Miss Ohio

May 11, 2011

Our new EP “Called and Raised” has been released for digital download. While you’re there, help yourself to a free download of our 2008 LP “Low”.

Here is the link: http://missohio.bandcamp.com

Here are the details:

“Called and Raised” was recorded mostly live in one day by Wayne Dorell at the Pigeon Club in Hoboken, NJ (www.pigeonclub.com). The players are David Wilson (guitar and vocals), Jim Kaznosky (guitar and backing vocals), Ed Roessler (bass), and Brandon Loikits (drums). Satish plays trumpet on Railroad Line. It was mixed and mastered by Greg Thompson (www.injuredear.com).

(Source: ep)

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April 1, 2010

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Here’s an acoustic demo of the song “The Last of Your Kidnapped Brides”. A lovely full band version of this appears on our CD Low. This one suffers from the absence of the B3, the Pigeon Club’s beautifully out of tune piano, and Mia Riddle’s backing vocals, but the general structure of the song remains unchanged.

I wrote the song after seeing a documentary about these women in Uzbekistan who are kidnapped and forced to marry. The documentary looked out how many of the women eventually settle into their marriages and end up relatively happy. In the end, they allow their own daughter’s to continue the cycle. The lyric is intended to be a daughter addressing her mother as the moment of her kidnapping approaches.

Next upload will feature Jim Kaznosky on vocals!

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Filed under: Miss Ohio Low Kidnapped Brides Pigeon Club Mia Riddle

March 24, 2010

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Way back in 2003 or so, we went to record our demo at the Pigeon Club in Hoboken, NJ. We hadn’t been playing together for very long. Some of us had never been in a recording studio before. We recorded 5 songs live in one day and used that demo to hustle gigs around NYC. We sound nervous on the recordings, but there’s a certain charm to the session.

Here is one of the songs. It’s called Girls in Skirts. We still play it, but it’s become much looser and noisier than this version.