Elbert Lee
Butterfly: Songs of the Haunted Prairie
© 2002 © William Elbert Lee (format: CD-R)
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Cowboy Jazz and Western Swing.
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- 1 Ghost Riders in the Sky
- 2 The Cowboy from Boston
- 3 Apache
- 4 Butterfly
- 5 Tumbling Tumbleweeds
- 6 Blue Hotel
- 7 Pancho and Lefty
- 8 Dolorosa
- 9 I'm an Old Cowhands
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Butterfly got its start in 2001... right after 9/11, in fact, though it has nothing to do with any of that, unless perhaps indirectly. I wrote the three main tunes, Cowboy From Boston, Dolorosa and Butterfly in a couple of days, and fattened up the original recording with some covers. Ultimately I knew I would want to make an all original album, but I wasn’t really in the flow with my song writing just then. I recorded the album with a little pick up band I pulled together in a weekend in Key West, ran a rough and ready mix on it and released it to my trusty fan base; surprisingly to me, people liked it immensely. I really sold more than enough to consider the project a success.
But unfortunately I kind of ran dry in my writing the next year and back burnered the project.
Being by heritage a southern boy, and by predilection a beatnik, the oddly mixed flavorings of cowboy music and jazz came naturally to me. Add to that a love of Mexicali inherited from my father, and I guess some of the weirdness that is me might come into focus. I wanted to write an album that captured the spookiness of the southwest; I wanted the tunes to refer to one another and tell a larger story, and those first three seemed like a good start on this.
I’ve come back to the project now in 2007 armed with some good ideas, and the certainty that my writing has gotten stronger. I’m determined to make Butterfly what I intended at the outset. All original, with songs that cover a lot of stylistic ground, and yet hang together in feeling.
My target date for the next release is June 2007. I may do better than that, but I won’t hurry the process. This is a project that has teased me for a while, and I believe that when it’s done, it will be a defining work for me.
Visit my web site for updates and samples as it unfolds.
Thanks for your interest.