Links (& Some Image Downloads)


Image Downloads

These four images (and many others on the site) were provided by photographer Brad Miller. To download the hi-res jpgs, right-click on the link, select "save target as" and direct your computer as to where to store the file.

533kb, 1778 x 1205 + 327 kb, 2726 x 1935 ++ 412 kb, 1468 x 1492 + + + + ++ 489 kb, 1778 x 1206

These lyric/tab sheets, in Catherine Irwin's handwriting, come thanks to HiddenOverlord.

+ "Cheap Watch" + + "Good For Nothing" + + desktop, 600 x 800 and 1024 x 768


Download the Roseamp Winamp skin (which is no longer available at winamp.com) - the best skin for mp3'in to Freakwater. (Right-click on the link, select "save target as" and direct your computer to store the file in the 'skins' subfolder of your 'winamp' folder, which is in the 'program files' folder on your C drive).

Another Freakwater 1024x768 desktop

A bootleg Freakwater iron-on T-shirt transfer. This is a 2.5Mb download. (Note: There were not any official Freakwater T's available when this link got posted. Check here to check on the availability of Freakwater merchandise.)

Links

Thrill Jockey Records, Freakwater's record label

The Billions Corporation, Freakwater's booking agency

Brita Maia's Freakwater Page, for years their only fan site on the web (hats off!)

Jim Newberry, the photographer whose 2002 Catherine images appear here (thanks to Thrill Jockey)

Morgan Geer's website. His new band is called 'Drunken Prayer'. Morgan led the Unholy Trio with Dave Gay on bass. The UT supported Catherine Irwin live as well as on her LP "Cut Yourself a Switch".

Video & Audio Streams

Stream the "My Old Drunk Friend" video at launch.com

Stream entire shows from Freakwater and the Unholy Trio (during which Catherine plays three songs) at Supersphere.com. You won't have much trouble starting these streams, but if you try to pause or move back and forth in the programs, you might get a "too many users" error message; then, the only option you'll be given will be to start the stream again from the very beginning, so be careful.

Freakwater Set List

Louisville Lip 1:13
Cheap Watch 7:45
Raised Skin 11:25
Lorraine 16:50
Dog Gone Wrong 22:15
Cloak of Frogs 28:25
Binding Twine 35:50
Good for Nothing 43:55
Kentucky House 50:50
Cry Our Little Eyes Out 54:30
All Life Long 58:55
Hero Heroine 1:06:15


Stream the interview Freakwater gave WFMU's Radio Thrift Shop with Laura Cantrell here. (The show is about halfway down that long archive page). It was recorded September 7, 2002, prior to their appearance at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City that evening. In addition to Catherine dropping the f-bomb, Freakwater performs "Flathand", "Lorraine", and "Kentucky House".

Here's an 18-minute interview (broadcast date: April 10th, 2003) Janet gave National Public Radio's Chicago affiliate WBEZ.

Articles

An academic tome from a fellow in American Studies at UVA

Concert preview blurb included here simply because it's relatively old

FW article from the second edition of No Depression magazine

Catherine article/interview, April 1998

(Different) Catherine article/interview, April 1998

Janet interview, February, 1996

Janet and Rick Rizzo interviewed in Germany, April 1997

Article in Boston Phoenix, January 1998 (with photo of Cathy labeled as Janet, whoops!)

Janet article/interview, August 1999

September 1999 FW article from Salon

1999 article from Toronto's Now mag

December 2002 Catherine article/interview from neumu.com

A Janet article/interview in the Chicago Reader, promoting the Concertina Wire LP.

Janet gets some great press, Summer 2003, from neumu.com

Catherine and Dave talk at length, Spring 2003, to heremagazine.com

Dusted Magazine gives the most thoughtful review of Dragging Wonder Lake

Hilarity from Catherine via The Onion January, 2003

An appreciation of Eleventh Dream Day

Discographies

Freakwater discography with serial #s and more cross refs than this one

A comprehensive Eleventh Dream Day discography