The Songs Thereafter

Here is a home video by FolkYouPhilly.com of a song I wrote in...

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:38:00 -0500

Here is a home video by FolkYouPhilly.com of a song I wrote in November with some living room music magic. Hope you enjoy!

“The Forgiven Sighs”

Filmed/edited by Mike Baurer

Happy New Year, everyone! It’s been a little while since...

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:42:07 -0500

Happy New Year, everyone! It’s been a little while since I’ve updated this here b l o g so I thought I’d chime in with something I came across. I found a little clip that’s bringing me back to my love for Björk.

I spent some time making a lot of a cappella recordings of her songs in 2008 and this is just a short clip of one of her most beautiful tunes that feels quite appropriate at the moment, “Unravel.”

New Songs in the works:.: to come! Here’s to new beginnings, and continual uprisings and uproars…

Ridiculous home fuzzy messed up cover of The Magnetic...

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:04:48 -0500

Ridiculous home fuzzy messed up cover of The Magnetic Fields’ “Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits” ~~ one of the funniest and most wonderful songs on earth.

I just found a bunch of videos from a minitour in September....

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:56:00 -0500

I just found a bunch of videos from a minitour in September. This is my new song “Come & Go” performed at Last Bite on 9/23/10 ( a great cafe, warm people, great towns and surrounding in the Hudson Valley ) in High Falls, NY. I was traveling with friend & talented musician The Bones of J.R. Jones ( be sure to check out his music, CD in the works, but you can find tunes & info @ http://www.myspace.com/thebonesofdaveyjones :.: don’t let the band name change confuse you~ )

I wrote the song in the home of another very lovely friend & talented musician, Chris Bathgate in Michigan. Chris’ music:.: http://www.myspace.com/chrisbathgate ~ ~ while on a solo Midwest tour in August. There’s just something about lakes, the open road, questioning yourself, relationships~whatever they may be, being alone in the gravel and blue skies, new friends, new scenery ~~ that gets a song M O V I N G.

I haven’t recorded this song yet at home but here’s a live version.

take a listen & let me know what ya think!

Allison

Keeping up with the footage, here’s some from 9/12/10...

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:10:00 -0500

Keeping up with the footage, here’s some from 9/12/10 ::

my band PAPERTREES (www.myspace.com/papertreesmusic) at our 3rd year in a row playing GREENFEST PHILLY (www.greenfestphilly.org - awesome eco-friendly event!) As it goes with outdoor shows, there’s some feedback issues in the beginning, but we never stop! Here we are as a 4-piece instead of 5, playing one our oldest tunes, reinvented, “PRETENDER” ~~~

This video features:

Carl Cheeseman - electric guitar

Phil D’Agostino - upright bass

Alec Meltzer - drums

I just discovered my cover of “Woody Guthrie’s...

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:52:45 -0500

I just discovered my cover of “Woody Guthrie’s America” recorded in early 2010 :: The Akron/Family made a project for people all over the world to record their version of this song. Here is mine.

& Here is their site for the project~ http://www.akronfamily.com/woodyproject

enjoy the varieties!

“THE FORGIVEN SIGHS” 11.20.10 Lyrics were written a...

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:23:50 -0500

“THE FORGIVEN SIGHS” 11.20.10

Lyrics were written a few days ago, and then I picked up my guitar in celebration of my former weekly project, and wrote this melody and recorded it just now.

I think this could be a papertrees tune ~ I can imagine the drumbeat now.

Here’s a video of a performance of “More Than...

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:33:03 -0500

Here’s a video of a performance of “More Than Time” on October 15, 2010 at The Greenline in Philadelphia, PA. I’m accompanied by Gretchen Lohse (vocals and not in this song, but usually viola) and Brad Hinton (lap steel).

“More Than Time” was one of my song-a-week projects, a nicely light-hearted tune ‘bout being there for & believing in someone special.

Goodnight,

Allison

This song is aptly titled “Kindest of Hearts” and is...

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:29:00 -0500

This song is aptly titled “Kindest of Hearts” and is evolving into a true country tune. I performed it the night after it was written on October 15th at The Greenline Cafe in Philadelphia with Gretchen Lohse on viola and Brad Hinton on lap steel. I will be recording this for a solo record someday. Just picture the swirls of layers of sound along with it… My first song with the word ‘whiskey’ in it. Enjoy~

Welcome.

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:23:00 -0500

To those I don’t know ~ Hey everyone. My name is Allison Polans and I am a songwriter and musician in Philadelphia. Here you will find songs and snippets and videos and ideas of songs of my world as it comes…

To those who have heard me before ~ Thanks for being avid listeners of my former project “52 Songs a Year” over the last year. I appreciate your creative feedback and encouragement, and I couldn’t have done it without you. As many of my friends know, I went through something very intense in March/April and thereafter which didn’t allow me to write music and sing/play guitar for some time. I had to stop the project at Song #20 and as you can tell, they got pretty heavy in the last couple. I didn’t know how long it would be, but I’m happy to say as of July I really started to get my body back in action. I’ve written several songs since, and this new Tumblr will be the continuation of my year and beyond. In no particular order at first, but then constant, and who knows, maybe it’ll happen once a week again in the future once I’m at that point. No matter what, I just want to thank everyone for listening. Here’s to moving up from here on out.