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| Zoe Mulford
Roadside Saints
ACCD 0604
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Contact
88 Jackson Crescent
Manchester M15 5AA
United Kingdom
zoe@monkeyfist.com
www.zoemulford.com
U.S. Booking:
Cheryl Prashker
130 E. Mount Airy Ave. #3A
Philadelphia, PA 19119
215-242-4995
cprashker@aol.com
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Zoe Mulford
Her new release on Azalea City Recordings is titled Roadside Saints.
The album is produced by John Jennings (Mary Chapin Carpenter, John Gorka)
and features Jennings on multiple instruments, as well as fiddler Rosie Shipley
(Lisa Moscatiello, Gerry O'Bierne), slide guitarist Pat Wictor, percussionist
Cheryl Prashker (Full Frontal Folk) and Toby Mulford on bass. Tracks include
Elegy, the story of a set of wineglasses passed down through
three generations, which received an Outstanding Achievement award from the
Great American Song Contest in 2004.
Nominated for Songwriter of the Year by the Washington Area Music Association,
Zoe has received many other recognitions in the past year. These include
first-place songwriting contest wins at the Susquehanna Music Festival and
AvalonFest 05. She was Gold Winner for Children's Music in the Mid-Atlantic
Song Contest and a finalist in the 06 Plowshares songwriter contest.
Her first fully produced album, Traveling Moon, is a favorite on WETA-FM's Traditions broadcast and has been played on other folk shows from Miami to Massachussetts.
Zoe is newly relocated to Manchester, England and counts Washington, DC,
Durham, NC, Boston, MA, and Swarthmore, PA among her former hometowns. She
has played at house concerts, coffeehouses, and folk venues including the
Washington Folk Festival, the Six String Cafe, and the Institute of Musical
Traditions.
She has shared the stage with local and touring performers including Tom
Paxton, Karen Mal, Jonathan Byrd, Joe Hickerson, Pat Wictor, Carla Ulbrich,
Nick Annis and Dan Hart.
In addition to music, Zoe loves farmers' markets, children's books, martial arts movies, and cooking with lots of garlic.
"Her lyrics are intelligent, thought-provoking, and so warm that they demand that you get to know this person better.”
- Bob Gramann, Fredericksburg Songwriters' Showcase
“Did I mention she's funny?”
- Steve Key, Singer, Songwriter, & Presenter
“I don't usually like folk music, but that underwear song is pretty good.”
—patron, Taliano's Restaurant, Takoma Park, MD
FINALIST, Plowshares Songwriting Contest, 2006
Nominated for SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR - Washington Area Music Association Awards 2005
GOLD WINNER, Children's Music, Mid-Atlantic Song Contest 2005
WINNER, Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival Songwriter Contest 2005
WINNER, AvalonFest Rising Star Contest 2005
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, Great American Song Contest 2004
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Track 6 4:37
Elegy (Crystal Glass)
© 2004 Zoe Mulford
Track 13 3:04
Gone Is Gone
© 2006 Zoe Mulford
Lyrics--click
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Elegy (Crystal Glass)
This crystal glass was given to my grandma on her wedding-day
It was one of twelve that were only used for guests
and it loves candle-light - it loves the morning sun
but it spent its days in darkness in a big oak chest
waiting for white linen and the silver and the wine -
On a table set for angels, it would shine
and she said,
Glasses may break if you use them every day
You must keep them safe - They're like hearts that way
Mostly you can get along with less
Wait for special times to use the best
This crystal glass was given to my mother as a legacy
It was one of ten from my grandmother's estate
and it loves candle-light - it loves the morning sun
but it spent years marked FRAGILE in a packing crate
'til my mother rediscovered it in nineteen eighty-nine
She held it to the light to see it shine
and she said,
Glasses may break if you use them every day
You can keep them safe - but what good are they
if they just stay shut up in some chest?
Why wait to use the very best?
So here's a toast to lovely things
Hear the crystal speak as it clicks against my rings
and see the facets shine
makes water taste like wine
Clink the glasses and they sing
This crystal glass was broken on a clumsy Monday morning
It was one of four that my mother gave to me
and it loved candle-light - it loved the morning sun
and I'm sad to see it go, but I still have three
so I will pour some orange juice and drink to precious things
Shake the broken pieces, and they sing
and they say
Glasses may break if you use them every day
That's the risk you take - they're like hearts that way
and every day will put them to the test
but every day deserves the very best
Gone is Gone
Train pulls out on a one-way track
Nothing you do's gonna bring it back
No use hanging on
Gone is gone
Time's gone by and my money's spent
Don't ask me where the hell it all went
I'll just move along
Gone is gone
I've always been a loser - never been a fighter
maybe I'm the poorer, maybe I'm just lighter
I ain't gonna bother hanging on your shoulder
just 'cause it's over and all I've got is older
I've said about all there is to say
Nothing I do's gonna make you stay
No use hanging on
Gone is gone
I've always been a loser - never been a fighter
maybe I'm the poorer, maybe I'm just lighter
I ain't gonna bother hanging on your shoulder
just 'cause it's over and all I've got is older
Train pulls out on a one-way track
Nothing you do's gonna bring it back
No use hanging on
Gone is gone
Gone is gone is gone is gone is gone
Gone is gone
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