Local Blogger Kirby Lindsay wrote about our CD Release Party at the Gypsy...by Kirby Lindsay, posted 9 January 2012
On Saturday, January 14th, at Gypsy Music Café, local band Pickled Okra will perform, with The Weavils, and distribute copies of their new CD – Sounds Like Chicken, free with purchase of admission ($12 advance/$15 door.) Seating will start at 7p.
“We want it to be a party for our friends,” explained Todd Gray, who leads Pickled Okra with his wife, Paisley Gray. “We think of [the Gypsy] as our living room,” he said. What better way to celebrate the second CD by this ‘untraditional bluegrass’ band than with a party that also kicks-off their West Coast tour (in February.)
An Original Album By An Original Band
Pickled Okra actually recorded a first album a few years ago, the Grays explained, but it started as a demo, with Todd Gray on mandolin, Paisley Gray on bass and Tony Markey on banjo, performing covers of known songs.
On Sounds Like Chicken (recorded in Fremont at Mad Pants Productions,) the band will release 12 original works – each written by members of the band. Paisley Gray contributed a few of the songs, but she applauded the major contributions by her husband. “Todd’s a really awesome song-writer,” she praised, and he wrote most of them while he worked, at sea, for three months in early 2011 as a Department of Fisheries observer. “Next time we need to write an album,” he said, “I’ll go out again.”
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