Cathy Stewart-songwriter (BMI), vocals, rhythm guitar
Greg Stewart- percussion
Dave Busch- bass
Jeff Kenders-lead and rhythm guitar and vocals
with frequent guest
Dave Rudovsky-pedal steel
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It is always an honor when someone else wants to sing one of your songs. Emily Eutsey singing "Here I Am" at the memorial field trial for her Brother Chris Jr., who lost his life last year when a deer came through the windshield of his car ironically on his way to go hunting. The trial was a huge success, and raised a lot of money for the Chris Eutsey Jr Memorial Scholorship Fund, that will provide college funding for young men and women involved in the sport of beagling. It truly warmed my heart to be able to be a part of it in some small way. and warmed my heart to hear this little girl sing this song...
Influences
"Don't hail me and don't idolize the ink...." Axl Rose-"Don't Damn Me"
"Ya can't write if you can't relate...get crazy with the Cheez Whiz..." Beck "Loser"
From "That Thing You Do"-"Dell Paxton: It ain't no way to keep a band together. Bands come and go. You gotta keep playin', no matter with who."
"... you know what they say: You lie down with the devil, you wake up in hell."
-- Horatio Caine "CSI Miami"
"One minute, you're running the world and, the next, you're in a six-by-six."
-- Tim Speedle "CSI Miami"
"So what do you get when a six-foot-tall man lays down with a three-foot-long rifle?"
"Hot flashes. But that's just me."
-- Horatio Caine and Calleigh Duquesne CSI Miami (ME TOO CAL!)
"Naked Eye" written by Pete Townshend.
"You can cover up your guts, but when you cover up your nuts
You're admitting that there must be something wrong
Press any button, and milk and honey flows
The world begins behind your neighbor's wall
It all looks fine to the naked eye, But it don't really happen that way at all...........
Don't happen that way at all...."
"Slit Skirts"-Pete Townshend
"No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned, for a moment you'd imagine that there must be something learned..."
Cathy Stewart-general ramblings....
"Luck and fate walk hand in hand,
How can their bond be broken?
By only simple disregard
Of things one leaves unspoken."
BIGGEST INFLUENCE IN MY MUSIC AND LIFE: JESUS CHRIST
SECOND BIGGEST INFLUENCE: MY FAMILY...
as to musical influences.......
Let's see, there are so many, starting from my early years listening to and playing music by Clifford Brown, Miles, Bird, Maynard, Dixie Dregs, Matrix, and my rock influences of The Who, Skynnyrd, Zeppelin, CCR, Guns N' Roses, Creed, to country influences from Toby, Faith Hill, Wayne Warner, Josh Turner, Corbin Hanner, Sarah Evans, John Michael Montgomery, Johnny Cash, and the list goes on, to my education in classical music with Haydn being my favorite with Bach a close second, to my Christian favorites like Steven Curtis Chapman, Avalon, Point of Grace, plus a lot of old Country Gospel songs.
Going a little more into detail.....
Homer and Jethro and Wierd Al and Dr Demento taught me humor, Donny Osmond taught me how to match pitch, Billy Joel taught me to grow up and use the craft of words(we are talking Streetlife Seranade, Turnstiles, Cold Spring Harbor and The Stranger), John Denver taught me to find a little yee haw in my life and sparked me to learn guitar, Maynard Ferguson taught me to achieve the seemingly impossible, Bird, Trane, Prez, Clifford B, Jaco, Max R, Oscar P, Joe P, Chick, Joe Zawlinul, Stanley T, Woody, Satchmo, Brubeck etc, taught me passion for the way a tune "feels" to become a part of the creation as it happens through improvisation, and gave me a musical soul, The Dregs and Matrix taught me different is cool, Zeppelin, Skynnyrd, AC/DC, Aerosmith, and Guns n Roses taught me to rock, HARD....Pete, Rodger, Moonie and The Ox gave me a release for my angst, Dan Fogelburg and Mark Murphy showed me how powerfully music can effect one's desires and emotions, David Bowie showed me how to look past the wierdness and enjoy the musical ride, and Gordon Sumner the lesson of versatility. There are a hundred more, but this gives you an idea........and if you don't know who Gordon Sumner is....look it up!
Sounds Like
You should come out of your cave and see me and Jigsaw play some of the best original music (and even some covers too) that you will hear for a long time.....
ORIGINALS-EP 1 is done and available at shows or downloadable on my Snocap store....THIS BEGGAR'S READY TO RIDE-EP 2 is off to a slow start due to some seasonal throat problems, but we are getting ready for rehearsals for the first song to be recorded...wait'll ya see the lineup on THIS EP.....whooohooooo!!!!!!!!!!. 45 or so (I've begun to lose count) are copyrighted and registered with BMI, publishing arrangements will be handled by Warner Publishing BMI of Nashville, with my good friend Wayne Warner going to bat for me.
Special thanks to the following people and studios...... Play On Studios/Dave Hanner for recording/arranging Teardrops, Alliteration, and Here I Am, and recording Dreams Do and Come Down; DJW Audio/Doug Wilkin for recording "Walkin' Shoes"; and Albey Road Studio/Al Snyder for final production work on Come Down and Dreams Do, and for all the great stuff we are going to be knocking out on EP 2 and beyond. Special thanks to all my "boys in the band", Dave Rudovsky, Greg Stewart, Bob "Crafty" Crafton, Dave Hanner, Ryan Langley, and Al Snyder. Without all of this wonderful talent, the music would not have the life it has. I'm awed and humbled by the talent I've been surrounded by.
What everyone needs to know is that I am first and foremost a songwriter. I'd rather hear the voice I heard sing the song when I wrote it do it than mine. Ok, so I hear "voices", call the guys in the white coats and haul me off. I just sing for fun, and as long as its good enough not to make your ears bleed, I've done ok.
Cathy is a 1986 graduate of Duquesne University's School of Music, a trumpet major with a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education. Finding teaching jobs was difficult, so she pursued her other love and has had her own pet grooming business and raises champion beagles.
Music finally had time to come back and make a new impact on her life, with support from her biggest fan, daughter Brianne and her husband, Brian.
"Every song the good Lord blesses me with, whether Christian, country, blues or rock, has a story or a message. God's been good to me. If I reach one person with one song,
all the struggles have been worth it."
She also performs her new material regularly at the Bloomfield Bridge Tavern's songwriter's Tuesday open mic nights, as well as being a regular at the Rex and Acoustic Cafe's Open Stage at Club Cafe'. She often sits in with the Dallas Marks Band and has, is or will be gigging with Warren King, Dallas Marks, Southern By Choice, Brynn Marie and The Fabulous Gunslingers (who have the kickinest salsa I've ever tasted).
A Big Heads Up to all those friends and fans in
and around the Pittsburgh area. Mark Dignam
will be performing at The Map Room on the
29th of November at 8pm. Supporting artist is
yet to be confirmed.
Mark will be singing songs from his previous
albums "In a Time of Overstatement" and
"Box Heart Man", along with some new material
that will be appearing on his new, yet untitled CD.
Go and show Your support to Your local independent
musicians. See a LIVE gig.
Map Room-1126 South Braddock (Regent Square),
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Telephone 412- 371-1955
aahh well we definetely gotta pick an afternoon and just jam or something. and narwhals? it's interesting none the less. definte conversation starter at that.
