This Ordinary Day
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These songs were recorded fall and winter of 2020-21 Just me and my guitar. Thinking on all the ordinary words, deeds, days. Ordinary times with my daughter, –tunes, walks, photos, wishes.
There are women of resistance here from another time: Emily, Elinor, Helmi and Maybelle. History repeating, persistence, of the homesick, of the lost, the wild, the muse, the painter, the singer. All the ordinary hungers, the ordinary telling, the listening, the luck.
All captured live. The ordinary sounds of a performer.
I want to thank Matthew Zimmerman for lending me the sound equipment so I could roam around the roads of old songs and new, and for mixing it all so beautifully. I want to also thank John Reinhard for kindly sending me lyrics over all the years. And thank you to Mary Overson for generously offering her poem. Acknowledgment goes to Helmi Mattson for inspiring the song I’m A Volcano and also to my mother Aili Jarvenpa for translating Mattson’s amazing poem. Helmi’s words launch each verse of this song.
And the most important thank you goes to my daughter LiLi who nudged me to make a recording of new tunes, all in English. And a big thank you to her for singing with me on the last track. And for taking the photos that appear on the jacket. This was a family DIY. All gratitude and love to her for her vision, voice and wisdom.
Ordinary days can contain the extraordinary. Grateful for them all.
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- I’m a Volcano · Lyrics: Helmi Mattson and Diane Jarvi, Music: Diane Jarvi
- Wild Peaches · Lyrics adapted from poem by Elinor Wylie, Music: Diane Jarvi
- Lucky to be Alive · Lyrics: John Reinhard and Diane Jarvi, Music: Diane Jarvi
- Lonesome Homesick Blues · Lyrics and Music by Maybelle Carter
- This Ordinary Day · Lyrics and Music: Diane Jarvi
- The Moon Was But A Chin of Gold · Lyrics: Emily Dickinson, Music: Diane Jarvi
- Practicing History · Lyrics and Music: Diane Jarvi
- Speed God · Lyrics: Mary Overson, Music: Diane Jarvi
- Another Fire · Lyrics and Music: Diane Jarvi
- Ballad of Skye · Lyrics: John Reinhard and Diane Jarvi, Music: Diane Jarvi
- Brief Wings of Summer · Lyrics: John Reinhard and Diane Jarvi, Music: Diane Jarvi
All songs Diane Jarvi · vocal and guitar
Except on Brief Wings of Summer- LiLi Jarvenpa: backup vocals
Limited Edition