Angela Bingham and David Halliday: Reflections on Debut Albums

On May 3, 2018, Lone Peak Sound artist Angela Bingham performed a concert at the Gallivan Center in Salt Lake City as part of the Excellence in the Community concert series.  Afterward, she sat down with David Halliday to discuss the re-release of her debut album, Everything I Love. The two longtime friends reflected on the interest and perspective that a debut album can hold, both for the public at large and for the artist herself, years after its initial release.

David: So we’re sitting here at Oh Shucks Ah Sushi in Salt Lake City back here with Angela Bingham: she's back in town. We just decided last night that we're going to re-release Everything I Love, Angela’s first record on Lone Peak Sound, one of the first Lone Peak Sound records. Angela, tell these people why they should be excited about that. 

Angela: Well I think one of the reasons it's exciting for me personally is because there were a lot of people who bought that album when I put it out in 2004, and you know it was the first album I put out and it was just a duo. And then I sold out of the album and so there's a lot of people walking around in the world that actually have an album but a lot of people have said, ‘How can I get that online?’ and I'm like ‘you know, I never released it’ because it was like 2004 so that was before the digital age of it being so easy to release stuff. So it was super old-school, but you know there's like a really nice mix of songs: they're all like jazz straight-ahead jazz standards but there's some stuff that's like kind of different and actually I think a lot of it really holds up over the years…

David: Couldn’t agree more. Absolutely.

Angela: …even though I was really young when I recorded it: I was like 31 or whatever, I was a baby. I just feel like it's nice to see the progression of time – you know, just how we change over time.

David: I think that people who like “The Night We Called it a Day” -- people who know Angela from that album that we did together a couple years ago are going to really love hearing this one because when you like an artist -- and I think especially singers because singing is more personal, like, you either like a singer or you don't --

Angela: Really, truly, yeah. 

David: People who like your singing are going to be really interested to hear what you sounded like 15 years ago or whatever it was, 14 years ago.

Angela: Yeah, 14 years ago.

David: That’s you as an artist, you know, I think that’s really cool.

Angela: It's nice to see the progression and listen to what kind of stars in my eyes I had back in those days like how I I've turned into an old crusty jazz singer.

David: But I think I think too sometimes with those early records you know you hear something and you go ‘yeah like how much I liked this back in the day was actually legit yeah and hey I might want to revisit that again,’ yeah.  But but right now it's time to eat sushi with…

Both: Dr. Buerre!
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