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Small Potatoes and Many Hats

When you’re a small potatoes kind of act, you have to be your own booking agent, promoter and roadie–often even your own sound guy. You have to be it all and do it all. Why would anyone go to all of that trouble? Folk singer and songwriter, Lauren Crane talks about all of that before launching into her crowd-pleasing* song, Ode to Your Beauteous Gluteus. (Affectionately — so she thinks — known as the butt song.)

*Actual size of crowd and level of pleasing may vary.

Dig Those Sounds, Man

What two musical instruments would you want if stranded on a deserted desert island? Using animation to sample musical instruments galore, folk singer and songwriter, Lauren Crane shows how even the simplest instruments can inspire song. And even save you from the saber teeth of a saber-toothed tiger. Valuable information for any songwriter of any level.

Bovine Love: The Story of Irene

Wanna to hear a really moving song? We’re talking MOOOOOOVING. Folk singer and songwriter Lauren Crane talks about the behind the scenes recording of Irene, a song about the true, genuine, ab-sol-freaking-lutely dairy queen. You wanna hear how a cowbell should be played? You ever hear a standup bass MOO? 

Taller Than They Appear

Lauren Crane, Bobby Pennock, Jere Stormer and Sigrid Christiansen are Taller Than They Appear, a band of songwriters. Here performing their original song, “There’s a Nest in My Umbrella.”

Taller Than They Appear, A Band of Songwriters.
​Featuring Jere Stormer, Sigrid Christiansen, Bobby Pennock and Lauren Crane
http://​tallerthantheyappear.com.

Beauteous Gluteus by Lauren Crane

Performed by Taller Than They Appear in concert at Trinity House, February 21, 2015.

Taller Than They Appear, A Band of Songwriters.
​Featuring Jere Stormer, Sigrid Christiansen, Bobby Pennock and Lauren Crane
http://​tallerthantheyappear.com.