Jennifer Haase's Page

I'm all gooey-eyed and sniffly with a 24-hour sore throat I can't seem to shake. Wearing that tattered n'soft set of jammies you'd never let anyone see you in. Hair all a'tangle. Kitchen counter cluttered with pill & tincture bottles, as well as yesterday's dishes that you'd just as soon throw away than rinse clean.



So, yeah, I'm sick this weekend and I'm also still healing from a bad attitude I "caught" at our recording session this past Thursday where I pouted and cursed and… Continue

My recording engineer, Robert L. Smith (nope, NOT the lead singer for The Cure, but very very close...), and I have known each about 135 years now, give or take. When I first came to NY & started working with him on some demo recordings in his teensy little apartment in mid-town, his response to my half-finished tunes and starry-eyed chatter about a business I knew nothing about (that biz being music) was to sit quietly and nod his head. Never saying I was great, never saying that I stunk.… Continue

Many moons ago, Mike Leslie (my record producer) and I sat down over coffee at Kitchenette in uptown NY and talked about making an album together. I talked about the kind of record I wanted to make. He talked about how he'd like to help me make it. I knew I had the right producer before the cups o'joe were drained, but when we shook hands on it and he said "Now I want you to go home and write a mission statement for this record" I about died on the spot with sensitive, overly-expressive… Continue

I'm over 2 months into my making-of-my-new-indie-album fundraiser, patterned after Jill Sobule's crazy-successful recent donations drive. We've earned nearly $5,000 of our $15,000 goal and here are some things I'm learning along the way, fyi...



1. Remind, Remind, Remind. 8 out of 10 "reminder" update emails I send to my email mailing list bring me a new donation. I chit-chat about different things in the update emails, but the theme is always "here's what we've earned. please help us… Continue