Sweet Jesus, when will Kendra Smith make another album?

^^ 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 ...

No sign in the Dream Syndicate advance material that Smith was in contact for the new record. I think I'd prefer her to stay in legendary mystery status anyways.

Wynn said that she sings on one of the new songs

Oh, and there was one last surprise, one more perfect link to our past and completing of the circle. One of the more intriguing of the songs we recorded was a hypnotic trance and mantra called "Recurring." I had a pretty decent lyric and sang a good vocal but somehow it just didn't work. The song and the riff were cool, the band's recording was evocative and beautiful. But I began to realize I wasn't the right singer for the song. And I knew immediately that the perfect singer would be the only other person to sing lead on a Dream Syndicate song, our original bass player Kendra Smith. I was amazed and delighted that my old friend and bandmate agreed to do it and then wrote some astounding lyrics and sang a vocal that at once as true to the spirit of the song and also turned the whole thing upside down. The song, now called "Kendra's Dream" is the perfect coda to the record, tying up loose ends from the past and then opening them up again to the future.

xpost: wow!

the new song is great. nice to hear her again. Her voice has certainly deepened.

https://medium.com/@davidchiu/kendra-smith-a-musical-disappearing-act-reemerges-d62da2f271b8
pretty good overview ...

Kendra Smith will join us on stage for a few songs at our shows next week at the @elreytheatre (12/15) and @Independent (12/16) in LA and SF. pic.twitter.com/SkzPwjPRXi

— The Dream Syndicate (@_DreamSyndicate) December 6, 2017

Huh. Just saw them play Monday night, with. Dumotrucks guitarist sitting in (I think).

thread revive delivers!

pretty cool ... recent interview in uncut made it sound like new music wasn't entirely out of the question ...

I am willing it to happen