This is a wonderful article by Greg Wien, and I am both humbled and touched that he decided to interview me for New Jersey Stage magazine.

I have had a small spike in attention that began just before I graduated. I am not entirely sure why things like this happen, but someone once told me that Lady Luck was a like statue on a pedestal with her eyes closed, and that she revolves around and around; you have to watch her very carefully, because every once in a while she will open her eyes and look at you, and you must be there to see it. Sort of like a reverse wink of good fortune. 

I figured at one point that Lady Luck only looks at you once, and I resigned myself to the fact that she would never see me again; I now know different. We can love more than once, succeed more than once, and dream more than once - hope is always afoot. Let’s not ever forget that, okay? 

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Currently among these files is a 1979 video of the Bathurst Theater in Toronto, a Chorus TV show from Paris from 1979, the Ovation TV show recorded by Paramount for HBO in 1980 but never released, my promotional videos for Carolyne Mas which were recorded from the VHS tape that my manager had from the record company, as well as all my studio recordings ( US and Germany) and several live recordings like RockPalast, More Mas Hysteria, a 1990 show from Karlsruhe, Germany, a 1989 broadcast from Bremen, Germany, and a 1980 show from the Fast Lane in Asbury Park, New Jersey. I am always adding new files, and fans are welcome to contribute their photos or recordings as well

This is a great idea that lets you save money over CD Baby prices, as well as make custom compilations easily and share files with other fans.

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I am grateful to have been mentioned in the latest issue of Billboard magazine by New York radio legend Jim Kerr, whom I had the pleasure of meeting in 1979, at the start of my career. WPLJ, which was my favorite station in those days, signs off forever on May 31st. The end of an era.

"I really loved the 1979-1980 PLJ. Not everybody was a big name, but everybody was good. There was a female artist at the time, Carolyne Mas, she had an album out and it made our Top 95 album list that year. It was a good time.”

This is not the entire show, but there are quite a few tracks and the quality is not bad. I tried a remix, but I am no expert. What I have done is to create a file in DropBox called "Carolyne Mas Fast Lane 1980" with both the mixed and unmixed versions, which are each in two parts. Those who subscribe to DropBox access already, will get this show as soon as I tag you tomorrow. Those who are not subscribed yet, will have the opportunity to do so by visiting my website.

Part 1 of the show contains these songs: Never 2 Without 3, Snow, It's No Secret, All for You, and Sadie Says. Part 2 of the show contains these songs: Stillsane, Baby Please, Go Ahead and Cry Now, and Midnight Confessions. The band lineup is with David Landau (lead guitar), Crispin Cioe (sax), Ivan Elias (bass), Charlie Giordano (keys), and Bobby Chouinard (drums). This was before Hold On was recorded and may have been one of Charlie's first shows with me as he replaced Robbie Condor. My first ex-husband sings harmony on Sadie Says as he did on my first album, and this is one of the few times that he did so at a live show.

I encourage fans to subscribe to my DropBox access, because I never know when special shows like this will be added. Enjoy the music!

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Yay!!!

“On a warm summer night—July of 1980—that fine tuned machine—with Carolyne Mas: lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Rick Desarno: lead guitar, Ivan Elias: bass, Crispin Cioe: sax, Charles Giordano: keys, and Vince Barranco on drums— revved its monster engine from the stage of the Fast Lane in Asbury Park, NJ until we were all drained and transported to a place of exuberant revelry . What a sound!  What a show! What a night! Carolyne’s music and chops stood on their own. This little spitfire, sang her heart out and played rhythm guitar with guts, gusto and confidence like few men could, and with every song—she meant business! Singing, running, leaping, falling to her knees and belting out each song like it was her last—she drew us all into her world and shared her passions, her soul, her joy and herself." ~ Joe Streno

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