SONGWRITER WE’D LIKE TO GET TO KNOW BETTER: Daisy McCrackin
Feb 02, 2011
The erstwhile actress likes to roll out of bed and play guitar.
BY RANDY HARWARD
"I'm just doing it for the money," says Daisy McCrackin, fresh out of an audition for a telecom company commercial. Although she's acted in shorts and features (Love and Suicide), and been on TV (Cold Case, Angel), McCrackin prefers to sing for her supper. "I haven't had a theatrical agent or audition for five years; I quit a long time ago to do music instead."
The Rodeo Grounds EP (Aeronaut), a beguiling collection of gauzy, old-timey folk songs, shows she decided correctly. "My next record won't be as old-timey," Daisy says, weeks from entering the studio-this time with a full band. The title, God Willing, and that her band features members of VHS or Beta, is all the preview as she'll give. She's holding the direction of her first full album (not counting the soundtrack for Stephanie Schneider's Til Death Do Us Part) close to her chest. "I think we'll keep it a surprise." The good news: at press time, the platter is due in October.
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The Best Part of Waking Up
Daisy's bio speaks of singing herself awake. Refreshingly, the redheaded waif calls bullshit on her own hype. "My girlfriend wrote that," she says. "I'm not sure where she got that, but I do wake up with melodies in my head, and sometimes I'll roll out of bed and go straight for the guitar."
Pervs, Alert
Daisy already has Internet pervs downloading her on the celebrity skin sites Celebarazzi.com and CelebTnA.com, but not because her "acting" resume includes some dubious roles. Artful nudes shot by Schneider-whose film is a gorgeous pastiche of Polaroids-found their way onto the sites, as did similar shots from a nude calendar and modeling gigs for European Vogue and Italian GQ. Daisy's not enthused about the photos being offered as spank fodder. "They hijacked those pictures... That's my art."
La Vie En Daisy
Daisy had just started to play music two years ago when she met auteur Olivier Dahan, director of the Edith Piaf biopic La Vie en Rose. "I played him all my best songs with little groups of friends at my house or his hotel suite." Smitten, Dahan "helped convince me that my music was good" and offered to helm her first video. Upon completing The Rodeo Grounds, Daisy lit off for Paris CD in hand. "[Dahan] said, ‘Let's do it now.'"
Check out the clip for "Different Girl" below, and also at www.myspace.com/DaisyMcCrackin as well as other choice vids.
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