Feelbad Ragtime
2020
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About Feelbad Ragtime
In 2019, Haley was hit by a 2002 Chevrolet Impala while riding her motorcycle and spent 26 days in the ICU burn unit at VCU. During her recovery, Colby and Sarah looked after Django (Haley's dog and Baby Grand's 3rd vocalist), and a few days after Haley returned home, Colby moved out of Enfield and settled in a small house at Tomahund Plantation in Charles City, their family home. Haley later had roommates at Enfield, but that period was difficult. It all sucked, apologies have been made, but that sort of sets the tone for what came immediately after.
After the release of 50¢ Songs, we slowly began thinking about a second project. Back in those days, we had a sort of agreement about how each one of us would take creative control over each subsequent project, and so Haley took the lead on our sophomore album "Feelbad Ragtime". It was darker, both musically and artisically.
During this unsettled stretch, Haley brought recording equipment to Arizona and built a small studio in her closet, working with an electric keyboard and a four-track cassette machine. “This Song That I Made” was recorded in Maryland with a musician named Skye, and its vocals were recorded later, when Colby flew to Arizona to visit Haley.
Recorded over the course of 2019 and 2020 at Tomahund Plantation in Charles City, VA in what is known as "The Little House", a feed barn converted into a weird, disjointed living space, "Feelbad Ragtime" was a period filled with growing pains for both of us. What emerged out of the other side was this strange, moody thing that we still don't really know how to make heads or tails of.
About 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.
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, and an old chord organ we salvaged from our grandmother's basement.
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