When I first met Katy she was playing in a band called Dear Nora with her friends from Lewis and Clark College , Ryan Wise and Marianna Ritchey. Before I ever saw her perform my roomate Andrew Kaffer (Kissing Book) had already offered her a place to live at the Magic Marker House. He had heard the Katy Davidson tape and let me know that it was good and for that reason alone she was coming to live with us. Katy moved to California pretty soon after the release of "We'll Have A Time". Dear Nora changed line ups and the band evolved as well as the sound. One of the my favorite set of songs by Katy was the "Dreaming Out Loud" ep where she wrote and recorded all 7 songs in 24 hours. This almost felt like flaunting her own ability to write almost effortlessly. As I shared a wall with Katy I could hear her play guitar for countless hours just writing. She would write and record and send songs off to cd compilations, split singles, and a lot of them never found homes. We have collected on this 2CD collection all of her singles, and compilation tracks, as well as songs that never made out of the basement on "Three States: Rarities '97-'07". In celebration of this release Katy, Ryan and Marianna are reconvening in Portland to play a Dear Nora on Feb 7th at the Someday Lounge. It is also our 10th Anniversary of us running the record label. Others that are performing are Tullycraft, All Girl Summer Fun Band, BOAT, and the Galactic Heroes. It will be a time. Here are three songs off the latest release.
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Now that's a celebration I'd love to attend! Lovely release, as well.
Wait, no Kissing Book at the show? There were tales and rumors! And I believed them!
Will the Someday Lounge all-ages that night?
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