The Getaway Girl
The Getaway Girl is the solo music project of Courtney Leigh Jones.
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Many thanks to those of you who have come out to the shows over this summer, including the last show for Santa Cruz (till tour) tonight. I owe a lot to the city and the sweet people who have influenced and supported me musically since the day I showed up here a couple of years ago.
These past couple of years, I’ve put so much time and work and love into this project, and it is so special to hear people singing along with the songs on the EP.
Recording at Gadgetbox was one of my favorite musical moments here. Playing the Crepe Place for the first time as well. Lots of great bands, fun shows, and love for music here in Santa Cruz that I shall not soon forget. So a big thank you to everyone who has been a part of that.
Moving to Austin in under three weeks now! Very excited about the move and the prospects of The Getaway Girl in a new city so closely connected with music. I am beyond myself thinking about being closer to my family, and working on a new record and tour for 2012.
Just wanted to get on here to love on you a little bit. If you haven’t already, Give Down The Country is available on iTunes, Emusic, and is streaming on ReverbNation for your listening pleasure.
Keep it real!
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So excited to have played this incredible event yesterday! Thanks to everyone who came out to support the community!
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Post reblogged from Sup, I'm Courtney.
RT @woubzena: Finally imported all of Getaway Girl’s @CourtneyParis music into my itunes now that I can’t play the CDs in my car. Enjoyi …
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Well, I must say, playing at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival was one of my favorite musical memories to date. So joyful to play alongside such great artists as Mumford & Sons, The Decemberists, and my new favorite band, The Punch Brothers. Now that Give Down The Country is up and released and out into the world, I am thrilled to announce two new east coast dates to accompany my yearly pilgrimage to the east coast and the release of this record.
Hope to see you all out there singing and dancing. I can’t wait to see you all.
July 27th @ The Mellow Mushroom in Southern Pines, North Carolina ”Zach and Courtney Know Some Covers” All ages show.
July 28th @ Rivermont Pizza in Lynchburg, Virginia 9pm 21+
Love to you!
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For The Clouds Above
It’s inexhaustible talking to you. Your cheerful eyes, how they make the skies run blue, so blue. I feel you. It’s inexcusable letting you go. My heart, your hands, the list of demands goes on and on.
For the clouds above, they’re hanging in the sky. And all I’ve learned from love is how cloudlike it goes by. But I’ll be the girl who dazzled your world. The one that you talk about all of the time.
It’s serendipitous letting things be. My open mouth and the things it lets out, they’re far beyond me. Can you feel me?
Absolute North
The skies are getting darker and the water’s rising high. The winds are shaking ship under a falling clouded sky. And everyone we’ve brought along too terrified to act. Last night at sea, believe you me, I’m going back.
Even a drunken sailor wouldn’t just throw the anchor overboard, no! With an absolute north we can make sure no one goes overboard, no!
In the troubled waters, oh the stories that arise. The ones that keep us up at night, the ones that fan the fire. And I’ll give down the country till the ropes all beat the band. Last night at sea, believe you me we’re taking our last stand.
We could die here, and be gone forever more. The ground we’re walking on now was the ocean floor. We could die here!
Miri
Once I was young, I was certain I’d never grow tall as the fence that my hands run easily over now. What I would give to be back in that soft blue dress, the tall grass sweeping the backs of my knees, counting the hours like sheep. Summer blood, I can’t hold my breath for the next twenty five years. You and I hadn’t much in common but the wanted death of our fears. I think I’m the only lonely one here.
Now I lay back and look up at the bruise blue sky, the red matter sinking into the back of my lungs, I can reverse it somehow. What I would give to be back on that safe white ship, the big guns ready to take all the monsters back down, we could take them all.
Earth Starts Shaking
Every little thread in my hand me down dress is swaying towards you. I’m shaking in the hips and I’m going with the dips in the road, woah! I’ve been put together for you just so you know. I’m a siren for your ambulence, just turn it on and go.
And warn the people when the earth starts shaking to head for higher ground. And warn the people when the wind starts blowing to let go. I’ve never been much at all for handling the old army knife. You’ve got to take my hands and run, baby run. Run for your life!
Every other day I am sure to find a way to let you down. I’m shaking in my knees and I’m moving in the breeze I’m just fine. I’ve been put together for you just in time. I’m a campaign for your audience just turn me on and watch me smile.
I’m a walking volcano of bad news. And I’m about to lose control and let go.
Back to Blue
When your arms are growing tired and your hands are wearing worn, I will share my porch when you are down. And we can sing up to the sun, we can dance out in my yard. I know everything about this town. Take my hands, lets walk down to the water. I could wash my soul a time or two. And be it blood or love or lust left in the water, I will stay till it turns back to blue.
