So it was a few weeks ago on a Saturday morning - I was cruising Space City Rock looking for something decent to do that night. Ana was going out for an anti-Bachelor party (this isnt a Bachelorette party, rather, its the outing that occurs on the same night as the Bachelor party. Its when all the girls get together to rally around the fiancee - whos stressed that her man's probably got a strippers naked self in his face.)

Well - well I dont see anything I want to do, so I started googling the names of artists playing at the various venues in town that night.

Amazingly enough I hadnt automatically recognized Maria's name. Here's what Saddle Creek has to say about her.

Though often referred to as half of the duo Azure Ray and 1/4 of Saddle Creek’s Now It’s Overhead, Maria Taylor’s talents have seen her name attached to an impressive roster of musicians. She’s popped up on Crooked Fingers’ Bring on the Snakes, Bright Eyes’ Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground, and Moby’s 18 (yes, that Moby). Her distinctive, luminous vocals provide a unifying thread through such unlikely releases as The Bruces’ Shining Path (2004), The Faint’s Wet From Birth (2004), and Bright Eyes’ I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005).

Well I love Azure Ray, and suddenly I had something to do. Yes! Go Super Unison for putting on kick ass shows in Houston.

Here's a couple of tracks from her show -

edit - by request, ive added the whole show. enjoy ;)
for lyrics check out always on the run

01 Soundcheck
02 Xanax
03 Birmingham 1982
04 Tell It Like It Is (Aaron Neville Cover)
05 Speak Easy
06 Light House
07 Leap Year
08 One for the Shareholder
09 Song Beneath the Song

Also - check out the studio version of Speak Easy at her Saddle Creek site (linked to above.)

Everyone should check out her record 11:11 - its all over the place, yet not so far from Azure that you're suprised by the directions she taken. The music for One for the Shareholder was completly written by Mike Mogis - uberproducer at Saddle Creek. The production on this track is really amazing, and makes me hope Mogis puts out a solo record with various indie singers performing vocal duties a la Dntel.

I also taped Statistics, but im not really a fan. If anyone wants to hear some of these tracks let me know and ill put them up.