John Perrault
"Country Matters" | Rock Weed Music
| 1988/1995 |
"P.L.M. Before You Go" | Rock Weed
Recordings | 1997 (with Barbara Londong & Jim MacDougall)
|
"Rough Cuts" | Rock Weed Music
| 1998 | (with Mike Rodgers) |
John Perrault, The Ballad of Louis Wagner
and Other England Stories in Verse (Peter E. Randall,
Publisher, 2003) (accompanying CD)
John Perrault is a New Hampshire
teacher, folksinger, musician, lawyer, and Poet Laureate of
Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Perrault was raised in Maine and
graduated from Providence College in 1965. He received his
Masters degree in Political Science from the University of
New Hampshire. He taught school for 10 years and then obtained
his law degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center. With John
Ahlgren, he formed the law partnership of Ahlgren & Perrault
in 1982. Perrault has appeared in concerts throughout New
England singing his ballads. His music albums include: Thief
in the Night (1977), New Hampshire (1981), Tenants
in Common (1984), Country Matters (1988), Country
Matters (1995), PLM: Before You Go (1997) [Source:
Personal communication with John Perrault]
Perrault's poetry has appeared
in the Christian Science Monitor, Commonwealth,
Key West Review, and Poet Lore. His first published
collection of verse, The Ballad of Louis Wagner: &
Other New England Stories in Verse was published in 2003
by Peter E. Randall, Publisher. Perrault's latest collection
of poetry, Here Comes the Old Man Now was published
by Oyster River
Press in 2005.[Source: Ballad
of the Barrister & Personal communication with John
Perrault]
Jeff Talmaldge
"Secret Anniversaries" | Bozart
Records | 1999 |
"The Spinning of the World" | Bozart
Records | 2000 |
"Bad Tattoo" | Bozart Records |
2001 |
"Blissville" | Corazong Records
| 2006 |
Richard Ellers
| "Love Songs, Ballads and Broadsides"
| Sharx Records | 2006 |
[Richard
Ellers's CD] [Richard
Ellers]
Stephanie Haffner
"sub urban poet: the lawyer songs"
| gorgeous giant music/BMI | 2003
Folkpop songstress Stephanie Haffner sings
about boys, girls, coffee, anxiety, redevelopment, suburbia,
rock-n-roll & all manner of real life, along her guitar
work. Haffner started composing songs when she walked the
"99 acres" between the Gallup New Mexico school bus stop and
home, singing to herself. She started writing songs during
a break from studies at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall school of
law, and began singing around the San Francisco Bay area.
After law school, she moved to Stockton, and began contributing
to the Stockton and Sacramento music scenes while holding
down her day job as a legal aid lawyer. In 2003 she released
the self-produced CD, 'Sub Urban Poet: the Lawyer Songs,'
a minimalist, solo, political, acoustic-electric-spoken word
follow-up to the acoustic lovelorn pop of her 2001 debut,
'Are You the One?' In 2004, Haffner relocated to Southern
California where she dropped out of law practice and singing
and took up law school teaching. She has now resumed the practice
of law and supervises the housing/consumer unit of Neighborhood
Legal Services of Los Angeles County.
Haffner informs us: "My City (the mayor's
song) was written around 2 a.m. while working out the theory
of the case in a motion for preliminary injunction for Price
v. City of Stockton, a redevelopment suit that resulted
in a published opinion at 390 F.2d 1105 (9th Cir. 2004). Hallelujah
reflects on the circumstances of the same case--months after
winning a preliminary injunction that ordered Stockton to
stop using code enforcement as an excuse to shutter residential
hotels & displace their residents unless it also gave
substantial relocation assistance. Of course, the injunction
did not stop all the closures (though it did halt some)--or
other run-the-bums-out measures." [Personal communication,
Stephanie Haffner, October 7, 2006]
