''Strings'' is an
EP recording by
Kristin Hersh, released in 1994 (see
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). It peaked at #60 on the Official UK Singles Chart.
Track listing
All songs written by Kristin Hersh except where noted.
#"Beestung" - 3:09
#"A Loon" (strings version) - 4:25
#"Sundrops" (strings version) - 4:11
#"Me and My Charms" (strings version) - 4:31
#"Velvet Days" (strings version) - 3:44
#"The Key" - 3:36
#"Uncle June and Aunt Kiyoti" - 2:33 (Kristin Hersh and W.J. Hersh)
#"
When the Levee Breaks" - 4:35 (
Memphis Minnie,
Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant (born 20 August 1948) is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the English rock band Led Zeppelin for all of its existence from 1968 until 1980, when the band broke up following the ...
,
Jimmy Page
James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Page is prolific in creating guitar riffs. His style involves various alternative ...
,
John Paul Jones and
John Bonham)
The original UK release (4AD BAD 4006 CD) featured only tracks 2, 3, 4 and 5. Tracks 6, 7 and 8 originally featured as extra tracks on the CD and 12 inch
Your Ghost
"Your Ghost" is the first track from American singer Kristin Hersh's debut solo studio album, '' Hips and Makers''. It features additional backing vocals from Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Released as a single in January 1994, "Your Ghost" reached num ...
single (4AD BAD 4001).
Personnel
*Kristin Hersh - vocals and guitars
*
Martin McCarrick
Martin McCarrick (born 29 July 1962) is an English cellist, keyboardist, guitarist and composer. Aside from being a live and recording artist, he is also a teacher and visiting lecturer in music.
Career
His first recording in the pop/rock ar ...
- cello and string arrangements
*
Jane Scarpantoni
Jane Scarpantoni (born 1960)https://www.myheritage.com/names/jane_scarpantoni is a classically trained American cello player who has played on a number of alternative rock albums.
She was a member of Hoboken, New Jersey's Tiny Lights in the mid-1 ...
- cello
*Wilfred Gibson - violin
*Perry Montague-Mason - violin
*
Gavin Wright
Gavin Wright (born 1943) is an economic historian and the William Robertson Coe Professor of American economic history at Stanford University. He received his B.A from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. with distinction from Yale University. He has ...
- violin
*Billy McGee - double bass
Production
*Producer:
Lenny Kaye
Lenny Kaye (''né'' Kusikoff; born December 27, 1946) is an American guitarist, composer, and writer who is best known as a member of the Patti Smith Group.
Early life
Kaye was born to Jewish parents in the Washington Heights area of upper Ma ...
and Kristin Hersh
*Engineer:
Paul Q. Kolderie
Paul Q. Kolderie is an American record producer, engineer, and mixer. He has worked with Pixies, Radiohead, Orangutang, Hole, Dinosaur Jr., Juliana Hatfield, Wax, Warren Zevon, Uncle Tupelo, Throwing Muses, Morphine, the Mighty Mighty Bosstone ...
, Steve Rizzo, Phil Brown and John Fryer
*Mixing: Martin McCarrick, Bill O'Connell and John Fryer
*Design:
Vaughan Oliver
The Key
'The Key' appeared on ''Secret Tracks 2'', a cassette given away with ''
Select''. "I had this instrumental to finish but I wasn't hearing any words," Hersh said in the accompanying notes. "Then I opened this ''
Krazy Kat
''Krazy Kat'' (also known as ''Krazy & Ignatz'' in some reprints and compilations) is an US, American newspaper comic strip, by cartoonist George Herriman, which ran from 1913 to 1944. It first appeared in the ''New York Journal-American, New Yor ...
'' comic from the '30s and there were all these ''beautiful'' words. So I re-wrote the song, took it apart, put it back together – and then I opened up the book again and none of those words were there. Honest to God! It was like this song was just kicking me in the head: 'Goddammit, whaddya need?! Alright, we'll write it in a comic book for ya, dipshit!'"
['' Select'', May 1994]
References
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Kristin Hersh albums
1994 EPs
Albums produced by Lenny Kaye