Sarah's New Book of Poetry - New Tour Merch

New to Sarah's merchandise table for the Book and Ballgowns Tour is her new book, The Baroness. This is her follow up to her 2005 book of poetry and original paintings titled Ravens.

Thanks to Kyall for proving images of his copy. The table of contents is as follows:

1. The Glacier (Posted to Sarah's Journal, 2004-11-04)
2. Vs.
3. Driving in Saskatchewan (Read at Wanderlust, 2006-02-13)
4. Emergency in Night Fog
5. Buddha Crowns
6. Sun I Send Down
7. The Child’s Room
8. Modern Man (Played live at Harbourfront, 2007-12-20. Song did not make the album)
9. If I Did Not Eat
10. Randall’s 50th
11. The Art Professor (About Peter? Sarah's forum post 2004-10-01)
    
12. Orphan Music (Title of her 2006 live and b-side album release)
13. Lonely Side of the Moon (Inspired by Schubert for the 2007-03-15 Art of Time Schubert show, song available via iTunes)
14. Abecedarian (Projected during Lucy Ruperts dance inspired by the poem 2007-11-08. Poem published to her blog on 2008-03-20)
15. The Grandmaster (Posted to Sarah's Journal, 2005-02-06)
16. Molly (Not to be mistaken for Pepper McGowan's song of the same name)
17. A Hundred Years
18. Equator
19. You Are The Holy Tower
20. Good Sweet Lily (Posted to Sarah's journal - 2004-12-11)
21. There I Travel
22. Widow
23. Jack-in-the-Box
24. Rays
25. Crescendo (Posted to Sarah's journal - 2006-02-11)
26. Positive Nihilist
27. One Day (Anagram of Day One, Sarah's 2004 album and song title)
28. I Dream of You
29. The Rose (Inspired by Schubert for the 2007-03-15 Art of Time show, song available via iTunes)
30. The Baroness Redecorates
31. Soliloquy (Published in The Baroness album notes, heard in Shadowland)

Favourite Baroness Songs - Poll Results

The littleslean news page has been collecting votes on visitors favourite songs for the Baroness since its release. Each song was picked as a favourite to someone of the 50 participants. Although not scientific, I think it's a small snapshot of early impression of some Sarah's followers.

Euphoria took most the votes being trailed by Sound of Water and Looking for Someone.

The lead single, Get Home, ranked mid pack.

In the basement was Goodnight Trouble and Please Be Good to Me.

The full results are posted below:

Hopeful Hearts	10 (20%)
Get Home	12 (24%)
Euphoria	16 (32%)
Goodnight Trouble	6 (12%)
Notes from the Underground	13 (26%)
Sound of Water	15 (30%)
No Place at All	9 (18%)
Please be Good to Me	4 (8%)
Willow	9 (18%)
So Many Miles	8 (16%)
Shadowland	13 (26%)
Looking for Someone	14 (28%)

Thank you for all those that participated. On something unrelated, a guitar cover of Vertigo by Derekmok has been put up on YouTube.

Sarah's Notes on Each Album Track

What was Sarah thinking? Who was doing background vocals on Looking for Someone?
Well you can gather answers from Sarah herself on the official page.

Click on the song titles and more information will be displayed for each track.

The Baroness - The Physical Copy

Today early copies of the Baroness started to arrive in the hands of some fans. Like Orphan Music, The Baroness is packaged as a Digipak. You can have a look at the album and hear some song samples and fan interviews on the video posted from the Ottawa Citizen listening party.



To note, this album does not contain any bonus tracks like her previous album have. For more notes on songs that did not make, see this post.

For those that are looking to still buy the album, I have posted links and prices in this thread.

Hear the New Album now - Flare.com

As posted on Sarah's homepage, Flare.com has the new Sarah Slean up in it's entirety in streaming format.

Give your first listen to The Baroness here:
http://www.flare.com/celebrity/article.jsp?content=20080226_155305_7096

MTV.ca might be 'dropping' the album tomorrow afternoon according to their schedule.

In anticipation of the album release Sarah was on both MTV's E2 this week and E -Talk daily doing interviews on the set of the video for Get Home. A clip of the video was shown over the end credits of E-Talk.

The Baroness - Those That Made the Cut

The official track listing was announced today with the presale for The Baroness. The tracklisiting is as follows:

1. Hopeful Hearts
2. Get Home
3. Euphoria
4. Goodnight Trouble
5. Notes from the Underground
6. Sound of Water
7. No Place at All
8. Please be Good to Me
9. Willow
10. So Many Miles
11. Shadowland
12. Looking for Someone

The 12 track album less any bonus songs is a fair amount shorter then the 16 or more songs first speculated. Some of the songs that didn't make cut or were retitled are:

• Parasol / Sweet Virgina - Availble as digital download with album preorder
  
• The Rose - "This string arrangement will break your poor heart into tiny bite-sized pieces." An earlier version of this song was recorded with Sarah's show with the Art of Time Ensemble as part of the Schubert 'Source and Inspiration Show" - Audio. Available with Lonely Side of the Moon in a special edition release of the Baroness on iTunes.
  
• Compatriots - is a manic parade through circus-ville... - Played in 2007
• My Song - Played in the Spring of 2005, recorded as part of CBC's FUSE tapping alongside Buck 65.
• Remember (Rescue?) Me - Played in 2007 No Place At All made the album.
  
• Modern Man
• The Right Words
• Please b g time Please Be Good To Me, made the album.
  

The fate for these songs and others that didn't make the cut might not be so grim.
"The singer, 30, had 23 songs to choose from which was later pared down to 18. Now the biggest challenge is paring those 18 down to 12, but Slean says she’ll find a home for all of the tracks.

“There was a lot happening in my life and I was writing a lot when I got back here,” she says. “I think I plan on making a DVD of these songs because there’s so many and having favourites is like having children. So I would like to release that a year down the line.”- Toronto Sun, December 21, 2007

*Updates made 2008-03-07 denoted by Red font.