This is the first time I've ever tried making backgrounds, but I made 323 yesterday, all of them Russell characters. I have them up now on Libriscrowe and
if you'd like to use any of them for anything, that's what they're there for...so feel free!
http://libriscrowe.com/BA.../backgroundsrussindex.htm
Also, at the top of my main index page...
http://libriscrowe.com/libriscroweindex1.html
is a place to click to hear my husband singing Softly As I Leave You. He's not only a minister, but also a singer and he recorded this at a studio
earlier this year. He had bronchitis that day, alas, and had to drink a lot of hot tea before he could even begin to sing, but I love the way he
sounds. I think it actually fits the song better as it's not, you know, about a guy bugging out on his woman but about a man and his wife and he's
lying in bed dying and wakes to find his wife sitting sleeping in a chair near his bed. He doesn't want her to wake and see him die. So it's a very
poignant song and Carl sings it from the heart. It's also interesting timing that I was able to get it up right now because a week and a half ago he
had the right half of his thyroid removed due to cancer. His Dad died from thyroid cancer when he was two years younger than Carl is now.
Anyway, in the removal process they had to literally scrape the nerve that controls the right side of his vocal cords and it's left that side completely
paralyzed, so his voice has been a mere whisper of sound ever since. Last Friday they injected a lot of clear gel into his voice box to fill in the
gaps and he's improved enough so that now he sounds like a gravel truck in the fog. He has a wedding to perform in a big cathedral this coming Saturday and they were concerned there was no way he'd be able to do that with his little whisper even with a mike, which is why they went for the gel. I found him a couple of days ago sitting at his computer listening to himself sing on my site. He feels like it's a real gift right now to have it
up there and has been getting so much lovely feedback from it. So I thought, what the heck, I'd mention it on here, too, in case anybody'd like to
give him a listen.
Jo
http://libriscrowe.com/BA.../backgroundsrussindex.htm
Also, at the top of my main index page...
http://libriscrowe.com/libriscroweindex1.html
is a place to click to hear my husband singing Softly As I Leave You. He's not only a minister, but also a singer and he recorded this at a studio
earlier this year. He had bronchitis that day, alas, and had to drink a lot of hot tea before he could even begin to sing, but I love the way he
sounds. I think it actually fits the song better as it's not, you know, about a guy bugging out on his woman but about a man and his wife and he's
lying in bed dying and wakes to find his wife sitting sleeping in a chair near his bed. He doesn't want her to wake and see him die. So it's a very
poignant song and Carl sings it from the heart. It's also interesting timing that I was able to get it up right now because a week and a half ago he
had the right half of his thyroid removed due to cancer. His Dad died from thyroid cancer when he was two years younger than Carl is now.
Anyway, in the removal process they had to literally scrape the nerve that controls the right side of his vocal cords and it's left that side completely
paralyzed, so his voice has been a mere whisper of sound ever since. Last Friday they injected a lot of clear gel into his voice box to fill in the
gaps and he's improved enough so that now he sounds like a gravel truck in the fog. He has a wedding to perform in a big cathedral this coming Saturday and they were concerned there was no way he'd be able to do that with his little whisper even with a mike, which is why they went for the gel. I found him a couple of days ago sitting at his computer listening to himself sing on my site. He feels like it's a real gift right now to have it
up there and has been getting so much lovely feedback from it. So I thought, what the heck, I'd mention it on here, too, in case anybody'd like to
give him a listen.
Jo
) And those backgrounds ... save... save... save.... ....save....save ....save.....save....save.....well, you get the idea!!!! Now, I
just have to figure out which one I want on my desktops at work and home every day!!! Decisions! Decision!
Holy Crap! That's a lot in one day.
Thank you.
Joimus, I envy you and your marvelous talent. 
Perver
