Track Listing

Shine
Keepsake
Cell Phone
Too Late
Traces Of
Kissing the Ground
Sunburned
Among Every Stone That Has Been Cast
Full Moon
How Long

PSR048

Linda Draper
“Keepsake”

Released 2007
Produced By Linda Draper and Major Matt Mason
Mastered By Mark Christensen at Engine Room Audio, NYC
All songs © 2006, 2007 L Draper Music (BMI) except “How Long” written by Rick Nelson © Sony/ATV Songs LLC, Matragun Music (BMI)

About

Linda Draper's much anticipated fifth studio long player, "Keepsake" brings you along for 10 beautifully crafted songs - it continues where her last LP, 2005's "One Two Three Four" (produced by Kramer) left off. The album marks her first self-produced effort, along with co-producer Major Matt Mason (Adam Green, Kimya Dawson, Jeffrey Lewis etc.) and was recorded at Olive Juice Music Studios in New York City.

The CD presents Linda in an intimate setting accompanied throughout by stand-up bass, piano, violin, cello, slide guitar, touches of percussion and xylophone - the focus always being the pure beauty of Draper's vocal performance. The soft melodic strum of the lead off track "Shine" instantly brings you into Linda's world with heavenly harmonies and accented cellos. The title cut "Keepsake" features two of Draper's mainstays - fine tuned songwriting and her quiet shimmering vocal delivery, which settles in nicely with the song's balanced guitar/bass rhythms. "Cell Phone," a lighthearted ode to the technology that shortens the distance between us, recalls simpler times. The LP's first single "Traces Of" shows us another side of Linda - jazz vibed leanings and cabaret style arrangements sprinkled with her brand of story telling songwriting. One of her earliest compositions, "Full Moon" emerges with a haunting melody and a dark atmospheric glow. Closing out the album is Linda's delightful angelic lullaby-like reading of Rick Nelson's "How Long," complete with slide guitar and dusty trails - a song she make's all her own.

"Keepsake" contains 10 charming, elegant new songs and is truly a collection of songs to be cherished.