Beginner's Luck

This album was originally released in 2003. We finally got around to releasing it on Jamendo in April 2008.

Here is the original description of our album written by a friend in 2003:

Wild spirited teenagers surprise themselves decades later with this CD of close harmonies, true stories and adventures reflecting their love for life and each other.

They've made old men cry, and young women laugh, and vice versa. Their music, while almost all acoustic, is diverse in styles, from instrumental to A cappella, from story songs and love ballads to quirky autobiographical tales. After 30 years of singing harmonies and writing songs together, Lindalou and Michael finally released their first collection of recordings including 5 songs by other favorite writers including Christopher Smith, Dave Carter and Loudon Wainwright III. Often requested when Lindalou and Michael perform are "The Endless Mile" by Julie Snow and "The Bramble And The Rose" by Barbara Keith, also on the album. But it's their original songs that tell their stories and open up their journals, should you care to take a listen.

Also playing on this album are Christopher Smith on mandolin and banjo, Terry Ann Gillette on fiddle and violin, Doug Harman on cello, Jimmy Bunch on dobro and Darryl Webb plays drums, bass and electric guitar on one track.

Songs co-written by Lindalou and Michael Ryge, except track 3 by Dave Carter, track 4 by Barbara Keith, track 8 by Julie Snow, track 10 by Christopher Smith and track 12 by Loudon Wainwright III. Only tracks written by Lindalou and Michael and Christopher Smith are available on Jamendo due to copyright. The other tracks are availble along with the full album, for sale, or listening to clips here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/llmr

We hope you'll check it out and consider buying the album! Thanks for supporting independent musicians!

Here is the track list from the original album:

1 Beginner's Luck
2 Code of Kindness
3 Gentle Arms of Eden
4 Bramble & the Rose
5 No Expectations
6 McNevin's Toothache
7 See Us Through
8 The Endless Mile
9 Strawberry Jam
10 Apple Sauce
11 Nothing Missing
12 Between
13 Alderly Edge
14 Dueling Sofas
15 Wait and See
16 I Don't Mind
17 McNevin's Toothache Reprise

Note: When we first released our album on Jamendo, the tracks were inadvertantly published in the wrong order which we felt needed to be corrected since the order of our original songs was important to the continuity of the album. The only way to correct it was to delete the whole album from Jamendo and re-upload it. This unfortunately caused us to lose a nice review we got the first day it was released here. If you enjoy our album we'd love to hear from you and look forward to more reviews!