REPLAY: Crissi Cochrane on Facebook Live, May 23, 2020
Crissi Cochrane
Saturday night’s live-stream was my ninth stream since we began Soul City TV back in March, and it was an extra special one, being the one officially funded by the City of Windsor’s Arts, Culture, and Heritage Fund. To mark the occasion, I added two new tunes to the repertoire - my upcoming single “Can We Go Back”, and a new custom love song, “Love The Way You Love Me” - and I dusted off my cover of Feist’s “One Evening”, which I haven’t played in years.
I also decided to give my white Squier Jaguar a little tune-up before the show (successfully adjusting a truss rod for the first time in my life!), which included swapping out the red tortoiseshell pickguard on my white Squier Jaguar for a pearly white one. I bought the white pickguard several years ago, but it isn’t a perfect fit, lifting the bridge up by a few millimetres, which raises the strings off the neck and can make the guitar harder to play. However, the humidity has officially arrived here in Windsor, and all of our guitars (and all of the wood in our oak-trimmed house) are responding by swelling and warping, and the action has been so low on the white Jaguar that all of the strings were rattling. I’m very pleased I was able to correct this by myself. After nearly twenty years of playing guitar, I suppose it’s time I learned a thing or two about guitar maintenance..!
SET LIST:
10:34 Be Around
16:15 Something We Did
23:07 Can We Go Back
28:28 Brother She’s Gone
33:33 I Will Survive
43:08 Like A Lady
47:04 A Change Is Gonna Come
51:18 Love The Way You Love Me
55:57 Hungry Love
59:37 Sleep In The Wild
1:04:50 One Evening
1:12:33 Bang Bang
Mike and I were pretty chatty in the first half of this show, and we did have a couple small technical difficulties - we recently moved the entire studio setup to a different wall, so everything had to be unplugged and put into new places, so our soundboard didn’t have our theme music and clapping samples available at a couple moments in the show. But ah well! I trust you’ll forgive us! We are only human! I feel like I’ve finally gotten to a point where I’m not nervous as hell about live-streaming anymore, and I don’t almost have a breakdown 20 minutes before going live. I think it’s because, now that we have put out SO much content, I feel like it’s alright if I maybe have one bad night every now and then, because the balance of the videos have been overall really good. That being said, I know that the latest stream is always the one new people will discover first, so I always want to leave things on a good note… but it’s nice to take it easy on myself sometimes too!
I have another stream coming up soon, but it’s an unusual one. It’ll be happening at 7PM ET on the Windsor-Essex Pride Fest Facebook page. It’s actually a paid gig too, so that’s pretty cool. I love that festivals can present entertainment online, and I love that different online hubs can be the equivalent of local venues for our music right now. I’ll have more details about that show soon!
Mike and I still have to sit down and sort out what the live-stream schedule is going to be like for June, because the other artists on the Soul City Music Co-op are taking over some of the Saturday spots this month. Brendan Scott Friel is streaming his Saturday, May 30 at 7:30PM ET, and then Madeline Doornaert is streaming on Saturday, June 13 (time TBA). I love that we’ll finally have some more variety in our streams this month, and I especially love that I’ll be able to reclaim some more of my time to work on other projects, but it means that I’m not sure when Mike and I will be streaming next on the Soul City page. We’ll get that info out soon!
This week, I’m recording a custom song that I finished writing yesterday. It was the first time I’d ever taken a guitar to the backyard, and I sat under our enormous oak tree, on a picnic blanket, in one of my homemade sundresses and a big floppy hat. I think being next to our garden infused the song with a more whimsical vibe. We’re also finishing up the final master of “Can We Go Back”, and Mike has been getting ready to attempt to film a music video for it this summer. I’ve been tending to my newly sprouted vegetable garden, concocting various solutions to ward bugs from our home and garden, and looking longingly at my elliptical machine and wishing I had more time/energy to work out. Adeila’s second birthday is on Thursday and I’m excited to spoil the bejesus out of her. I’m also anxious to complete the next post in my The Meaning Of series, getting into the stories behind the song “Get Out”. I started it one day last week, and it was so difficult to write, that I actually spent the rest of the day feeling physically ill. So I’d love to just get that off my plate and keep moving forward. That’ll be out soon!
Alright, time to make some lunch for the family. Love you! Thanks for reading!