www.gopetition.com/petition...iran.html

Other ways to help can be read here: emsenn.com/iran.php

Fear kills.
People are dying for what they believe in all over the world right now, and not just in Iran. Iran's government is clearly running scared, and their people have become expendable to them--their people who are free thinkers just like us, their students, their mothers, their internet-savvy rebels.

Do what you can from where you are.
Hold the light.
Thank you.

"Girl with the Lion's Tail (Lucia's Song)" awaits you.
skinnywhitechick.bandcamp.com/tra...song
Enjoy!

I realize that my bias is severe, but even so, I hope you'll all agree with me: Tony Fabris (find him at www.geekhackfilk.com ) has done an amazing job, in his capacity as recording engineer, of helping me create and perfect this song as it sounded in my head, mixing each vocal and each instrument to my every specification, in addition to meeting his June 1st deadline for producing the entirety of our friend Brooke Lunderville's album. This will not be the only time we work together in the studio, he and I, I dearly hope.

Betsy Tinney's cello contribution to this piece is, as usual, breathtaking. I don't know what I did before I had cello in my life. So much emotion is contained in those five strings (and that's not a misprint--Raven is a five-string cello, not a standard four-string). What amazed me most about the cello part that Betsy brought to this song is that from time to time, she not only evokes Lucia's emotions, but those of Lucia's husband Ludovico as well. The scene in Palimpsest which inspired this piece involves Lucia cutting her ties with her husband, and his not wanting to let her go. Particularly toward the end of the song, Betsy and her cutting, mournful cello work put me in mind of Ludo begging Lucia to come home with him. This is absolute magic, and I never would have expected it. Thank you, Betsy!

Michelle "Vixy" Dockrey (find her at www.vixyandtony.com )played shaker on this track, as I was uncertain of my own ability to lay down a good, strong, steady shaker track myself. It was the least she could do, as she is a consummate musician and vocalist, but this tiny favor from her nevertheless has helped the dream of this song come true, and I love her for it.

Thanks, always, to Cat, ( www.catherynnemvalente.com ) for inspiring me so. Our tour ends in a day, but I have yet more songs coming to accompany her delightful and sinful book. Keep checking the album page throughout the summer. I'm hoping to complete at least two more songs as part of the tie-in album. Tomorrow Cat and I perform the Palimpsest Road Show one more time, on the deck of a tall ship in the New York harbor. Location info is on my tour schedule page, www.skinnywhitechick.com/shows.php and the show is also listed as a Facebook Event. I hope you'll join us.