APPEARS ON:
- Crooked Remainders,
2010
WORDS FROM KRISTIN:
- "This is Betty's song...my friend Betty, whose ghost haunts Palm Springs,
or at least haunts me in Palm Springs. She died here, lonely. I was too afraid to see her old to go looking for her. But I
bet she was beautiful up to and through the end.
Recorded by the great and powerful Ethan Allen, of the late Kingsway
studio in New Orleans and the first two 50FootWave records. Ethan worked on Throwing Muses' Limbo, as well as Sky
Motel and the "Echo" single.
Ethan's Royal Triton in LA is a studio full of lovely old mikes, an iso booth jammed with
old National Geographics and undelivered Christmas presents, and a control room decorated with tiny gears, bad lamps, broken
tools and Ethan's gentle smile.
No drums, no bass per se, though we achieved bass frequencies by dropping one of the acoustics
an octave. The track sounds sweet, yet bizarre. Somehow a B flat crept in, though there's no such note in the chords I was
playing. Maybe it's Betty, singing along. Betty sure liked to sing.
The lyrics hurt my feelings 'cause I miss Betty and I
missed her end, but I like to think of her sweet, yet bizarre self having only palm trees to answer to, after a life fraught
with tension. Bullied by the entertainment industry, she was riddled with insecurity...a great brain, not given a minute to
think.
This
song says she found some peace.
Love, Kristin"
