“Seasons” is Ready For You!

Posted on June 12, 2014 by yarnspinnerpress

securedownload-1_2“Seasons”, The 4CD gift set of spoken word is from the first five years of These Ozark Hills, the popular radio series airing on KSMU FM regional public radio by host Marideth Sisco. The CD’s are arranged by season and each disc contains ten of the best from the series. As a bonus also included is “The Best of Juneapple Records, a Song Sampler”. Juneapple is the label on which Sisco and her band record.

Included on the sampler disk are favorites from Blackberry Winters two latest albums and choice pieces from Van Colberts “Songs Little Vernie Ain’t Stole Yet” and Linda Stoffels “Songbird”.

Also currently available only on this CD the song “Soldier Boy”,  the featured piece written by Sisco and performed by Colbert for the documentary film “Stray Dog” directed by award winning director Debra Granick.

Listen to the clip of “Soldier Boy”.

Contact Sarah at moonmooring@yahoo.com for an order sheet.

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Soldier Boy Hits the Big Time

Posted on April 22, 2014 by yarnspinnerpress

Soldier Boy – with lyrics by Marideth Sisco and sung by Van Colbert, will be featured next month at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival!! The film is Debra Granik’s latest entry in strong and edgy independent films, and Soldier Boy is the song chosen for the “outro,” playing under the credits.

“Stray Dog” looks at the lives today of a group of Vietnam War veterans bound together by love, experience and shared horror.

The film was developed by the same independent film crew who brought you the four time Oscar nominated feature film “Winter’s Bone,“ The team, headed by award-winning director Granik, followed the group of veterans who live near Branson, Mo., for three years, filming them in stark and sometimes hilarious detail as they lived, laughed, cried and continued to support one another through a healing process and a bond that has lasted for decades.

The film’s name comes from their leader, Ron “Stray Dog” Hall, whom you may remember as the man who portrayed Ozark family patriarch “Thump” Milton in Winter’s Bone.

Photo by; Sarah Denton

SAMPLER frontSoldier Boy can be found on the latest album released by Juneapple Records – The Best of Juneapple Records, Song Sampler. The Best of includes Wings, sung by Tedi May, Linda Stoffel and Marideth Sisco and from the album Still Standing, In The Bleak Midwinter, sung by Marideth Sisco from her EP album A Christmas Offering, Bright Angel sung by Bo Brown from Still Standing, There Is A Time, from Linda Stoffels solo album Songbird, Nine Pound Hammer sung by Van Colbert from his album Songs Little Vernie Ain’t Stole Yet, These Ozark Hills by Blackberry Winter Band from the album In These Ozark Hills, and other notable songs from the Juneapple collection.

Contact Sarah at moonmooring@yahoo.com to get your copy. Ten dollars plus shipping and handling.

And look for the documentary Stray Dog – starring Ronnie Hall.

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BBW Returns to CMU-Warrensburg for Earth Day

Posted on April 17, 2014 by yarnspinnerpress

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Warrensburg Redux – We Love It

Posted on April 15, 2014 by yarnspinnerpress

securedownload-1_2As you may know Blackberry Winter will be performing in Warrensburg at UCM in Hendricks Hall on April 28, 7 pm. John Hess will once again be joining us in this show with a wonderful photographic essay. See you there!

This from John Hess;

What is a biologist/photographer
doing with a music group?

I worked with the Darwin Project that premiered in the fabulous Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts when it first opened. I was a consultant and contributing photographer, and I was asked to fill the 19×25′ screen to entertain the audience during intermission.

That was my initiation into performance imagery and it was followed in 2012 by my first collaboration with Blackberry Winter — an Educational Benefit at the Folly Theater in Kansas City, we worked together again last year, that time on the UCM campus for Earth Day.

From my perspective this is a novel art form. Like haiku it is defined by its boundaries and as an accompaniment, it moves with the pace of the performers. There is no video. Instead I use stills, both realistic and abstract, merging imagery, pans, and an occasional animation, all synchronized with the performance. The band is awesome and the imagery can add powerfully to an already strong performance.

Some of the images will be pretty, some graphic, some abstract, the transitions evocative. It is unique, probably the opportunity to experience this combination of the arts will not pass this way again. It will be a memorable evening. It will be delightful. I hope you can see it.
~ John Hess

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Kansas City Here I Come

Posted on February 24, 2014 by yarnspinnerpress

Representing Blackberry Winter and herself – Marideth’s first venture to Folk Alliance International conference.

Marideth

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Marideth with Ensemble Iberica at FAI

Marideth with Ensemble Iberica at FAI

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Legoland

 

The waterfall level of the lobby in the Westin

The waterfall level of the lobby in the Westin

Left to right; Tom Shipley of "Brewer and Shipley", Bruce Bureman and Tim O'Rourke.

Left to right; Tom Shipley of “Brewer and Shipley”, Bruce Bureman and Tim O’Rourke.

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These Ozark Hills: Out Of The Dark, Smoking

Posted on February 12, 2014 by yarnspinnerpress
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Here’s another post, or quite possibly a rant, discussing a matter of general interest and on topic for most folks these days.

If you’re a stalker, I mean lurker, I mean follower of this blog (all three are welcome, of course), you will notice that it starts out just like the last entry, but then veers off.

It was actually the draft version of the radio essay at one time. But then I was reminded by my radio minder, Jennifer Davidson, that the subject into which I had veered off into, namely marijuana legalization, is quite probably going to be voted on here in Missouri this year.

That makes it political, and as much as I’d love to be political, it just isn’t kosher on public radio to vent political opinions in a show ostensibly about the Ozarks.

Well, I knew that, I just didn’t know it was coming up for a vote here. Marijana Legan in MO? Amazing.

If, and it’s a big if, that were to happen, there are, I imagine, quite a few entrepreneurs making plans even now to make a quick, and brief, killing by harvesting and selling ditch weed hemp.

Let the buyer beware. I’m more interested, at my age, in seeing a revival of industrial hemp, which has a high probability of being a second economic and environmental boon for our state and national health. Will it be a success in Missouri? Heck, it grows wild here. Continue reading →

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Sisco’s Back in Town

Posted on February 8, 2014 by yarnspinnerpress

Well. By now you may have begun to notice that some of my more recent little radio essays have been sounding vaguely familiar. That’s because they were. I have been on an unintended sabbatical from this show since about August of last year. After discovering the return of endometrial cancer in mid-July, things outside my concern for my possible mortality got a little hazy — irrelevant, one might even say. I notified the folks here at KSMU that I would be going on hiatus for an indefinite period, and instead of wishing me well and sending me on my way, they said, no, they would just save my space for me.

How would they do that, I asked, and Jennifer Moore, now Davidson, just smiled and said “Reruns.” It was a huge gift, and I am more grateful than I can say.

So today’s news is, I’m back, and I’ll be back until I fall over or they throw me out for excessive doddering. The only changes of note since I’ve been away are that I’m not as strong as I was, my hands shake, I have a tiny collection of bits of implanted precious metals way deep in my innards, and I may still be somewhat radioactive. Other than that, it’s just back to business, part of which now is keeping those inevitable doddering days at bay. Continue reading →

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