" “Classic” is a term in music that reflects past efforts that ultimately showed a new area of music that had never been explored before. That is until everyone afterwards started to imitate and place within their own arrangements, hoping to guarantee a select spot within a section of history. On one hand Cashavelly Morrison offers us a proposition with this album The Kingdom Belongs to a Child.... "
Cashavelly Morrison in Women of Substance Music Podcast #217
Long-Haired Mare was featured in the Women of Substance Podcast!
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The Real Mr House Wife Reviewed The Kingdom Belongs to A Child
"The album opens with “Long-Haired Mare,” a folksy-twinged track. Immediately, I was taken with Morrison’s voice, which is beautiful, spirited, and lush."
Pink Dress Featured on Art & Culture Maven
"The debut album The Kingdom Belongs to a Child represents a confessional gateway into loss, having suffered a miscarriage in 2010 and her father last year, as well as her deeply held values, notably equal rights and empowerment for women."
Cashavelly Morrison premieres “Pink Dress” on Nerdy Frames
"Cashavelly Morrison grew up in a coal-mining town in West Virginia. She began her life in performance at the age of 3 as a ballet dancer, which continued for the next two decades until she broke her spine."
Pink Dress music video premiered on The Boot!
The new Cashavelly Morrison video was premiered on the The Boot blog!
The “Pink Dress” music video was created by Celia Rowlson-Hall, who was named one of 2015’s 25 new faces of independent film by Filmmaker Magazine and has worked with Lena Dunham on Girls and on MTV VMA-winning videos for MGMT, Chromeo, and Sleigh Bells.
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Amy Winehouse’s Last Song is Named Power
A few days ago I saw the documentary film Amy about Amy Winehouse. Other than hearing her song “Rehab” and seeing her image on magazines, I knew nothing about her until I watched the film. I have now heard all of her music, and feel foolish I allowed the tabloid image of her to deter me from seeking it out before. When the film replays her death, it’s nearly impossible to not feel a part of your heart fall away. Mine did.
The film reveals how closely Amy’s songs mirrored what was going on in her life. On her album Back to Black, there’s heartache I’m sure she hoped she’d live long enough to atone. “Love is a losing game” wants love to win. The sting of the line “I died a hundred times” wants so much to be believed. “I told you I was trouble,” asks for a kind, trustworthy soul to see the misguided attempts for love. She was only 27 and she was going through the lessons of her relationships the way any of us do in our twenties, except hers became drenched in the sickeningly oppressive celebrity culture and the hardest drugs money could buy. Amy was loving, loyal, sensitive, kind, witty, but painfully lonely. Her personality was magnetic. There’s a scene of her in the recording booth singing “Back to Black” and at the end she says timidly, “It gets sad there at the end, doesn’t it?” Smiling, with the corners of her mouth turned down, it’s as if she is asking permission: is it okay to be this sad? She proudly trots out of the recording booth, having finished her work—the work of making a space where it is okay to be that sad, knowing full well that she will be heard.
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I wrote this as a personal sequel to Joyce Carol Oates' story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been". Violence against one girl has consequences for all girls.