Rhiannon Album Discussion

[mikebise]

Since we started talking about the Rhiannon album project and its offshoots on the demo timeline thread, it looks like time to start a new one dedicated to Stevie's project based on the Welsh goddess.

This includes all the various mentions Stevie has made over the decades about the project: the album, the movie, the ballet, the Lord of The Rings type project she alluded to in 2007, etc.

I'll get the ball rolling by starting with the known songs for the project. Demoed in Early 1978 were the following songs intended for the album:

"Rhiannon"
"Forsaken Love"
"Forest of The Black Roses"
"The Maker of Birds" (Stevie's copyrighted title, not "Three Birds of Rhiannon")

"Stay Away" ~ Circulated by Maureen Loftus in 1998, "Stay Away" mentions the Birds of Rhiannon and seems to be a song for this project. It sounds like it's from 1978 as well.

Other songs? In May 1989, at the "Alice in Wonderland" release party for The Other Side of The Mirror, Stevie revealed that twenty songs had been written for the Rhiannon album, and that eleven of the songs had been fully recorded, mixed and mastered! At the time, she said she hoped to do something special with those songs, perhaps releasing them and doing a tour.

Stevie didn't say when those 11 songs were recorded, just that they were fully-produced songs.