Kristina Olsen Recordings
Click on the artwork to see liner notes.
Track Listing
- Sweet Stillness
- Big Leg Blues
- There Is a Bird
- Don’t Wake My Love
- Room for Three
- The Return of Gravity
- Did You See My Friend
- Flowers of the Wild
- Sometimes
- Waited to Find This
With topics as diverse as menage a trois, a gentle acceptance of death, the ponderings of the return to gravity from fantasy, and the view of a fast world from under a front porch. And of course new love, but from the perspective of an old body. And a blues about big thighs. Fresh, weird and familiar all at the same time. Just like this world we are in!
Track Listing
- Maybe Better
- Tango Flood
- Chemistry
- I Forgive Myself
- Pre-Heat The Oven
- You Blow My World Apart
- In This Ancient Game
- Listening To Your Mouth
- Live Man In The Dead of Night
- Practicing Walking Away
“Playing music with Pete is like opening the gate to a race horse. There is no musical style that can stump him and he seems to revel in musical challenges!”
Track Listing
- Sometimes It’s Enough
- New Love
- More Fun Than You
- If I Stayed
- It’s Your Go Find It
- How I Love This Tango
- My Father’s Piano
- In Your Darkened Room
- Prayer Flags
- The Truth of a Woman
- When You Came to Me
- A Good Friend Like You
- Your Other Arm Was Pointing
- I’m Keeping This Life of Mine
- Cry You a Waterfall
- Look Out
- I Can Not Live Without You
- In the Unlikely Event of Rain
- Don’t Wake My Love
Take A Break Productions (2012).
These are the songs that are imbedded in her memoir ‘They Paid Us in Tub Time‘ now available for download. Ten of the songs have never been recorded before and nine are new arrangements of Kristina’s songs
Track Listing
- Something Tells Me
- Hey Did You Ever
- That’s a Secret I’ll Keep
- Move On
- Quiet Blue
- I Had Never Been Out of the Ghetto
- Loves to Let Him Ride
- You’ll Spoil My Chances
- Fixing Up the House
- Mr. Right Now
- Pirate
- This Old Train
- Didn’t Think it Would Happen
- Tonight
Take A Break Productions TAB 2011 (2008).
Kristina’s Long-Promised Blues CD!
Recorded live in studio in northern New South Wales, Australia with mandolinist Al Hughes and drummer Scott Hills.
Track Listing
- It All Gets So Peaceful
- A Bruxa
- State of Grace
- In Your Darkened Room
- Michael and Julia
- The Cloak
- Bown’s Lament
- Jenny Pearl
- Proximity
- Three Circus 3
- Time to Let Go
In Your Darkened Room’s basic tracks were recorded on Kristina’s friend Alison’s organic farm in Mullumbimby, NSW, Australia & features Peter Grayling (cello, mandolin), Paul Elliott (Violin), George Butrumlis (accordion), Ed Johnson (harmony vocals).
Track Listing
First Set
- Fallen Bicycle
- Hey I Want That Back
- Portsoaken
- The One That Didn’t Get Away
- Dance Camp
- How I Love This Tango
- Sweet William
- Peter’s Introduction
- Raphael & Hillary
- Thanksgiving
- Thankful
- Willson’s Promontory
- Tony’s Sax
- Lesbian Dream
- Last Night
- Projectionist Job
- Taste of Summer
- The Weekend is Here
Second Set
- Life Drawing
- Truth of a Woman
- Touring England
- The Man with the Bright Red Car
- TV Free America
- Better Than TV
Take A Break Productions TAB 2009 (2002).
All Over Down Under was recorded live during a week of concerts in March 2000 in Australia with Kristina Olsen (guitar, steelbody slide guitar, concertina, sax & vocals), Peter Grayling(cello, mandolin), George Butrumlis (accordion).
Track Listing
- Spend the Whole Night With You
- The Truth of a Woman
- Rainy Night in Chinatown
- The Yellow Piper
- Phoebe’s Iceberg
- Part Time Love
- Headlights on the Highway
- If I Stayed
- I am Ashamed
- Between this Woman and this Man
- Big O
Take A Break Productions TAB 2009 (1999).
With Kristina Olsen (guitar, steelbody slide guitar, hammered dulcimer, concertina, vocals & pizza box!)
Peter Grayling (cello, mandocello, mandolin & harmony vocals).
