Amethyst Rose will be Steve Savitzky's
second audio CD, perhaps sometime in (I hope) 2008
2010. It is, among other things, a memorial and an exercise in
healing, dedicated to my stillborn daughter Amethyst
Rose, born August 4th, 1990. The songs are mostly about family,
fantasy, dreams, and the passage of time.
1 Eyes Like the Morning (Savitzky) 2 The Owl and the Pussycat (Lear/Trad.) 3 The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of (Savitzky) I wrote this for my father a few months before he died; he went to grad school with Isaac Asimov, and introduced me to folk music, computers and science fiction. 4 Bigger On The Inside (Savitzky) 5 Keep the Dream Alive (Savitzky) Written in 1986 shortly after the Challenger blew up on takeoff. Revised, unfortunately, for Columbia in 2003. 6 The Stolen Child (Yeats/Savitzky) 7 For Amy (Savitzky) 8 Ship of Stone (Simpson) In my opinion the best filksong ever written. If one of the songs we're singing now is still being sung a thousand years from now, it will probably be this one. 9 Rainbow's Edge (Savitzky) 10 The Toolmakers (Savitzky) 11 Paper Wings (Savitzky) 12 Millennium's Dawn (Savitzky) 13 The River (Savitzky) 14 A Talk With the Middle-Sized Bear (Savitzky/Hills) 15 Quiet Victories (Savitzky)
(Note that this is likely not to be the final list, let alone the final order; it will do for now. Suggestions are welcome. )
I always planned for this to be my second album. I originally thought I would have it finished by August, 2000, which would have been Amy's 10th birthday. After that passed with no sign even of a first album (Coffee, Computers, and Song), I started planning for 2006. Here it is, the eve of what would have been her seventeenth birthday, with CC&S still at the duplicator. Next year, perhaps.
Eventually there will be a to.do list in the working directory, which will be the place to go for definitive, up-to-the-minute status.
There is a LiveJournal community (multi-user blog) devoted to discussion of my albums, but it's almost completely inactive at this point. You'll do better looking at selected articles in my own blog.