Alongside her tenure with Catherine Irwin in Freakwater, Janet Beveridge Bean is also known as singer/drummer of the equally celebrated Eleventh Dream Day with partner Rick Rizzo. Dragging Wonder Lake pools a collective of like-minds both old and new (pedal-steeler Jon Spiegel; ex-EDD'er and Tortoise/For Carnation's Doug McCombs; backing vocalist Kelly Hogan) and was recorded by the ubiquitous John McEntire in seven days. Whether peeping out from behind clouds of piano-led jazz smoke (Neil Young's "Soldier"), skittering like a pooch on linoleum ("Cutters, Dealers, Cheaters") or leading from the front (ballsy rocker "My Little Brigadoon"), Bean's voice is never less than emotively suspenseful.
Alongside her tenure with Catherine Irwin in Freakwater, Janet Beveridge Bean is also known as singer/drummer of the equally celebrated Eleventh Dream Day with partner Rick Rizzo. Dragging Wonder Lake pools a collective of like-minds both old and new (pedal-steeler Jon Spiegel; ex-EDD’er and Tortoise/For Carnation’s Doug McCombs; backing vocalist Kelly Hogan) and was recorded by the ubiquitous John McEntire in seven days. Whether peeping out from behind clouds of piano-led jazz smoke (Neil Young’s “Soldier”), skittering like a pooch on linoleum (“Cutters, Dealers, Cheaters”) or leading from the front (ballsy rocker “My Little Brigadoon”), Bean’s voice is never less than emotively suspenseful.
