{"id":514,"date":"2017-02-23T07:05:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T12:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=514"},"modified":"2020-05-28T12:33:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T17:33:47","slug":"crole-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/music\/crole-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Crole River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Demo versions and a bit of history of\u00a0the Crole River songs are found at <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/charles-dermer\">my soundcloud site,<\/a>\u00a0but the CD gives the full experience.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The music is\u00a0in a range of styles:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">blues, country, rock, folk, Christian, reggae and Latin, but all American, built on heavenly\u00a0vocals over acoustic guitar, with bass and drums on 11 out of the 16 songs.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Here are excerpts of <em>I Paved the Path<\/em>, sung by Lydia Salnikova, and <em>Goin&#8217; to the Mardi Gras<\/em>, sung by Alexandra Fessenko:\u00a0<\/span><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I7kh1qOtbpw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">N.B. The CroleRiver.com website is defunct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The Crole River group was a partnership between Charles Dermer and Alexandra Fessenko to make\u00a0the Crole River album of music.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">I later employed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lydiasalnikova.com\">Lydia Salnikova<\/a>\u00a0to cover vocals on 9\u00a0of the songs.\u00a0The album includes 11 songs that I composed\u00a0over the last\u00a0many years and decades, as well as 5\u00a0that I wrote in 2016.\u00a0The Crole River album\u00a0was released in spring of 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">A\u00a0bonus track has been added\u00a0to\u00a0the Crole River album, a reprise of the song\u00a0<em>He is My God,<\/em>\u00a0in Russian,\u00a0<em>\u041e\u043d \u043c\u043e\u0439 \u0413\u043e\u0441\u043f\u043e\u0434\u044c, <\/em>which was\u00a0adapted, arranged and performed on piano by Lydia Salnikova.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-611\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-09.01.51-300x142.png\" width=\"522\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-09.01.51-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-09.01.51-600x285.png 600w, https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-09.01.51-768x364.png 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-09.01.51-1024x486.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Crole River Album Song Set List<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Some of the history of Crole River songs can be found on the notes to the demo versions of the songs at my <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/charles-dermer\">soundcloud<\/a>\u00a0site.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 426px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-514-1\" width=\"426\" height=\"240\" autoplay preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/video_278001109236647.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/video_278001109236647.mp4\">https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/video_278001109236647.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">This is a fragment of the Ballad of Annie and Eddie, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">sung by Alexandra Fessenko.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Crole river chord, style, and lyric sheets:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/CROLE-RIVER-chord-and-style-charts.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">CROLE RIVER chord and style charts<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Other documentation related to Crole River is in the protected link. To access <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/music\/crole-world\/crole-river-confidential\/\">content<\/a>, please use the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/contact\/\">contact<\/a>\u00a0form. The lyrics and charts to the Crole River songs are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/literature\/lyrics-for-crole-river-songs\/\">here<\/a>. The CD art is reproduced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/arts\/crole-river-album-art\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Love Song, from the Crole River album\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ew1ez2f_ZYc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">I have posted some music videos with Alexandra Fessenko and myself on youtube of what was to become the Crole River sound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Crole River: Hard Dirt Trail\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7_2YoEDgtYk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demo versions and a bit of history of\u00a0the Crole River songs are found at my soundcloud site,\u00a0but the CD gives the full experience.\u00a0The music is\u00a0in a range of styles:\u00a0blues, country, rock, folk, Christian, reggae and Latin, but all American, built on heavenly\u00a0vocals over acoustic guitar, with bass and drums on 11 out of the 16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":114,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-514","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions\/1868"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}