Tracy Newman and the Reinforcements:
Tracy Newman, Lorie Doswell, and Gene Lippmann.
Influences
Merle Haggard, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Mark Knopfler, Joni Mitchell, Paul McCartney, Boz Scaggs, Dan Hicks, Harriet Schock, help, stop me! I'm really leaving a lot of people out. If I had to choose one, today it would be Merle Haggard. I love the way he's recorded. I love his voice. I love the simplicity of his writing.
Willie Nelson, too. I've been thinking about that he wrote "Crazy," but didnt become a universally popular singing artist until he did "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain," which he didn't write. It was written by Fred Rose. (This is) an interesting example to all of us songwriters who tend to only do our own material.
Sounds Like
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Song Credits: All songs on the stand-alone player, above, are written and performed by Tracy Newman, except for "Oh, No, Not Again" which is written by Tracy Newman and performed by Anna Montgomery.
See Tracys' Blog Entry with the Music Connection Magazine photo and short article about BEAUTIFUL.
See This Blog Entry from Tracy to find out details about The Caltech Folk Music Societys' show on 22 September 2007 featuring Women On The Move's performance to promote BEAUTIFUL.
Those of you who have my CD (A Place in the Sun") or have seen my live shows, know my song "Laraine," but others of you out there may not. My sister is Laraine Newman from the original "Saturday Night Live" - Not Ready For Prime Time Players. (The women were Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman. The men were Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd and Garret Morris.)
My song talks a little about those days, and then you get a glimpse of Laraine's life these days. It's pretty nice, and you might want to check it out.
The cool place to hear it right now is on an amazing site I've joined -- www.myrecordlabel.net. I highly recommend this new place to be heard and seen. Their video quality is astonishing compared to other places, and it seems to get better each day. See for yourself - check out my video of "Laraine" right above this blurb!
-Tracy
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"Like any songwriter, Tracy Newman writes from her own experience. But her imagination is also fired by her musings about the lives of others. Her first song, for example, written around age 13, was called 'Betcha Have a Ball'. It was inspired by a girls' name and number she saw sprawled on a bathroom wall. And a recent composition, 'Diane Wants a Man', is about a woman she saw on TV who's addicted to plastic surgery. You would think with such keen powers of observation, Tracy's creative energy would spill over to other media as well, and indeed it does. For the past 15 years or so, she's worked very successfully in the television industry, as a writer and sitcom creator. She's written for Cheers, Ellen (for which she won the Emmy and a Peabody Award -- for co-writing Ellen's 'Coming Out' episode), and According to Jim, which she co-created in 2001 and is still going strong. But throughout her years in television Tracy remained a songwriter, and would put her own songs into the episodes whenever possible. As a result, her compositions have been sung on TV by k.d. lang, Ellen Degeneres, Eddie Fisher, and many others! This may seem a bit self-serving, but having heard a number of them, I can tell you that Tracy's songs are always clever, well-written and beautifully crafted -- the mark of a true professional. Tracy is the sister of legendary SNL alumnus Laraine Newman, about whom she wrote a song that I think is just about the sweetest tribute one could write to a loved one. The 'Reinforcements' are Lorie Doswell and Gene Lippmann, both of whom used to attend Tracys' shows, sit in the front row and harmonize, until Tracy just invited them up one night, and they've been performing together ever since. For more on Tracy, visit her website, www.tracynewman.com."
-Garret Swayne for the Cafe Bellissimo Main Street Songwriters Showcase newsletter
Thanks so much for playing @ the Cinema with me last Wednesday. You guys sounded amazing! BTW I have your disc in my car these days, you are absolutely brilliant!
Hoping hoping hoping that Cliff Eberhardt confirms for our show on the 7th of June. You, Louise Goffin, Cliff Eberhardt, Deborah Pearl, & Christopher Dallman. Wow, what a lineup!
Happy Birthday, Zack Hexum! Come out to Sundays on Sunset at Libertine on April 27th for Zack Hexum's Birthday Show!
It's a killer lineup that night - Nina Storey, Jared Lee, Jd Webb, Zack Hexum, and Mike Vitale. It all kicks off at 7:15 - $5 Cosmos and $4 Peronis all night.
8210 Sunset Blvd, right across the street from Chateau Marmont. Park at Myagi's for free!
Hey Tracy, Shawn & Kevin from LA's Rock cover band 'Forever Vinyl' are hosting an Open Mike Night at Venice Bistro on Wednesdays 23, 30, 5:30-10pm. It's right on the Venice boardwalk and our 1st show last Wed was a success. Why don't you and anyone other musicians you know come on down and play a few songs? You can do originals or covers and each musician will get 2-3 songs, unless we have time for more. We have PA, mikes, electric piano, acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, and percussion. This is going to be a forum for musicians to play, promote shows, give away/sell cd's and to network with other local musicians. This will be lots of fun. No cover. Contact me if you have any questions.
I can't wait to hear the final cut of the song you wrote about me. Thanx for the interest, I hope you can tune-in.
Yours truly, Naomi "Angel Baby"
Tune-in to "Lost in Paradise" & "Between the Sheets" for Black Rockers, Jungle Jive, Teen Heartthrobs, Unclassifiable Oddities and many more original 45s from the 1950s & 60s.
Go to my podcast page lostinparadise.podomatic.com to listen to archived shows.
