, she obsessed over making paper maché mermaids. As a college student, she majored in playwriting and performance. Today, as a songwriter/composer and recording artist, with four records under her belt, Noe is unique in her artistry and comfortable in her uniqueness.

Down Easy captures a particularly fiery live performance of the Noe Venable Trio at Mo's Melody Mansion in San Francisco. Recorded in 2000, before Noe and her bandmates became obsessed with electronic gadgets, Down Easy is a wholly acoustic record. Noe plays guitar and sings, Todd Sickafoose plays bass, and Alan Lin plays violin.

Down Easy was featured in the 2002 film, Cherish, by Finn Taylor. There's a scene in the film where the main character goes into a record store to buy the record.:) The title track, Down Easy, is also featured on the soundtrack to the film, which was released by Newline Records.

Lyrics, music, ranting and more at http://www.noevenable.com

"She's the freshest voice in San Francisco."
--San Francisco Magazine

"Always provocative... Venable writes like Emily Dickinson on mushrooms."
--SF Reader

"She's sweet, sad, and slightly odd in refreshing, artful ways."
--Santa Barbara Independent

"Noe Venable spins them out like a pied piper who's already taken the kids and has come back for more."
--SF Weekly

"(Venable's voice) stuns and enraptures so thoroughly that multiple listenings are required to begin unraveling her mysteries of music and meaning..."
--SF Bay Guardian