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Visit the different Shop sections based on your preferred way of ordering/paying. On this page, you'll find info on ordering by Mail orders (how to "snail mail" money orders etc.). The Paypal page lists sites that accept credit card payments as well as PayPal. The Local page lists some "brick and mortar" outlets, primarily in Canada. Please write or call and we can find the best way to get you music.

How to Mail Order direct from Rubenesque Records - Allison Crowe's own label:

Simply click here to access an order form. Fill it out this form (click here), or write on a piece of paper which music CD(s) or poster you want - descriptions of each are found below. Next, please send your request letter together with the currency amount listed for such item(s) in the form of a Postal Money Order or Bank Draft - payable to: either, Allison Crowe, or, to Rubenesque Records Ltd. Please ensure that any money orders are negotiable in Canada. (Some post office-issued money orders, for example, are only negotiable in the country of issuance.) Prices include ALL postage and handling costs

The XE.com Quick Currency Converter can help you convert your home currency to the Canadian (CDN) dollar equivalent so you know the value to send.

Kindly mail your order form (click here) + payment (made out to Allison Crowe or Rubenesque Records) to:

Adrian du Plessis
Allison Crowe Music
Box 227, Ganges P.O.
Salt Spring Island, B.C.
CANADA  V8K 2V9

PLEASE DO NOT send cash or personal checks in the mail. Thank you, merci, danke, grazie!

(Remember to make any money order or bank draft payable to, either, Allison Crowe, or, to, Rubenesque Records Ltd.)

Here, below, is the selection of music and art you can order by mail:

Little Light - Allison CroweSpiral contains eight of Allison Crowe’s original songs, ranging from the tender and playful country/roots of “Dearly”, to the upbeat pop of “Double-Edged  Swords”, ’cross the loving “Oceans”, and darker terrain of “I Don’t Know” and the hard rocking title track. Raw, natural, emotion is embraced passionately with elegiac beauty and melody in these, and such joy-filled tunes as “Going Home Tonight” and “No Matter the Battle”. With the live track, “Wake Up”, Crowe, again, renders the personal universal, and the global, human.

Uniquely known not just as one of the most exciting songwriters of a new generation, Crowe is also one of our finest interpreters of popular song. Spiral’s mix of light and shadow includes a trio of fresh covers – revisiting music of Annie Lennox (“Why”), Leonard Cohen (“Chelsea Hotel No. 2”), and Hunters and Collectors’ Antipodean anthem, “Throw Your Arms Around Me”.

On this new song collection, the bi-coastal Canadian, (she calls Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Nanaimo, British Columbia, home), is joined by ideally-skilled and sympathetic west-coast musicians Billie Rocha-Woods (acoustic guitar, backing vocals), Dave Baird (bass, backing vocals), Laurent Boucher (percussion), Brendan Millbank (cello) and Larry Anschell (electric guitar, and, also, Engineer/Producer at Turtle Studios in White Rock, B.C.)

Kayla Schmah, Los Angeles-based, Canadian-born, composer and film scorer, orchestrates and produces the album with, yes, "gorgeous" musical textures, and cinematic ideas artfully brought to life. Concert capturings by Engineers B.R.N. (aka Condor) and John MacMillan complete this diverse mix of music made in Corner Brook, Nanaimo, as well as Chilliwack, White Rock, Denman Island and Salt Spring Island, Canada, Vienna, Austria, and Hollywood, USA.

The visual art of Spiral matches its aural beauty - with cover paintings by Netherlands-based Tara Thelen, photographs by Canada's Billie Rocha-Woods, and California's Dan Goldwasser, fontage from Brazil’s Billy Argel and graphic design by Florida's Alix Whitmire.

