BOISTER

2010-03-07T11:32:00.000-05:00

Boister is band of the month at Germany's Next Big Thing. Here's the podcast featuring Anne discussing her songwriting process and working with legendary producer Jim Dickinson.

2010-02-26T05:37:00.001-05:00

2010-02-25T14:55:00.002-05:00

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/AnneWatts

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Boister

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/AnneWattsBoister

2010-02-23T17:37:00.000-05:00

Boister on Germany's NBT podcast, Feb 23rd, 2010
http://nextbigthing.libsyn.org/index.php?post_id=585620

2010-02-21T11:10:00.000-05:00

Anne will do a short set with Boston's Session Americana, Saturday March 13th...at the beautiful and intimate Stoltz Listening Room upstairs at the Avalon Theatre in Easton MD. We'll do some Boister, some covers, and a brand new version of David Fair's "Ride Called the Middle of the Night." Here they are doing a classic Townes Van Zandt tune.

http://www.sessionamericana.com/index.php?page=video&display=413

for tix:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/172510

2010-02-14T11:36:00.000-05:00

Happy Valentine's Day

Hot Snow

by Doug Retzler

www.artandeffects.com

2010-02-05T14:09:00.000-05:00

Review of Boister's Some Moths From Germany's Next Big Thing: "A near perfect release........."

Ah this delightful disturbance, this redemption in the darkness. Do you know how ghostly carnival lights seem, from a distance, on a rainy night? This is the soundtrack to that feeling.
Produced by legendary maverick/storyteller Jim Dickinson, who once channeled the sweet twilight of Big Star into something eternal, this collection, seems to be ancient Pop, perhaps even tomorrow’s Americana, Though with wonderful contradiction, there is a fragmented European soul breathing between the lines too.
It starts with a languid gasp perhaps, sigh, definite slow motion thoughts catching up to the moment; the music subtly builds, the room the picture fills with detail, the story unfolds ragged yet elegant. Funeral music that makes you feel very much alive.
Then a lullaby morphs into a sly grin take on Brecht; the band swaggers, the curtains, windows, thrown open onto a vibrant street gathering, a party full of tension.
Then a drum thing that seems to be slowed fractured down sympathy for the devil grooving into horns and guitar, washing up against the vocals, then without noticing we have slid into a perfect rock song sway, a gift with gentle hooks that we will be humming months from now.
These are tunes that are built fragile, crafted intricate standing there, the title track: quick take a snapshot before it all falls down, but it never falls down, no matter how harsh the rhythms that swirl around it, rudely affectionate.
Then the weirdest thing: I hear the east, the far east, not east America, but also: I hear almost a ska thing going, I hear the islands, come on dance and Thank You.
Then invited into this strange tent at this strange market, we shiver into an exotic fumbling before the band throws another cruel ballad or three our way, and as they are wrapped in the most beautiful melodies, we catch them easy, we are captured easier.
Layered and complex, yet never contrived this is a near perfect release.
http://www.boister.net
Catch tunes from this release on the NBT Podcast going out on the 23^rd Feb 2010
http://nextbigthing.libsyn.com/

http://nbtmusic.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/the-nbt-review-48/

2009-12-07T09:54:00.002-05:00

Here's a fun Dutch review of Boister's Some Moths from this week and another eloquent Google translation. We are not commonplace in musical collective face.

http://www.keysandchords.com/page6/cds/page73_files/6f51a3af079bf14fa8e457fc782c9846-582.html

The title just speaks that we are not commonplace in musical collective face. Led by Anne Watts, who next plays the piano accordion and vocals, the band from Baltimore a sometimes strange mix of avantgardische jazzpop richly interspersed with vaudeville and cabaret-like elements. The title song is an adaptation of a poem by Bertold Brecht and radiates through the guidance of the pre-war atmosphere of Berlin. The French in the proposed 'Nantes' convinced us less. Instruments like the trombone and bass clarinet of Denis Malloy play a prominent role. Malloy yielded "Thought Bubble" an intimate atmosphere with horns instrumental work on guitar and banjo player and Curt Heavey spent two compositions on "Ocean Boy" and fingerpickin interlude "Lia". The singer is Anne who demands attention. Watts worked in a psychiatric hospital where she reportedly in a not insignificant part of her inspiration. The slightly understated vocal makes depressing songs like 'Limes', 'Thank You' and 'Old House' is impressive. The title song a beautiful piano ballad sounds a little more accessible, but the other work by the legendary producer Jim Dickinson and meanwhile lamented (see Aretha Franklin, Big Star, Replacemants ...) in his Zebra Ranch studio in Mississippi was included, deserves your attention.

