Cesca
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© 2004 Cesca Janece Waterfield (634479299919)
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Recorded the weekend of Johnny Cash's death. Produced by Cesca, Vince Burke of Beaten Back to Pure, and members of Crab Nebula.
All songs written by Cesca, the topical range is as follows:
Islington Road: Murder.
Welcome: Rage that seethes.
Speakeasy: Written about a bar in Ocean View, Norfolk, VA where the beer, thank goddess, flowed cold for over two years.
One: Loneliness and finally just accepting it; inspired by an Auden poem, "The More Loving One."
Premium Roots Rock sounds Like an 18-wheeler takin out guard rail with a messa bootleg whiskey in the back... Will make you feel good. Or at least a little thirsty.
Receives airplay throughout Virginia and nationally on college and public radio stations near you!
Cesca is the onlyest DIxIE Chan-TWANG!-teuse
red dirt, poontwang, profane thoughts, transistor radios, piggly wiggly, hawgs, hills, horseshoes, high and lonesome sounds, women with big hair + bigger voices
kudzu, profound thoughts, walkin after midnight, jook joints, honkytonks, memphis, tennessee, beale street a few decades ago, west memphis this minute
exene cervenka, kris kristofferson, johnny cash, ryan adams, insurgent country, insurgents
childhood, tall trees, wide fields, butterbeans, soybeans, rc cola, nilla wafers, spoonbread
abbeville, alabama, where i learned how to walk, and then run, mussel shoals, alabama, knowing WHAT mussel shoals was at age 4 and getting saved by it like bezillions of us, honoring it along with a few other Southern cities as having birthed this nation's biggest cultural contribution to the world: ITS POPULAR MUSIC born from THE BLUES
gunsmoke+miss kitty, mae west, pamela debarres, the plaster casters, beer, dive-hopping, dives, high heels and fishnets, zippos, dildos, dogwoods
women songwriters, janis joplin, aretha franklin, matreca berg, lucinda williams, who NEVER gave up, dolly goddess parton, loretta lynn, tammy wynette, mahalia jackson, wanda jackson, rosanne cash, the carter family, june carter cash, miss kitty wells, rickie lee jones, chryssie hynde, patsy cline, neko case, patty griffin, mindy smith, girls, chicks, wimmin
XY songwriters, willie nelson, lucero, kristofferson by gawd, the knitters, son house, woody guthrie, rodney crowell, porter wagoner, steve earle, john prine, hank sr, hank III, TOWNES VAN ZANDT, robert johnson, kevin welch, shawn mullins, my musician parents
defiling all that's sacred, making sacred of the profane, scary spirits, BOO!
biker boots and bikers, boiled peanuts, banana sandwiches, rage, lust, laughs, truckers, roadies
general sentimentality, specific sentimentality, melancholic-beer-swilling, wish-i could-die-songs
jukeboxes on tabletops, neon signs, shotgun shacks, fender telecasters, fender strats, six strings, thank you for them...
not glorifying redneck mentality, but instead talking about the south's painful and ugly history, it's there, admit it, go to the civil rights museum at the lorraine hotel today and LOOK
roadtrips away from my hometown and away from my perspective, re-evaluating my assumptions
bugs bunny and split wood fences, chicken coops, and sweet tea, pressure cookers and gardens, crickets, cicadas, the dust that covers your knuckles when you knock on the door of an old trailer whose white paint is oxidizing
snoozing safely with my daddy in the 1820 house he restored while it stormed outside and walnuts plopped on the galvanized steel roof, riding with my parents down long dirt roads so they could sit outside with very old black men + watch them make white oak baskets, then seeing my father pay fairly for them
porch swings and tree wings, dragonflies and grackles
vengeance, gun racks, knives, and visions of revenge
getting over it by popping a couple of longnecks + smiling till it sticks
I-Can't-Sit-Still-So-I-Might-As-Well-Rock + MY OWN FUCKING MANIA YOU WISH YOU HAD
and STILL the first word I ever spoke on this earth was "love"...
Some Press:
"Named for rootsy singer Cesca Waterfield, this band sounds like Patsy Cline meets Chuck Berry with a great singer."
the Compass, Weekend insert to the Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk
"I enjoyed listening to your music. What I hear are solid songs, a solid voice, and a band who knows when to play and when to leave spaces. All so much more than what I usually hear."
KEN St. JOHN, Twangdemonium.com, Texas
"Remember the name Cesca… poetically angry rock..."
The Rip Current, December 2003, Manteo, N.C.
"...quite stunning in terms of songwriting, passion and performance ... a number of rare gifts that captivate with voice and guitar alone. Beautiful and powerful material."
GEORGE MAIDA, WCVE 88.9, Richmond, VA
"Thank you for sending me [your music]. I love your style and writing and you have a great voice."
LANEY GOODMAN, host of nationally syndicated radio show Women in Music with Laney Goodman, Boston, MA
"...a dynamic singer songwriter."
The Coastland Times, North Carolina, January 15, 2004
"...Ninevolt has learned that Norfolk-based singer-songwriter has received a grant from ASCAP, American Society of Composers and Performers..."
Ninevolt, Virginia, July 20, 2004
"On Friday, Jan. 16, [Crab Nebula and Cesca Waterfield] hit the stage in the First Flight Middle School gymnasium at 9 a.m. for what one band member said was “the earliest any of us have ever played in our lives.”
The Coastland Times, North Carolina, February 1, 2004
"great original style... a real vocal talent."
Tracy Reynolds, CUPIT MUSIC, Nashville
"a special vocal talent and an impressive songwriter."
Eva Bonn, GATHER ROUND MUSIC, Huntington Beach, CA
"Your voice is FINE! Great control...good inflection... your range and pitch are on the money. You've got a good future in music."
DOC HEARL, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, session player, Nashville
"You have a great sound!"
SIMPLY GRAND MUSIC, Memphis, Tennessee