Allison Crowe's newest album, Spiral    ****REVIEWS****

$14.98 CDN (includes Shipping & Handling) - physical CD/Album

 

 

<a href="http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/spiral-preview">Going Home Tonight (pre-album version) by Allison Crowe</a>

Little Light - Allison CroweLittle Light  is a popular singer-songwriter collection from Allison Crowe. It opens with a rustically shimmering version of "Northern Lights" - a song Allison performed 'specially for the John Lennon Northern Lights Festival in Durness, Scotland. "Angels" is recorded live at St. Andrew's United Church, Christmas-time, in Allison's birthplace, Nanaimo, Canada. She's backed here by bassist Dave Baird and percussionist Laurent Boucher. "Disease", a song of social commentary, has, through years of live performance, become epic - channeling Beethoven, grunge and more. Here 't'is captured in its raging glory by Larry Anschell (on International Women's Day 2008, the same night celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Engineer and Producer Anschell's Turtle Recording Studios - this live track co-engineered by Brad Graham). Title track "Little Light" is among a set of guitar songs that reveal a different sort of Allison Crowe's writerly reflections in music. "Happy People", like such earlier songs as Crowe's own, "Skeletons and Spirits", a bright melody coats more acid observations. Strong and gentle poetics of "Hold Back" warm us by a fire kindled in the '70s by Joni Mitchell. "Choose to Be" bridges the piano sound of Allison's "This Little Bird" songs with her new tunes. Bob Dylan's ramblin' shoes lead to a less restless farewell, as the album closes with "Wedding Song" - Crowe's sweetest, rootsiest, love song to date.

The interpretations on this collection are: "Time After Time" - originally a hit for that most unusual girl, Cyndi Lauper - Allison, a child of the '80s gives her impassioned take, live (Scott LittleJohn recording this, the same night as "Angels"); "Running for Home", is a cover of the Matthew Good Band, and one of the songs Allison has performed since her teens; and, by way of the Righteous Babe, Ani DiFranco, comes Allison's vocal-guitar nod to the great peace-loving bard, Phil Ochs - "When I'm Gone". "Can't be singing louder than the guns when I'm gone, so I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here."

Allison Crowe's popular Little Light   ****REVIEWS****

$14.98 CDN (price includes Shipping & Handling) - physical CD/Album

 

<a href="http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/little-light">Northern Lights by Allison Crowe</a>

This Little Bird - Allison CroweThis Little Bird  contains everything to love about the music of Allison Crowe. Adding titles of engineer and producer to her vocal, piano and guitar credits, Crowe is joined on most of the album's tracks by an ideal rhythm section ~ Dave Baird (bass) and Laurent Boucher (percussion). Nine new originals map emotional and spiritual territory with fresh sounds, encompassing: the elegiac "Phoenix"; the ramble tamble "Alive and Breathing"; gorgeous songs of love and hope, "Effortless" and "There Is"; the jaunty dark humor of "Skeletons and Spirits"; the redemptive grace of "Now"; the raucous celebration of the title track; a joy of simplicity in "Circular Reasoning"; and "Silence", a song that stirs with gypsy romance.

Acclaimed not only as an exciting songwriter and live performer, but, also, as a supreme song interpreter, for her freshly definitive takes, Allison Crowe delivers a trio of remarkable covers on "This Little Bird" - giving her singular voice to "A Case of You" (Joni Mitchell's knowing paen to heart and homeland), "Darling Be Home Soon" (John Sebastian's lovin' spoonful of longing) and "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)" (Ronnie Shannon's soulful song best-known as Aretha Franklin's break-out tune in 1967).

Allison Crowe's soaring album, This Little Bird ****REVIEWS****

$14.98 CDN (price includes Shipping & Handling) -  physical CD/Album

 

<a href="http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/this-little-bird">Effortless by Allison Crowe</a>

Live at Wood Hall CD Live at Wood Hall  is an exciting journey through Allison Crowe's concert repertoire, recorded with a simple clarity in the converted chapel of Victoria (B.C.)'s Conservatory of Music.  Alongside more than an album's worth of original songs of love and hope to social and political commentary, Allison covers cherished favourites - including Ani DiFranco ("Independence Day"), Counting Crows ("A Murder of One"), Tori Amos ("Playboy Mommy"), Janis Joplin ("Me and Bobby McGee"), and John Lennon ("Imagine"). Colours in the artist's musical palette range from roots & blues, through folk, pop/rock, jazz and Broadway. There's even a tradtional Irish aire, "Believe Me If All (Those Endearing Young Charms)", sung acapella. Once again, Larry Anschell (Turtle Studios) captures the music on tape and Alix Whitmire designs the beautiful artwork/CD cover. " 'Music, man, that's where it's at'/ it is a religious line/ outside, the chimes rung/ an they/ are still ringin."  ****REVIEWS****

