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Golden Thread

by The Aimées

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Rising Green 02:50
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Coming Home 03:33

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Thank Yous:
Endless gratitude to Camelia Jade Lazenby for your soulful guidance, your golden ears, your humor and your grounded clarity which let us breath easy as the sound and scope of this album took shape in your care!
George Rezendez and Lindsay Hamilton for opening your beautiful home to our work! Thanks for stopping by during our sessions to offer an ear and pet the Shoob dog, for engineering the early sessions, and for being cheerleaders of our music over the years. Your generous presence in our community and in our lives are a blessing that never stops!
Thank you to Shuba for being with us in the studio as our "Session Buddha" over the years and for grounding our work in the furry, floppy, sighing here and now.
Kate Copeland for understanding these songs and allying your incredible talents, vision, organization and care to their full realization!
Sam Barnes, Julia Biber, Vita Wallace, Hans Bilger, Austin Vaughn, Mike O'Mally and Andrew Sheron for being the band of merry folk we never met but who swarmed around our songs with such beauty that they blossomed more fully into themselves. Thank you for doing what you're doing!
Mark Ettinger for being a total mensch and offering your studio for pinch-hit violin part recordings and for everything else you do and did to keep our dear arranger supported throughout this project.
Doug Haire and the crew at Jack Straw Cultural Center for mastering so masterfully.
Thank you to Kiyota Sage for your beautiful graphics, layout know-how and for giving us the use of your amazing guitar for most of the recording sessions! Your enthusiasm for our music is the highest of compliments from the best of men!
James Curtis for making Kiyota's guitar and for loaning us that other awesome guitar you made for the earliest sessions of this project.
Chris Gilbert for the use of YOUR lovely guitar for those other sessions...and for your delightful suggestions of alternate band names for us if "The Aimées" doesn't work out.
Parker Deen for your beautiful photos and for your friendship and love over the years.
Deep and wide thanks to Ben Bochner, Namoli Brennet, Peter Mayer, Pete Seeger, Richard Shindell, Willy Porter, Laura Veirs, and Carolyn McDade for your incredible music that we are blessed to play and for your creative example that we are honored to emulate and share.
Stephen Levine, your poetry and prose lift our hearts to a greater knowing of life, death and love. Thank you.
Thank you to Ward Serril for your vision and inspiration that helped launch our video and thus our Indiegogo campaign and thus our album into reality.

Great and Beautiful Mystery that brings life to us all, we are grateful to you for the music that moves us to sing and find beauty every day.
We also offer our deepest thanks for the encouragement, support and delight so generously given by ​family, friends, our beloved community in Port Townsend, WA, fans & fellow musicians in the wider tribe.
We dedicate this music to you who envision a more beautiful world, one where communities of music and song are the center of our days and nights. May this music add nourishment to your good, true, and beautiful work in the world.

credits

released December 5, 2016

1. Pretty Flowers
Written by Ben Bochner
Aimée Kelley - vocals
Aimée Ringle - vocals, guitar

2. Blessed Rain
Written by Aimée Ringle
Aimée Ringle - vocals, guitar, bodhran
Aimée Kelley - vocals
Vita Wallace - violin
Julia Biber - cello
Hans Bilger - upright bass

3. Blue Boat Home
Music by Roland Prichard
Words by Peter Mayer
Aimée Kelley - vocals
Aimée Ringle - vocals, guitar

4. Wiinna's Song
Written by Aimée Kelley and Aimée Ringle
Aimée Kelley - vocals
Aimée Ringle - vocals, guitar
Kate Copeland - pump organ
Sam Barnes - violin
Julia Biber - cello
Austin Vaughn - percussion

5. Life Breath and Sound
Written by Namoli Brennet
Aimée Kelley - vocals
Aimée Ringle - vocals, guitar

6. Golden Thread
Written by Pete Seeger
Aimée Kelley - vocals
Aimée Ringle - vocals, guitar

7. You Stay Here
Written by Richard Shindell
Aimée Kelley - vocals
Aimée Ringle - vocals, guitar
Kate Copeland - pump organ
Sam Barnes - violin
Julia Biber - cello
Hans Bilger - upright bass

8. Make Something Good
Written by Laura Veirs
Aimée Kelley - vocals
Aimée Ringle - vocals, guitar
Kate Copeland - pump organ
Sam Barnes - violin
Julia Biber - cello
Austin Vaughn - percussion

9. The Beloved Remains
Text by Stephen Levine
Music by Aimée Ringle and Aimée Kelley
Aimée Kelley - vocals
Aimée Ringle - vocals, guitar
Sam Barnes - violin
Julia Biber - cello
Hans Bilger - upright bass
Austin Vaughn - percussion
Mike O'Malley - bouzouki

10. Rising Green
Written by Carolyn McDade
Aimée Kelley - vocals
Aimée Ringle - vocals, guitar

11. Coming Home
Written by Peter Mayer
Aimée Kelley - vocals
Aimée Ringle - vocals, guitar

All tracks recorded by Camelia Jade Lazenby (except Make Something Good).
All tracks mixed by Camelia Jade Lazenby.
All master tracks recorded at Tool Shed Soundlab in Port Townsend, WA.
Additional arrangements and production by Kate Copeland, recorded at Lethe Lounge in New York, NY. (Blessed Rain, Wiinna's Song, You Stay Here, Make Something Good andThe Beloved Remains).
All tracks mastered by Doug Haire at Jack Straw Cultural Center in Seattle, WA.

Additional Sound Engineering:
George Rezendez - Make Something Good
Andrew Sheron - Blessed Rain, Wiinna's Song, You Stay Here, Make Something Good, and The Beloved Remains
Mark Ettinger - Blessed Rain

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