Gay Marshall Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night

Gay Marshall Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night

Broadway actress and Billboard World Artist, Gay Marshall, has just released her new recording: Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night! The disc, Marshall's second, is a collection of 'foot-stompin', hand-clappin', good time blues" dating from the 20's and 30's. It includes seldom-recorded songs including the title track by Ethel Waters and Sidney Easton plus fourteen more from names like Sippie Wallace, Fletcher Henderson, Joe 'King" Oliver, Jimmy Cox and other early masters of an original American art form. Marshall wrote additional lyrics for three songs.

'Ethel Waters was my main inspiration to perform this style of music," says Marshall, 'but all the incredible artists who wrote and sang these tunes changed my life forever for the better."

At first glance, Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night! may seem light years away from Marshall's debut album, Gay Marshall Sings Piaf, La Vie L'Amour, which made a hot shot debut on the Billboard World Album chart in January of 2010. However, both projects represent lifelong goals for Marshall, who is also a classically trained actress from the Bristol Old Vic in the UK. Marshall made her Broadway debut as Morales singing "What I Did For Love" in A Chorus Line.

Her blues repertoire came in handy in Paris where Marshall moved after falling in love with French photographer Jean-Louis Blondeau (of Man On Wire). She sang in clubs, performed in professional English and French theatrical productions and among other starring roles, she created the role of Grizabella – singing "Memory" in the Paris production of Cats, and recording the cast album. The ups and downs of being an American actress in Paris inspired her to write a comic, one-woman musical, If I Were Me…, which caught the attention of Broadway legend Stephen Schwartz and New York director Gordon Greenberg when it played the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to great acclaim. They brought her Stateside for their revival of The Baker's Wife. Greenberg then hired Marshall for the year long, off-Broadway revival of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at the Zipper Theater.

Marshall met many of the Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night! musicians when she performed a concert at Nightown in Cleveland last year. She was inspired to work with them again, and decided they were perfect for the sound she was after for her second album. They recorded the tracks for Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night! in Cleveland at Lava Room. Marshall recorded the vocals in New York City with John Kilgore at Kilgore Studios.

Visit Gay on the web at: www.GayMarshall.com