REPLAY: Crissi Cochrane on Facebook Live, August 8, 2020
Crissi Cochrane
Ooh! I had a lovely time on-stream tonight! I was pretty nervous about this one because it’s been a while, and I haven’t practiced as much as I should have, and I wore something sleeveless though I’m very self-conscious of my arms which have grown quite plump over the course of the pandemic. But, oh well guys, this is just where I’m at right now!
I was especially nervous because I played some new tunes on stream. I covered Madeline Doornaert’s beautiful “Muddy Water”, which Adeila has been singing along to lately and totally breaking my heart (a two year old singing “seasons change and we grow older” is just a little too real), and I also covered Soul Brother Mike’s “Learn To Vibe”, which I used to play regularly back when I was touring Little Sway, but haven’t played in years.
I also debuted a brand-new song on stream, a song that I’m tentatively calling “Why”. I’m really relieved to finally be writing new songs again. This song definitely feels like me, but it still feels like something a bit more creative and unexpected, which is the direction I’d like to go. I wrote the chorus a week or two ago, and then I decided to write verses inspired by the book “The Shoemaker’s Wife” by Adriana Trigiani that I finished reading at the end of July.
SET LIST:
9:22 Be Around
14:37 Can We Go Back
18:09 Muddy Water (Madeline Doornaert cover)
22:46 Something We Did
28:31 Like A Lady
34:37 Why (new song!)
42:20 Sleep In The Wild
50:57 Learn To Vibe (Soul Brother Mike cover)
56:06 Hungry Love
1:04:07 Sweet & Fine
As always, I have my brother’s Twitch feed on in the background while I type - he’s usually streaming every Saturday night, so it’s my cool-down after my own stream wraps. I’m really thinking about trying to, for future streams, go live on Facebook and Twitch at the same time, if our internet connection can manage it. (We’re still having some audio/video sync issues on Facebook Live, so I’m not too sure this will fly.) But… the more I think about it, the more I feel like Facebook just isn’t the greatest place for live-streams. People (honestly, myself included) are mostly just there to scroll, and see as many headlines, anecdotes, and cute photos as possible. It’s short-term entertainment, short-attention span content. Few people are likely to stumble on a live-stream and actually stay there for more than a minute or two, and it’s just too hard to try to put on a show that’s geared to attracting that type of viewer. But everyone on Twitch is there to stumble on the exact type of content that we are creating. So… I think it’s worth a try!
Well, I shouldn’t stay up too late, because I’m supposed to shoot a little live performance video of “Can We Go Back” on our back steps tomorrow morning. Something to go along with the single which comes out this Friday, August 14! So soon! I’m so excited!
Though what I’d really like to do is stay up late obsessively reading. Even though I only started it yesterday, I’m currently more than halfway through “Throw Down Your Shadows” by Deborah Hemming, a woman I went to school with. It’s her first book, and it’s amazing. I feel like it’s usually only towards the end of a book that I can’t put it down and become furious when anything (or anyone) tries to tear me away from my book, but I seem to have gotten to that point within the first 40 pages. It takes place in the Annapolis Valley, where I grew up, and reading about so many familiar things is both making me homesick and also providing the perfect way to temporarily transport myself there. I also just feel like Deborah’s central character Winnie has so many great insights on adolescence that make a sixteen-year-old compelling in a way I would never have expected, and Hemming is teaching me so many things about the valley that I didn’t know, even after growing up there. I highly recommend you pick up a copy of her book. It’s such a great read.
Ok, that’s it. ‘Night!