50¢ Songs

Baby Grand's first studio album was recorded over the summer and fall of 2018 in Southside Richmond, VA on Enfield Avenue. It is raw, unprocessed, and confessional. We gave no thought to what our sound was and how we wanted to present ourselves, we just sat down at the piano and started writing.

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Haley was still learning the keys, but began writing songs for the project, and she thought up the band name itself and the title "50¢ Songs", and Colby added the "All About Death and Other Life Lessons", a pretty direct homage to the Eels album "Blinking Lights and Other Revelations", which he loves very much.

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Recorded mostly on a pair of condenser mics, the album is prominently composed with an out-of-tune piano that came from our deceased aunt Sherry, an acoustic Alvarez Colby got in high school, and an old chord organ we salvaged from our grandmother's basement. 

 

The artwork is a bunch of cool pictures that Haley discovered while she was taking care of our Papa. Around that time, Haley was helping our Papa digitize old film, and we were spending a lot of time looking through family photographs. The back-cover image is a photograph of Tomahund Plantation taken in the 1990s by our late aunt Sherry. The front cover is a painting based on a photograph of us sitting on the deck at the cabin on the Chickahominy. That archive also became the source for many of the music videos from the period.