Studio B: Unreleased Recordings ~ music from radio/tv broadcasts, rare home sessions, live bootlegs+
(*Releases on CD are in Studio A; enjoy also Rock videos and Tidings videos along with Web 2.0 Videos #1 + Web 2.0 Videos #2 ; Sheet Music ; + ALL songs are in the ABC List)
Love, indeed, makes the world go 'round. In celebration, Allison Crowe recorded this tune, by Aussie band Hunters and Collectors, as a wedding song for Marsha & Sam who united in holy matrimony. The song's special release ~ on May 8, 2004 at 2:00 p.m. EST ~ coincided with the commencement of their wedding ceremony in Ottawa, our Canuck nation's capital ( :
"All things pass away; love and music last forever"
| Track | Title | Length | Music/Lyrics |
| 1 | Throw Your Arms Around Me (A. John Archer, Geoffrey Crosby, Douglas Falconer, Robert Miles, Mark Seymour, Michael Waters, John Howard ~ Mushroom Music) |
4:40 | |
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In January 2004, in concert, Allison Crowe led the assembled musicians in a group-closer ~ John Lennon's song, "Imagine". In April 2004, she headined a concert to cap Earth Week activities in Victoria, the capital city of her home province of British Columbia, Canada. The "Goolden Gala" (in a gorgeous, old, converted 800-seat church) was to "Celebrate Peace Earth and Justice". Also to that end, Allison made this recording (of a song later to be released on her "Live at Wood Hall" double-album.)
| Track | Title | Length | Music/Lyrics |
| 1 | Imagine (John Lennon ~ Lenono Music) |
3:11 | |
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The UNESCO-endorsed New
Songs for Peace Project gathers together "songs which
promote peace, cultural acceptance and understanding for those who
work towards peace throughout the world". It is a growing
initiative endorsed by organizations including the Centre for
Political Song and the Woody Guthrie Archives, and such individual
advocates as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and artists Pete
Seeger, Philip Glass, and Abbey Lincoln.
Allison Crowe is represented in the NSFP project by a pair of live-off-the-floor recordings. Her original song for peace, "Whether I'm Wrong", was recorded live in CBC Radio Studio 2 in Vancouver in Fall 2003.
And, her interpretation of, Sarah McLachlan-penned, "Angel", was recorded live at Turtle Studios in White Rock, B.C. one winter's evening (in December 2003).
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NXNW Session on CBC Radio
On September 10, 2003, Allison made a visit to CBC Studio 2 in Vancouver, B.C. for a performance/interview session with Sheryl MacKay, Host of CBC Radio's North by Northwest program. (The CBC is Canada's national public broadcaster - akin to the BBC in the U.K. and NPR in the U.S. It's a wonderful, uniting, presence in Canada. Bless the CBC!) Gary Heald engineered the pair of songs recorded live-off-the floor: a stately, slower, version of Whether I'm Wrong, one of Allison's newest songs, which has become part of the UNESCO-endorsed New Songs for Peace project; and Montreal, a song inspired by Allison's visit to that Canadian city on her national Crying in a Rainstorm Tour.
| Track | Title | Length | Music/Lyrics |
| 1 | Whether
I'm Wrong (A. Crowe ~ Sambuca Music) |
4:45 | |
| 2 | Montreal (A. Crowe ~ Sambuca Music) |
5:14 |
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Covering the song-front Allison enjoys
the art of interpretation - performing songs
by those artists who've inspired her through life. There's riches to
be found all over the musical spectrum. Gathered here is a collection of rare, and, often, live, covers captured over the years
2001 - 2006. Hear Allison at the piano in her living room, singing and
playing her favourite Tori Amos
tunes. (Visit Sarah Wheeler's Strange
Little Covers site for Tori covers from a host of artists. And
thanks to The Dent,
a fab Tori fansite, for first posting a link to Allison's live
version of "Playboy Mommy" - one of the earliest
recordings made by Condor, a great fan and friend of music.) Leonard
Cohen, Pearl
Jam, Ani DiFranco and
Counting
Crows are also represented in recordings from home and stage.
NB here, also, is a dedicated Allison Crowe Covers Tori Amos link/page
| Track | Title | Length | Music/Lyrics |
| 1 | Tonight Will Be Fine (Leonard Cohen) | 4:10 |
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| 2 | Raining in Baltimore (Counting Crows) | 4:59 |
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| 3 | Indifference (Pearl Jam) | 3:50 |
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| 4 | Playboy Mommy (Tori Amos) | 3:21 | |
| Real Player / Windows Media Player | Stream | ||
| 5 | Northern Lad (Tori Amos) | 4:22 | |
| Real Player / Windows Media Player | Stream | ||
| 6 | Release (Pearl Jam) | 4:25 | |
| 7 | Both Hands (Ani DiFranco) | 3:51 | |
| 8 | 1000 Oceans (Tori Amos) | 4:42 | |
| Real Player / Windows Media Player | Stream | ||
| 9 | Lay Down (Melanie Safka) | 3:43 | |
| 10 | Doughnut Song (Tori Amos) | 4:45 | |
| Real Player / Windows Media Player | Stream | ||
| 11 | Who Will Save Your Soul (Jewel Kilcher) | 4:41 | |
| 12 | Josephine (Tori Amos) | 2:16 | |
| Real Player / Windows Media Player | Stream | ||
| 13 | 32 Flavors (Ani DiFranco) | 3:04 | |
| 14 | Smells Like Teen Spirit (Kurt Cobain ~ Nirvana) | 5:05 | |
| Real Player / Windows Media Player | Stream |
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Midnight ~ the Video
In May 2002, Allison Crowe, her band, and a dedicated cast and crew assembled by Director Alex Postowoi, created a video for the song, "Midnight". This music video marked the directorial debut of Postowoi, a veteran television and major motion picture lensman (who's shot videos for Jann Arden, Bif Naked, Joan Armatrading+). You can view the Midnight Video on the Steadiman Productions site. And, yes, the grand piano survived the rain-storm ( :
Early Sessions

By her mid-teens, Allison Crowe was performing regularly on stage up and down Vancouver Island, Canada. Band performances were often at the Queen's rock club, and solo shows were frequent at Katz lounge, two venues in her hometown of Nanaimo. In 1997, (pictured above), Allison topped 17 other vocalists and was named Island Songbird at the Vancouver Island Exhibition (VIEX). A couple of early songs from this period were recorded for a band album never completed. The song "Dark Blue", originally titled "Slow Song", is heard in a different version on the various "6 Songs" EPs. "Shadows", with the working title of "Fast Song", is not available on any recording. For these sessions, Allison is accompanied by her trio of Dave Baird (bass) and Kevin Clevette (drums) along with Larry Anschell (guitar), Ed Johnson (percussion), and Darryl Havers (Hammond A1).
Here, then, is a listen to a pair of Allison's early song recordings.
| Track | Title | Length | Music/Lyrics |
| 1 | Dark
Blue (Slow Song) (Allison Crowe ~ Sambuca Music) |
4:50 |
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| 2 | Shadows
(Fast Song) (Allison Crowe ~ Sambuca Music) |
2:49 |
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