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Topic: The lawsuit against Rounder and Madeleine Posted: March 30 2005 at 3:30pm |
Dear fellow fans,
I went to check out that article from the Boston herald again, and found out it's been archived and you have to pay to read the whole thing. So for the sake of the community here, I copied it and here it is. Just wondering if anybody has any further information. I see William Galison is on the email list. Any comments, Bill? http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid= 72283 Galison keeps former partner Peyroux in ‘Mind’ By Larry Katz BOSTON HERALD Wednesday, March 9, 2005 Madeleine Peyroux and William Galison made beautiful music together. Now Peyroux wants to forget all about it. And Galison can't. He has released the CD he made with his ex-girlfriend with the unintentionally ironic title ``Got You On My Mind.'' Galison is convinced it would be a popular seller given Peyroux's recent resurgence. His belief is fueled in part by the success guitarist Peter Malick had releasing recordings he'd made with a young Norah Jones. There's another parallel: Jones and her record company fought Malick's release. Galison believes that Peyroux, her management and Cambridge-based Rounder Records have used illegal tactics to squelch his indie release. Peyroux's new Rounder CD, ``Careless Love,'' appeared in September. Critics were enchanted by the way Peyroux applied her fetching Billie Holiday-like voice to songs by artists from Bessie Smith to Elliott Smith. `Careless Love'' also came accompanied by an intriguing back story. It was the first new music from the 30-year-old singer since she had dropped from sight after her widely praised 1996 debut, ``Dreamland.'' In interviews, Peyroux supplied vague explanations for her eight-year absence from the scene. She talked about a shelved attempt at a second album. She noted problems with her vocal cords. She mentioned a year spent heeding religious inclinations. But something was expunged from her recollections: her time with Galison, which included many gigs and the seven songs released on their self-produced EP in 2003. These tracks can be heard, along with four by Galison, on ``Got You On My Mind.'' Galison is a guitarist, singer and chromatic harmonica specialist whose credits include everything from recordings with Sting and Barbra Streisand to the ``Sesame Street'' theme. He's determined to get his part of the Peyroux story heard. `In May 2002, I was coming home from a gig,'' he says from his New York apartment, ``and I stopped in a little bar on Bleecker Street where Madi was playing for tips. No one was listening to her. But I thought she was fantastic. I asked if I could sit in on harmonica. She was really pleased. So I'd drop in to see her every Tuesday for the next couple of weeks.'' Soon Galison agreed to let the footloose Peyroux crash in his extra room. A romantic and musical relationship ensued. Peyroux and Galison started playing shows in New York, Philadelphia and, eventually, Europe. Even when their romance cooled, in 2003, they continued to work together - and Galison financed the recording of the seven-song EP, which they sold at their gigs. ``I was thrilled,'' he says. ``They were selling like crazy. We were going to add songs and make a full- length album. And all of a sudden, she stopped working with me. I didn't know what was going on. She became very distant.'' Peyroux signed a deal with Rounder and canceled future dates |
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