2009-12-03T19:32:00.004-05:00

Jacob Hambleton Buhler's amazing video for Some Moths Drink the Tears of Elephants, and John Lewis' interview with the late great Jim Dickinson with Boister at Zebra Ranch.

2009-12-03T19:21:00.002-05:00

2009-12-03T19:12:00.002-05:00

A lovely German review. Don't ask me what it says, it makes my head spin.

http://www.rocktimes.de/gesamt/b/boister/some_moths_drink_the_tears_of_elephants.html

2009-11-24T17:24:00.002-05:00

2009-11-11T17:23:00.000-05:00

boister at an die musik, oysters and chocolate, 2 shows 8 and 9:30pm, http://www.andiemusiklive.com/EvntDtl1.cfm?&E1CNTR=3950&YR=2009&MN=11&DY=14&T=162248

2009-11-10T16:52:00.002-05:00

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf8&u=http://www.moorsmagazine.com/muziekbites/boister/moths.html
Some Moths, Belgian review

2009-11-01T13:18:00.000-05:00

An Die Musik November 14th in Baltimore.....oysters and chocolate.......lovey dovey....

2009-10-28T13:11:00.000-04:00

Boister's 13th Birthday Bacchanalia, with Lizzie Downing, Laure Drogoul, and Jenny Keith

2009-10-20T19:34:00.000-04:00

Boister on the Eastern Shore, Night Cat, Goldsborough Street, Easton, MD 9pm

2009-10-16T08:45:00.000-04:00

Swedish review of Some Moths comparing us to Cat Power and Edith Piaf
http://www.rootstime.be/CD%20REVIEUW/2009/OKT1/CD81.htm

All the Pieces Matter

2009-10-08T18:39:00.001-04:00

All the Pieces Matter

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2009-10-07T08:33:00.002-04:00

http://www.wypr.org/MD_MORNING.html#100609C1
Boister interview on composing for Buster Keaton
Here's a cute pic of David Bowie doing a mind meld with Keaton.

Keaton show on October 10th at Chesapeake Arts Center buy tickets http://www.chesapeakearts.org/

2009-10-05T22:56:00.004-04:00

Anne talks about why Neil Young matters.

http://www.baltimoremagazine.net/allthepiecesmatter/index.php/2009/09/life-changing-art-anne-watts-boister/

2009-10-05T22:54:00.000-04:00

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wypr/arts.artsmain
A couple of Boister interviews you might like, one with Lisa Morgan at WYPR's The Signal in Baltimore, on 13 years together, the other on Buster Keaton with Tom Hall on their Maryland Morning show.

2009-10-02T21:17:00.001-04:00

Boister Does Buster at the Chesapeake Arts Center, Saturday, October 10th, Hammonds Lane Theater, Brooklyn Park, MD. FREE! Thumbs up from Roger Ebert who hosted our screening at the Virginia Film Festival. One of Keaton's finest and most hair-raising films. http://www.chesapeakearts.org/

2009-09-30T21:46:00.001-04:00

Hey Friends and Lovers of all things Boister,

Well that was too much fun! I think we'll just keep the oysters and the chocolate flowing. September 26th, we paid tribute to the late great Jim Dickinson, our dear producer and friend, and also celebrated our 13th birthday, at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore. Guests included Liz Downing, Caleb Stine, Laure Drogoul, David Beaudouin, and Jenny Keith. The crowd ate Boister oysters shucked by the stunning John Lewis, got the first Boister cd for free, ate cake, and heard us loud and swampy in honor of you and the muses.

THE BOISTER SITE: is created by charles emmett freeman (charlesemmettfreeman.com) and is mostly archival..enjoy...for more info, become a fan on Facebook or visit us on myspace.

EUROPEAN PROMOTION: www.hemifran.com

THANKS: Lawrence Bertoldi, sound man, producer, friend, Caleb Stine, honey voice, Liz Downing, syrup voice, Laure Drogoul, worm goddess, David Beaudouin, Dickinson conjurer, Jenny Keith, siren.

UPCOMING SHOWS: October 10th, live score to Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill, Jr, Chesapeake Arts Center, Brooklyn Park, MD

October 24th, Night Cat, Easton, MD

November 2nd, Stoop Storytelling, Center Stage, Baltimore, MD

November 14th, An Die Musik, Baltimore, MD (oysters and chocolate)

2009-08-18T12:35:00.001-04:00