Sweet Jesus, when will Kendra Smith make another album?

XP - Amazing! Thanks.

heh, sorry tyler... also your sampler is excellent!

sweet jesus, when i will get some credit for this! jk, i hope you enjoy. it was fun to make. someone should put it out for real! on vinyl or something. it'd sell in the dozens!

this is cool, thanks! I haven't heard any of those live solo songs at the end of your sampler (they're from Terrastock, right?) so I look forward to hearing those.

yeah that's the terrastock performance. last song is uhhh pretty intense. a capella!

Saw that performance -- it was definitely unusual.

did she walk offstage throwing copies of Walden into the audience and riding off into the sunset in an Amish buggy? fitting that the last songf she performed there seems to be a cover of Hank's "Ramblin' Man".

the lineup for Terrastock 2 seems amazing though. Fifty Foot Hose? Silver Apples? too bad I wasn't cool enough to be there (at the age of 10).

I look at the lineups of past Terrastocks and just cry...

There was a lot of spectacular stuff going on in that second one -- my one key regret is that I was sitting watching Tom Rapp tune up not fully appreciating that Batoh was killing it one room over. I've been lucky enough to catch all the Terrastocks except the first and third.

.... aw, thread bump got my hopes up that someone had managed to lure her into a studio somehow

^^ will def check out sampler, tho! FWOD was pretty great, but The Guild of Temporal Adventurers is where my heart lies.

yeah, putting this together, i think the guild stuff is my fave thing by her too.

The Guild of Temporal Adventurers is where my heart lies.

yes. and thanks for the mix, tw! have most of it, but looking forward to the live tracks.

yeah, if there's interest, i can post that whole recording...

yes plz

.... aw, thread bump got my hopes up that someone had managed to lure her into a studio somehow

― zappi, Thursday, 12 May 2011 17:22 (1 hour ago)

<3 u tyler though, all this stuff still needs reissues!

yeah it is crazy that some label hasn't at least done an Opal retrospective.

i was under the impression there was a huge roadblock to opal reissues in the shape of one d. roback but that might be idle gossip

whenever I go into a shop, Early Recordings is the first thing I look for, on vinyl or CD. I've had it on cassette since the 90s & on CDR/vinyl-rip FLAC since then, but still, it is a knee-jerk reaction at this point. I've seen it behind the counter at a few places, but still holding out for it in the general collection. TBH I kind of hope I never find it b/c it would ruin the fun.

so regret selling my CD...

i was under the impression there was a huge roadblock to opal reissues in the shape of one d. roback but that might be idle gossip
any more info on this? like, does Roback think the Opal stuff is no good? Rain Parade was reished a little while back, right?

finally got around to posting that full terrastock performance for those who are interested: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/7011016025/kendra-smith-live-at-terrastock-ii-april-17

Too kind of you!

thank you, sir!

tho I do have to admit that I always get a slight case of "just maybe" palpitations whenever this thread surfaces on 'new answers.'

ha, yeah. i'd be surprised if she came back, but who knows? maybe she's waiting for someone to ask?

http://www.youtube.com/embed/N6g1IvcwL5Y

dunno what happened to the auto-embed, that is an official SST video for 'Happy Nightmare Baby" (the song).

nice! never seen that. funny that hope sandoval is in there in the intro. smiling, even!

nice! never seen that. funny that hope sandoval is in there in the intro. smiling, even!

oops? technical difficulties on this thread!

never seen this one before, cute footage of Kendra & Roback

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEamS2sQO9Q

IMPORTANT UPDATE

Kendra Smith wrote a review in the new issue of Bull Tongue, a long and loving tribute to a Tuvan singer's album from 2005 or so? Great piece. Welcome back Kendra!

ha, missed this ... good to know she is still out there somewhere.

I say this every morning when I wake up

<3

hey tylerw, still thankful for you posting that Kendra sampler a few years back.

!!!!!!!!!!

Dream Syndicate’s 1st new album in 29 years to feature Kendra Smith singing ‘perfect coda’

!!!!!!!!!!

finally, my nine year old thread is justified

!!!!!!!

wish there was just one more song. wonder what forest they unearthed her from

tylerw, get in here ASAP

ha, i revived the dream syndicate thread last week with this news ... pretty cool! wonder if this is just a one-off or if it foreshadows more activity from Kendra in the future ... probably the former, but who knows?

I like to imagine that only Steve Wynn knows where she is, and will only call on her in the time of greatest need, which is obviously now.

http://www.planetkrypton.net/products/LS-Batman-The-Commissioners.jpg

have a vague recollection of wynn saying (maybe many years ago) that he had no idea how to get in touch with her ... i guess he tracked her down!

fan theory: Kendra is still 100% off the grid and nobody knows where she lives. after failing in his efforts to contact her, Steve hired a Kendra Smith impersonator to sing on the new album because he knows it will make for good press and he figures the real Kendra will never find out.

Coley visited her sometime in the last couple of years. She's reachable.

wow, another stray song I never knew about - a cover of Joy Division's "Heart And Soul"

https://www.discogs.com/Various-A-Means-To-An-End-The-Music-Of-Joy-Division/master/68944

ha, i'd missed that one too ... sounds pretty good!
very curious to hear her contribution to the upcoming dream syndicate record ...

I just love how that song builds up and gets heavy. Who plays that electric organ? only have the MP3 of the early recordings 2, no booklet or liner notes, Is the song on ER2 taken from the promo tape? Any other versions, live etc around? unfortunately most of old bootleg download links are broken by now.

Presumably Suki Ewers on organ, she and Kendra are the only two left from Opal I think

Great song - they played it live when they were Clay Allison, and there’s 3 (maybe more?) CA shows on YouTube with it in the set.

there are live boot versions, gimme a couple days

for yr opal/kendra/mazzy rarities need, this is the motherlode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos

er: http://www.youtube.com/@Opalstardream

good article

https://johnpstrohm.substack.com/p/diamonds-in-the-mine-1

Thank you for all the feedback and resources. I must admit that I listened to Mazzy Star when 15 years old but only discovered opal when I turned 40. What a great miss...
I hope Opal gets a special reissue maybe on Omnivore.
Digging deeper into Dream Syndicate I kind of found all the special versions and supplements of The Days Of Wine And Roses.
Any recommendations where to start? Non of those seems to include all Tracks of the others not even the 4 disc version...
https://omnivorerecordings.com/ov-129/
https://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/the-day-before-wine-and-roses/
https://www.firerecords.com/product/dream-syndicate-days-of-wine-roses-expanded/
https://www.firerecords.com/product/the-dream-syndicate-sketches-for-the-days-of-wine/

I hope Opal gets a special reissue maybe on Omnivore.

Sadly very unlikely. Pat Thomas, who had been working on possible reissues, posted this in response to a query earlier this year when some kind of CDs began resurfacing:

the short version is - I was in the middle of negotiating a truce between Kendra and David - but David wasn’t being very reasonable financially- then, behind our backs- he authorized the manufacture of these CDs - then he suddenly passed away. Posthumously we tried to come to a reasonable arrangement with David’s management (for the royalties to be divided more or less evenly) but David left instructions wanting a very large % - so no agreement was made - and these Opal CDs sat in a warehouse until they started started leaking out like this

oh well...sad, but it will add to the mystery.

off topic: when I was a teenager somebody borrowed me a tape of a band I knew and and on the second side it had his name is alive on it. Stuck on the american bands on 4ad since... including Throwing Muses etc. But nothing quiet as unique as the first three records of HNIA.