Take my hands where your going, up on the shore where the people we know are roaming free. I’ve searched every single vein in the vastness of your arms and I don’t know if I know what that word means. Will I ever be chained to being free?
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Hello Darlings,
It’s May, which means that in only two weeks I head into Gadgetbox Studios to record the new EP, to be released in June. (Title to be disclosed sooon) It’s around 80% written, and I am now just working on some instrumental sections, lyrical fill-ins, and transitions between songs. This is my favorite material that I’ve produced so far as a musician and I can’t wait to share it with you. I’ve been watching a lot of Star Trek lately, so expect some spacey piano interludes and story boards.
Ok, big news. The Getaway Girl has been invited to play at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival as a Troubador this year! I am beyond myself with excitement and gratitude for the opportunity to play in this beautiful venue along side some very talented musicians. Four days of bluegrass? Yes, yes, sign me up. I will be roaming around Telluride from June 14th through the 20th, and look forward to seeing all you Colorado folks out on the road. You’ll definitely catch me singing my lungs out to Mumford & Sons on Sunday…
Oh and between those two juicy calendar dates, I’ll be playing at Asana on May 28th with Christina Bailey of Honeymoon. This, folks. This is going to be a great show. We’ll probably get the party started around 8pm.
Thanks to Eastern Conference Champions and the Ian Fays for a great show at the Crepe Place last week. That was a good time. Really.
I have been rocking out to the Black Keys lately. Daily. Particularly Thickfreakness, incredible album. What are you listening to?
All the love in the world,
Courtney
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I recognize the intrigue, with writing a blog of which so far, I am the only follower via one of my other blogs. Lord, I sound like a geek. Alas, I will set out to write you the most beautiful letters I can as a blogger detailing the Getaway Girl, the project that is quickly becoming my sleep, my swing, my math problem, my puppy, and my boyfriend. Anyways. Follow. Read. Submit. Enjoy. Ask questions. We can talk about music, we can talk about the character development of Hermione Granger, you name it, honey. This project is just as much your canvas as it is mine.
I would like to thank the sweet people at the Good Times Santa Cruz for putting that lovely write-up about this project in the paper. I would also like to give a big grazie to Lee and the folks at KZSC for having me on the Rising Tide. What a blast. I certainly hope that this is the genesis of momentum for TGG, and that the best is yet to come.
I have this ongoing, endless library of ambient chords and piano breakdowns that would fit better in a broadway musical than in the middle of a 60’s throwback piano pop song, but they have to be able to dance with each other, and they are currently in diversity training. The boys I used to play with were the best with transitions. I miss them and the great state of North Carolina, but the EP would not have been what it is now without the neccessary move out to California, via life experiences, or whatever you want to call the inspiration.
I will post my musical endeavors, rants, rages and moments of light on this hurr blog. Please feel free to share and submit photos/ stories/ all things TGG, and we can make this something amazing for everyone.
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From the Good Times Santa Cruz.
Living up to her moniker as The Getaway Girl, Courtney Jones recently did something many East Coasters do: she fled to the sunnier shores of California. But it wasn’t without incident. Only one state away from her home in Virginia, Jones’ old Jeep Cherokee, which was lugging the singer/songwriter, her Yamaha mock grand piano and her acoustic guitar, beckoned for attention and started overheating. Trudging onward, a year ago she landed in Santa Cruz after, she recalls, “the welcoming committee at the border of California said, ‘Welcome to California—and just so you know, your car is shooting out black smoke!’” Along with that fixer-upper, the 24-year-old brought to town her songwriting skills she’d exercised in bands while living in North Carolina, a knack to play back anything she hears despite not knowing chords, and a determination to master the keys in original songs. And, like you’d suspect, she did so in perfect getaway form. “Once I moved out to California I was locking myself in my room for hours trying to figure out new chord progressions,” she says. The sweet result? Her solo musical project now greets listeners as a piano pop endeavor dripping in spacey ambiance and affecting lyrics that can bounce with a lighthearted bop or amble with languid fluidity reminiscent of Missy Higgins. Informed by her love of indie rock, Western nuances and ’60s pop that followed her through a cross-country journey during which she jotted down what bands she listened to in each part of the trek—Grizzly Bear in Big Sky Country, the Beatles in the Midwest—Jones’ Say it Through the Flowers EP gently cascades through four songs reflective of her new life. The last song, “Ocean” sings about a desire to live in a house by the ocean, a new welcome reality for the endearing songstress. “I think when I finally got out to California it was sort of like the light went on,” she says. “I felt like this might be a good place to camp out for awhile.” One Getaway Girl, it seems, is here to stay.
Linda Koffman. Photo by Brian Baumgartner.