$17.98 CDN (price includes Shipping & Handling) - physical Double-Album (2 CD set)

 

<a href="http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/live-at-wood-hall">There Is by Allison Crowe</a>

 Tidings CD "Music for the season and all time"

Tidings brings together traditional carols, and not-so-traditional songs, all interpreted, even redefined, through the vocal and piano artistry of Allison Crowe. It's a much-loved collection tagged "the Yule-tide find of the year" by one music critic. "Her voice celebrates the music with a bluesy rock-gospel intensity; her controlled vibrato, silken rasp, and powerful projection rivet your attention. This is no casual background music... be prepared to be amazed," says another reviewer. Tidings is popular year-round - not just during the Christmas season when it's a natural. The album's songs are recorded, live-off-the-floor, on Winter's eve in Canada by Engineer & Producer Larry Anschell, (Pearl Jam, Sarah McLachlan, k-os), who captures the magic at his Turtle Recording studio by the shore in White Rock, British Columbia.    

Tidings' track-listing: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (Traditional); River (Joni Mitchell); Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen); Silent Night (Traditional); In the Bleak Midwinter (Traditional); What Child Is This - Greensleeves (Traditional); Let It Be (The Beatles); The First Noel (Traditional); In My Life (The Beatles); O Holy Night (Traditional); Shine a Light (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards); Angel (Sarah McLachlan).  ****REVIEWS****

Peace on Earth ~ goodwill toward all. 

$14.98 CDN (price includes Shipping & Handling) - physical CD/Album

 

<a href="http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/tidings">It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by Allison Crowe</a>


Secrets CD Secrets  Allison Crowe recorded this solo, singer-songwriter, album in 2004. First setting up a home studio, Allison engineered and assisted with production (alongside Rainer Willeke of Canadian r'n'b combo, Soul Station). Allison performs all vocals (lead and harmonies), plays piano, guitar, keyboards and added percussive 'thumps' to the collection. Secrets contains a mix of tunes from Allison's "band days" (some of which are radically redefined), freshly-penned songs, and a couple of choice picks from other artists: Counting Crows' brooding "Raining in Baltimore" ~ the first song Allison performed when she launched her career as a singer-songwriter; and "Joan of Arc", a shining exemplar of Leonard Cohen's poetic brilliance. Guest artists contributing to Secrets are: Del Crowe (guitar); Jo Lundstrom (accordion); Eric Reiswig (Uilleann pipes); and Rainer Willeke (tambourine).   ****REVIEWS****

$14.98 CDN (price includes Shipping & Handling) - physical CD/Album

 

<a href="http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/secrets">How Long by Allison Crowe</a>


Lisa's Song+ 6 Songs CD Lisa's Song+ 6 Songs  The first track on this disc was recorded live-off-the-floor, in April 2003, by Rick Erickson of Seacoast Sound in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The six songs that follow "Lisa's Song" were recorded live-off-the-floor one afternoon on analog tape by Engineer and Producer Larry Anschell (Pearl Jam, Sarah McLachlan, Soundgarden+), at his Turtle Studios in White Rock, B.C. Allison Crowe and bandmates, Dave Baird (bass), Kevin Clevette (drums), stopped into Turtle while on their way to perform in Seattle, Washington, USA for "Jammers" - fans of Pearl Jam converging from all across America and the world. The essential truth of the trio's July 2001 session  is captured in these live, raw, grooves.  ****REVIEWS****

Please visit Lisa's Page to learn about Lisa Marie Young, the inspiration for the title song.

$9.98 CDN (price includes Shipping & Handling) - physical CD/EP

 

<a href="http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/lisas-song-6-songs">Lisa's Song by Allison Crowe</a>


 Bob Masse Poster

Rock poster designed by legendary graphic artist Bob Masse. Visit Bob's website and check out all his beautiful posters spanning the '60s to now ~ of Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Tori Amos and more.

This Allison Crowe concert poster, in vibrant, modern psychedelic hues, is 13.5" X 22.5".  

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