This is a physical CD. This physical CD comes in a lovely six panel wallet and glossy finish. (There is no cellophane wrap however, in the hopes of adding a little less to the landfills.)
Mary Crowell has returned to Mystic Fig studio to work with Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff. I Have Missed You at My Table is her fourth solo album and is a second jazzy love letter to gaming. Consider it the heir to Crowell's 2012 release, Acolytes of the Machine & Other Gaming Stories.
releases May 27, 2022
General Album Credits:
Produced, engineered and mixed by Jeff Bohnhoff at Mystic Fig Studio
Arrangements by Mary Crowell and Jeff Bohnhoff
Mastered by Justin Weis at Trakworx
Album art by Starr Weems
Album Layout by Misty Granade
All songs written by Mary Crowell except the following:
“Evil Dice Tango” (lyrics by Ian Badcoe and Mary Crowell; music by Mary Crowell)
“The Xbox Makes You Antisocial” (lyrics by Lilium Crowell and Mary Crowell; music by Mary Crowell)
Back up vocals by Maya Bohnhoff on "What's the DM Gonna Do, When I. was a Little Rat (Full Company,) Evil Dice Tango, Hat of Disguise, and When I. was a Little Rat (Vincent and Temple,)
Back up vocals by Amanda Bohnhoff on "Evil Dice Tango"
Violin/Fiddle by Amy McNally on "Hat of Disguise" and "Why I Was Late (the Pony Song)"
Cello by Betsy Tinney on "The Tiniest Bit of the Powder"
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Just how wicked can those dice rolls get? UK poet and lyricist, Ian Badcoe has some thoughts!
lyrics
Evil Dice Tango
(Copyright 2019 Words by Ian Badcoe and Mary C Crowell, Copyright 2019 Music by Mary C Crowell)
I remember my first character with some affection,
a bar-fighting barbarian--he’d no discretion--
in a brawl he could throw your paladin in any direction
and I was feeling pretty good about his progression
until we met the goblin with the stick.
The goblin was quite gobby and got right in my face
he called me unprofessional which wasn’t the case
I unlimbered my broadsword to put him in his place
I won initiative and swung with natural grace
and then I rolled a one and broke my leg.
Chorus:
Evil dice, I've got, evil dice!
They like to kill me my characters , it's not very nice...
There's no way I can fight them,
they can always devise
some way to turn the tables
and throw a surprise
disaster in the face of victory.
So then I tried a half-elven assassin
all slender blades and vials of poison but classy
with the dealing death and not averse to passing
witty remarks over a body she’d been recently outclassing
and then she tried to sneak out past the guards.
I was making checks for hiding and stealth
she was smirking in a shadow, couldn’t help herself,
and then I rolled a one and brushed up slightly ‘gainst a shelf
of armour that went crashing on the floor and by itself
a helmet went bouncing down the stairs
[ clang, clang, clatter, bash...sad. ]
Chorus
Then I thought I’d dabble in the arcane,
gather some eldritch power and go insane,
made a necromancer, used the power of his brain
and summoned shambling things that shouldn’t come into this plane.
I made him cool, and austere, he’d treat the living with disdain.
So when we came to our climactic fight.
I was nowhere near the front, it was delightful
to be sending zombies down the room to flank them on the right,
when I threw a one, but only stumbled slightly,
threw one again, trod on my robe and sprawled
into my own magic circle ....
Chorus X2
credits
from I Have Missed You at My Table,
released May 27, 2022
Mary Crowell- Lead and backing vocals, keyboards, drum programming
Jeff Bohnhoff- Guitar, bass, drum programming
Maya Bohnhoff- backing vocals
Amanda Bohnhoff- backing vocals
Mary Crowell is a singer/songwriter and piano teacher who loves mythology and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Her Patreon is
here: www.patreon.com/DrMaryCCrowell
She may be seen at science fiction and filk conventions performing and accompanying concerts on piano and occasionally clarinet.
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