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The Trouble With Love - CD
With its unique lyrical explorations of universal themes in the 'Acoustic Pop Rock' style, Linda's spirited debut album, The Trouble With Love is testament to the truth that Independent Music can deliver hit songs.
Features Linda's song "Call Me Crazy" which opens the Columbia TriStar film "Implicated" starring William McNamara, Amy Locane and Priscilla Barnes. (There's even a brief scene starring the brother of a famous Clinton!)
As might be expected, there are songs about love's difficult side; "Happy Again," "Your Words," "The Trouble With Love" and "To Her."
There's a sweet and simple track called "Mr. Harper" written after a trip to Folk Music Center, a store started by world fok musician Ben Harper's grandparents. Linda visited the store with her five year old son, and a kindly young man gave the pair a 'tour' of all the instruments. "What is this called?" What does it sound like?" they asked. As it turns out, it was Ben Harper's brother Joel who had given us this wonderful tour. Joel is a published poet, and book author.
Features Linda's song "Call Me Crazy" which opens the Columbia TriStar film "Implicated" starring William McNamara, Amy Locane and Priscilla Barnes. (There's even a brief scene starring the brother of a famous Clinton!)
As might be expected, there are songs about love's difficult side; "Happy Again," "Your Words," "The Trouble With Love" and "To Her."
There's a sweet and simple track called "Mr. Harper" written after a trip to Folk Music Center, a store started by world fok musician Ben Harper's grandparents. Linda visited the store with her five year old son, and a kindly young man gave the pair a 'tour' of all the instruments. "What is this called?" What does it sound like?" they asked. As it turns out, it was Ben Harper's brother Joel who had given us this wonderful tour. Joel is a published poet, and book author.
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If I Only Had a Minute - CD
Linda Geleris demonstrates depth, imagination and musical versatility in her sophomore release “If I Only Had a Minute.” There are songs about longing, leavin’, lovin’, living and lamenting the loss of departed friends and family members. The mood swings from serious to sweet, and from sorrow to sublimely silly. You will find good ‘old fashioned rock and roll,' a tender ballad, a country song (“Naked”) and even an ode (to “Art Garfunkel’s Hair.”)
“My Version of You” is about her immigrant mother, who arrived on American soil as a teenager during the late 50s. With little information from her ‘proper’ mom, Linda uses her ripe imagination to ‘create’ her own version of what her mother might have been like at that age, in those “Happy Days,” “James Dean” times.
“Close to My Limit of You” is a bluesy rocker, which was Linda’s musical answer to an insensitive remark. She parallels in song the sentiments in the movie “I Love You to Death” in which Tracy Ullman inadvertently saves her husband’s life by lacing his spaghetti with sleeping pills before shooting him. His circulatory system slows down just enough to prevent the sudden fatal loss of blood. Oh the joys of humorous, non-lethal retaliation in song!
Sweet Eleven crystallizes the bittersweet moment in time when a parent realizes that their ‘little one’ is entering new territory. The epiphany occurs as mother and child sit “indian-style on the bedroom floor in a pile of childhood treasures” suspended, if you will, between the innocence of grammar school and the wonder of the ‘tween years. The milestone significance of the moment is realized amid the otherwise mundane tasks in the second verse:
"I stack up the clothes that have grown too small
As we talk of homework and basketball
Could be any old moment from a thousand days
But the tug in my heart tells me different
This is Sweet Eleven."
Enjoy the music!
“My Version of You” is about her immigrant mother, who arrived on American soil as a teenager during the late 50s. With little information from her ‘proper’ mom, Linda uses her ripe imagination to ‘create’ her own version of what her mother might have been like at that age, in those “Happy Days,” “James Dean” times.
“Close to My Limit of You” is a bluesy rocker, which was Linda’s musical answer to an insensitive remark. She parallels in song the sentiments in the movie “I Love You to Death” in which Tracy Ullman inadvertently saves her husband’s life by lacing his spaghetti with sleeping pills before shooting him. His circulatory system slows down just enough to prevent the sudden fatal loss of blood. Oh the joys of humorous, non-lethal retaliation in song!
Sweet Eleven crystallizes the bittersweet moment in time when a parent realizes that their ‘little one’ is entering new territory. The epiphany occurs as mother and child sit “indian-style on the bedroom floor in a pile of childhood treasures” suspended, if you will, between the innocence of grammar school and the wonder of the ‘tween years. The milestone significance of the moment is realized amid the otherwise mundane tasks in the second verse:
"I stack up the clothes that have grown too small
As we talk of homework and basketball
Could be any old moment from a thousand days
But the tug in my heart tells me different
This is Sweet Eleven."
Enjoy the music!