Sub Urban Poet: the Lawyer Songs

About the Artist
Folkpop songstress Stephanie Haffner shares brutally honest, wickedly funny, excellent original songs about boys, girls, coffee, anxiety, rock-n-roll & all manner of real life — all presented with fine guitar work and (according to fans) flat-out beautiful voice. Stephanie started composing songs at a wee age when she would walk the "99 acres" between the Gallup NM school bus stop and home, singing to herself. She fell into writing songs down during a break from studies at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall school of law, and quickly began building a following around the SF Bay area. Now a legal aid lawyer in Stockton, she continues to sing and litigate. In December 2001 she released her first full-length CD: are you the one?, produced by Laura Chandler. This November she releases a second self-produced CD – of legal aid lawyer songs and other delights (sub urban poet: the lawyer songs). Stephanie’s music benefits from years of training in piano, guitar and violin, madrigal singing, and -- since elementary school -- participation in every chorus she could find. None of this training, though, explains her comedic sense of timing. It’s this package of wit, skill and unabashed honesty that’s arrested progressive, political, queer and not-so-queer audiences around Northern California & beyond.

Product Description:
15 tracks, 40 minutes, electric, acoustic, spoken word, totally solo. Music for poverty lawyers, poets, once & future sub urbanites, people who like poet songwriters with vicious wit, solid guitar work, & cut-to-the-chase vocals. Recorded at the notorious Inner Ear studio in Arlington VA (recording home for Dischord records bands Minor Threat, Fugazi, more…) by Chad Clark of D.C.’s Beautypill. Graphics by Stephanie Butts of Sacramento; photos by Stephanie’s sister – fine art photographer Andrea Haffner – from the roof of Andrea’s Washington D.C. apartment building; produced by Stephanie with help by San Francisco band True Margrit’s Margrit Eichler; self-released on Stephanie’s Gorgeous Giant Music label. Boys, girls, suburbia, redevelopment, recovery from violence, vivid poetic detail, laugh-out-loud funny, stick-in-your-head (in a really good way) pop melodies – all that, & it rocks, too!

Sub Urban Poet: the Lawyer Songs,Stephanie Haffner,gorgeous giant music,Songs for people who love songs - acoustic, electric, spoken word, VERY solo, brutal wit, cut-to-the-chase vocals - all that, & fun, too.

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Sub Urban Poet: the Lawyer Songs Stephanie Haffner Manufacturer: gorgeous giant music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00012UY58 Release Date: 2003-11-01

Tracks:

1. Not a Folksinger
2. My City (The Mayor's Song)
3. Las Vegas
4. Girl From Alabama
5. Lists
6. Nothing To Say
7. Big Heart Inn
8. Some Connection
9. Let Him Go
10. New Years Day
11. Sunshine Girl
12. Hallelujah
13. Bear Valley
14. Space
15. Hey Baby

Album Description

15 tracks, 40 minutes, electric, acoustic, spoken word, totally solo. Music for poverty lawyers, poets, once & future sub urbanites, people who like poet songwriters with vicious wit, solid guitar work, & cut-to-the-chase vocals. Recorded at the notorious Inner Ear studio in Arlington VA (recording home for Dischord records bands Minor Threat, Fugazi, more…) by Chad Clark of D.C.'s Beautypill. Graphics by Stephanie Butts of Sacramento; photos by Stephanie's sister - fine art photographer Andrea Haffner - from the roof of Andrea's Washington D.C. apartment building; produced by Stephanie with help by San Francisco band True Margrit's Margrit Eichler; self-released on Stephanie's Gorgeous Giant Music label. Boys, girls, suburbia, redevelopment, recovery from violence, vivid poetic detail, laugh-out-loud funny, stick-in-your-head (in a really good way) pop melodies - all that, & it rocks, too!

Music Album:

1. Talking Guitar Blues: The Very Best of Lonnie Donegan
2. The Hymnal
3. The Journey Home a story of hope and heritage
4. Think Twice
5. Thomas Hardy Readings by Alan Bates
6. To Let
7. Total Recall [Import]
8. Tri
9. VibraChant
10. Volume V

Music Album