Luanne Crosby

After many years of playing live with her band, the Lucky Stiff's, Luanne is shifting her focus. She will continue to play occasional private parties, benefits, and originals gigs but instead of doing club work and keeping up a weekly rehearsal schedule she has decided to spend the precious time she carves out for her musical pursuits to do two things.

The first is to catalog all the songs she's written over the years to ensure that she has a digital recording of each, along with lyric sheets and chord charts. Luanne continues to discover songs she forgot she wrote as she looks through old cassette tapes and boxes of musical papers in the goal of organizing the body of work she's created over the last 40 years. Not wanting to let some gems get lost in the shuffle of everyday life she's decided to dedicate energy toward collecting all her songs in a similar musical form and in the same physical space.

In conjunction with that project, she will be using her new Ederol recording device, and the wonders of modern technology, to begin making songwriting demos with her old friend and keyboard player Mathias in Germany, with the goal of getting some of her more commercial tunes published and on the airwaves. She is the first to admit that hauling the P.A. system at 3 a.m. loses some appeal after 30 years or so, and the idea of royalty checks in the mailbox come retirement time, sounds just about right.

Luanne will be targeting the country music scene with some of her material that has an Adult Contemporary sound as well as shopping her jazzy/pop tunes to a new generation of female vocalists and perhaps explore the world of the TV and Movie song market. Wish her luck!

(And if you have any connections, let her know!)