I hope this finds you very well.

I wanted to send a quick message to let you know the new CD, "dust 'n' branches ... songs from a wanderer" is now available at CDbaby.



http://www. CdBaby. com/cd/ledoux2

or click below...





The new CD should be with Itunes shortly but in the meantime, you can also download the mp3's from my CD baby page.



Remember, you can always visit my web site for direct links to buy both CD's in the UK, see my new youtube channel (touring video diaries as well as live performances) a regularly updated journal and more...: http://www. ChristeneLeDoux. com

I am also back on the roads of the UK tomorrow and hope I see you at a show! My apologies to anyone that visited a show that had been canceled. There are personnel changes underway so it seems not everything got handled. I hope to see you next time and please always check the web site for updated shows and info. Dates are still being added & updated as well as shows being rescheduled for the Fall and New year.



Have a lovely summer! I can't wait to see you again. I have a lot more news to tell you but will keep this message short today.



leibe grüße,
Christene

We only decided that afternoon on it and worked it out a couple of times - hence the lyrics. :-)

love,
Chris

It's almost here .. the new CD!
A little over a week left in duplication and it's in my hands ... yeesh!

If you would like to see me live, I'll be all over the place this Summer.

Starting with the UK, Scotland & Ireland ... moving on to Scandinavia, Australia (this may reschedule-we'll let you know) Eastern Europe and the USA...

Feel free to pass my information on to anyone you think might want to come out for a warm & cozy night of song & stories.

http://www. ChristeneLeDoux. com

The site is being updated constantly with new shows, music etc... and the link to buy the new CD will be up just as soon as it's released...!

Thanks for coming along for this ride.


I'm so happy you are here and hope we meet up out there on the roads!

leibe Grüße,
Christene

Maverick Magazine, England
Appearing early 2007

Christene LeDoux
Live @ The Chillingham, Newcastle
November 1st 2006-11-19

Christene's performance at the Chillingham in Newcastle, marked her first visit to North East, an area fast developing a name for it's many live music venues.

Christene began her set with Roses, a song which aches of loss, about her mom leaving behind her precious roses after divorce. To me, the roses seem synonymous with the familiar life which has been lost too; I will pack my things and go..I will say goodbye to you and this old house…but my garden without water will not grow…who'll care for my roses now?…I don't need much money…hell there's nothin' left of us…all the love the past 40 years…is growin' in the vines, of our backyard…..now that I'm gone...who will care for my roses? This opening song made it immediately clear to everyone in the audience that Christene's music is real, and from the heart about who she is, what she's lived and what she knows.

Christene was born in Torrington, Connecticut, home of Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher-Stowe. She now lives in Austin, Texas, by way of Nashville and San Francisco. She spends most of her time on the road, including several months of the year touring Europe both solo and with her Trio based in Sweden, The Black Sheep Girls. As a result of this life of travelling, Christene has collected many stories from the road, many of which find their way into songs.

One such song, Tumbleweed, is made even more special by the several minute long vignette which preceeds it. Plucking her guitar all the while, reminiscent of Nanci Griffith. By the time the song is over we are left in no doubt of either Christene's ability to create a seemingly effortless rapport with her audience, or that she truly is a Tumbleweed! I am a tumbleweed, I just go with the breeze. I am blowing, blowing, blowing where the road and the wind they take me.

Highlights of the evening for me included another new song, Lonely Stranger, with hauntingly beautiful lyrics, which brought to mind Sarah McLachlan; Are you lost, lonely stranger? Do you need a safe place to go?……Here's a shoulder…here's a pillow…here's an ear you can fill, I won't judge…..I'm no judge.

Whiskey Night brought a more upbeat song, which essentially is about enjoying what we have while it's there. Just a little whiskey on a long night…gonna have ourselves a party...doesn't really matter that we've only got tonight, time is all we got……Come on an let your hair down and the whiskey warm you up…I don't pretend this is true love, just another whiskey night.



One of Christene's most requested songs it seems, is Sweet Patty, about her mom being left in an orphanage as a little girl. I'm not sure there was a dry eye in the room as this story unfolded in front of us; I'm just a little girl with my skinny legs, without a family in this orphanage. My ma she left me a note today, sewn in my favourite doll and I'm sad cuz' I left it in the rain….



Songs such as Open Wound, Angel You've Come too Soon, Born To Roam, Wanderin' and a cover of the wonderful song Landslide, continued the evening, all interspersed with her stories and humour.



For the encore we were treated to a rockin' version of Dear Mr. President, and finally one of my favourites from her current Cd (Little Lighthouse), The Entertainer, about a real woman she met on the road. As Christene sang the chorus, ……Don't be sad she says cuz I'm not alone….when I feel sad and lonely, I call music my home, she could be singing about her own life.



The evening ended much too soon, but the audience was left in no doubt that they had just experienced something truly special, and that Christene LeDoux is destined for bigger things. She delivers both stories and songs with such passion and conviction that you can't help but know she is onto something good. I was left in no doubt that to see Christene perform live is about more than just live music. It is about being given a unique opportunity to understand who the person behind that music is, and to share for a brief time, her life on the road and be a part of that journey.

That road is sure to bring her back to the UK next year when her new Cd "Dust and Branches….songs from a Wanderer" is released and I for one will be looking up a date near me.