We are delighted to announce that our brand-new album, SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES, is available as of today, March 31. Official street date is April 21, but you can get it right now, without even putting on your shoes.
For a physical copy of the CD, with beautiful 24-page booklet designed by Jeff Hardy and including all the lyrics, order directly from PS Classics.
For digital download (complete with spiffy 12-page digital booklet), go to iTunes. (iTunes is the ONLY place to get the digital booklet.)
We also invite you to check out these feature articles about the album:
- the folks at Direct Current have us on their front page. We love this excellent site dedicated to “smart, grown-up music.”
- the lovely people at Playbill are keeping us in the news as well.
- New Jersey journalist William Westhoven blogs about us in the Daily Record.
Come join us to celebrate and get your copy of SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES in person, if you’re anywhere near Portsmouth (April 4), Princeton (April 7) or Palo Alto (April 10)! NYC CD release party will be at Birdland on May 18.
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YES!!! *Dancin’ in my deskchair*
Ordered mine first thing this morning… even before the website and e-mail alerts arrived. Can’t wait to hear it.
Sorry I couldn’t make it to your concert in Phoenixville… but, one of my friends from the Lansdowne Folk Club made it, and said it was great.
It’s good to see a little action on the Discussion Board again… especially another amazing review from Charles.
Hope to catch another one of your concerts sometime. Take care.
–Ed
Just bought a copy. Can’t wait to see you guys back in St. Louis in October!
yay! multicopies on the way. anyone who has the chance to catch the live version — GO!!!!!
we’re doing the happy dance (meg by proxy)
JimG
What a delightful album! I’ve downloaded it from iTMS, and it’s really enchanting.
I’ve posted an on-line review. I hope the album release brings you lots more fans, and the renown you deserve!
Peace. – Larry (Columbus OH)
To quote Steve Martin: wonderful, wonderful, most wonderful, and again, wonderful.
One question (maybe it’s really two): what happened to the late-Elvis “Wakeup Call For Love” (by Shannon in the show), and “Take It Back” (queen to bad fairy)? Not enough space? Didn’t like how they came out? At least one inquiring mind wants to know
Hey Jim – so glad you like the album! “Wake Up Call For Love” (which was actually sung by Kevin in LA, with his back slyly turned away from the audience so he could have eye contact with Troy who was signing…) has been cut from SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES – it just doesn’t have a place in our current version. However, we love the song and think it’s lots of fun, and are offering a free download of our home demo to everyone who signs up on our email list at our shows. If you are already ON the list and would like to hear the song, shoot me an email (val at groovelily) and I’ll send you the link!
“Take It Back” was also cut – our entire ending is different now, and the Queen sings a different song to Beauty, which is “Wheel Goes ‘Round (reprise)” – track 17 on the CD.
What an enjoyable album! Love it!
My review can be read here:
http://ellie-sparks.livejournal.com/1979.html#cutid1
I placed it opposite the Disney version for the sake of comparison.
A collection of Sleeping Beauty Wakes videos from the 4/7/2009 McCarter Theatre show are now on Vimeo. See below for details:
http://www.groovelily.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=9&post=5624#POST5624