Track Listing
- The Night He Left
- Already Gone
- I Don’t Want to Be Your Friend
- Stay in Love With You
- Heart Hill
- Eight Short Minutes
- Pillow Talk
- The Three Bears
- A Good Friend Like You
- Uh Huh
- Brownsville
- My Father’s Piano
- I Cannot Live Without You
- Live Intro
- Wish You’d Stop Doing So Well
- Battleplan
- Keep Left
With Kristina Olsen (guitar, steelbody slide guitar, concertina, piano, sax & vocals), Peter Grayling (cello, mandocello & harmony vocals).
Track Listing
- Walking Blues
- Love, Kristina
- Folding Bicycle
- Hurry on Home
- Roomates
- The Kind of Mood I’m In
- If I Could Tell You
- Dangerous
- In My Arms
- Proposal
- Live Man in the Dead of Night
- Something to Despise
- Guitar Camp
- Your Little Brother Sure Can Dance
- Gay Friends
- The Power of Loving You
- Prop. 187
- Maria
- Alaska
- Come On in My Kitchen
- T.V Free America
- Better Than T.V
- Gila National Forest
- Cry You a Waterfall
Philo/Rounder PH1195 (1997).
With Kristina Olsen (guitar, steelbody slide guitar, piano & vocals), Nina Gerber (guitar), Ed Johnson & Kim Scanlon (harmony vocals), Al Petteway (guitar).
Track Listing
- Hurry on Home
- Angel of Death
- The Man with the Bright Red Car
- I Don’t Care What You Say
- Love is a Sometimes Thing
- It Feels So Good To Be Free
- He’s Still in Love With You
- Love isn’t Safe
- Uh Huh
- My World Falls Away
- I Just Want You to Hold Me
Philo/Rounder PH1175 (1995).
With Kristina Olsen (guitar, steelbody guitar, concertina & vocals), Nina Gerber (guitar), Ed Johnson, Kim Scanlon, Paul Kamm (harmony vocals), Cary Black (bass), Jim Rothermel (sax), Joe Craven (percussion, bike bell ratchet, fiddlecase, mouth hat & bongo), Nova Devonie (accordion), Kris Yenney (cello), Kurt Rhode (viola), Paul van Wageningen (drums, pizza box & accordion case), John R. Burr (keyboards), Mike Marshall (mandolin), Keith Allen (electric guitar), Barbara Higbie (piano), Sally van Meter (dobro), Richard Howell (sax).
Track Listing
- How Can You Think That I Don’t Know
- Little Failings
- Hard Day Yesterday
- Your Little Brother Sure Can Dance
- If I Could Tell You
- Love, Kristina
- Keeping This Life of Mine
- Five Year Old
- Lucky
- The Power of Loving You
- This Bed Of Ours
- Live Man in the Dead of Night
Philo/Rounder PH1157 (1993).
With Kristina Olsen (guitar, steelbody slide guitar, concertina & vocals), Nina Gerber (guitar), Cary Black (bass, harmony vocals), Joe Craven (percussion, talking drum, fiddlecase, mouth hat), Barbara Higbie (piano & harmony vocals), Ed Johnson, Gary Mankin, Teresa Trull (harmony vocals), Kris Yenney (cello), Laurie Lewis (hardingfele & harmony vocals), Richard Howell (sax), Tim Hockenberry (trombone).
Track Listing
- How Can You Think That I Don’t Know
- Little Failings
- Hard Day Yesterday
- Your Little Brother Sure Can Dance
- If I Could Tell You
- Love, Kristina
- Keeping This Life of Mine
- Five Year Old
- Lucky
- The Power of Loving You
- This Bed Of Ours
- Live Man in the Dead of Night
With Kristina Olsen (guitar, steelbody slide guitar, concertina, hammered dulcimer, piano, sax & vocals), Nina Gerber (guitar), Cary Black (bass), Ed Johnson, Chris Webster (harmony vocals), Vicki Randle (percussion), Alison Chesley (cello), Jim Rothermel (sax), Barbara Higbie (piano), Norton Buffalo (harmonica).
Track Listing
Side One
- My Father’s Piano
- Nobody’s Fault But Mine
- A Good Friend Like You
- Breaking All The Laws
- Here & Now Forever
- I’m Keeping This Life of Mine
Side Two
- Cupid is Stupid
- The Last Time You Said GoodBye
- Capser, Wyoming
- I’m Not That Kind of Girl
- Headlights on the Highway
- My Sisters My Brothers
Cupid is Stupid (1985)
With Kristina Olsen and the Loose String Band.
Track Listing
Side One
- Freeway Lover
- Love is a Sometimes Thing
- Someplace to Put it
- Insomniac’s Lullaby
- Mother of Peril
Side Two
- It Don’t Take Too Much
- In My Arms Again
- This Old Train
- Three Little Bears
- Maria
It Don’t Take Too Much (1982)