VETERAN HEARTS
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THE LAST CD by Adrian Fogelin
I remember when albums were vinyl and came in glossy cardboard jackets, a dozen or so songs carefully ordered to create a whole, Meet the Beatles! The vinyl spun and the needle dropped. Vinyl died, replaced by a thin ribbon of plastic in a cassette you could carry in your pocket, or store in your glove compartment. Smaller, more convenient than an LP, but the broad canvas of that cardboard jacket was gone. Cassettes gave way to CDs—everyone had a CD player in their car. CDs got cheap to burn, cheap to mass produce, and amateur musicians like us could sell them at our gigs and pick up a little cash, a few listening ears. Now the CD is going dinosaur and as it vanishes, something else is going extinct. |
Although the physical technology changed, the concept of the album did not. Like a quilt, the album, although pieced together out of individual songs, created a whole. The order of songs was carefully planned for contrast, for continuity. It was more than the sum of its parts—it was an album.
As the CD is replaced by streaming media, the album is replaced by individual songs, postcards replacing long, heartfelt letters.
Our new CD, Veteran Hearts: Songs From Further Down the Road, may be the last foot print of that vanishing dinosaur, but it is good that this group of songs be heard together. They cover the span of a life from Ticonderoga, that shiny yellow pencil that taught you how to print your name, to love found late in life in I’ll Love You Anyway, to the transcendent, I Would Fly. There are even two songs about playing music on the street for an indifferent crowd: Sidewalk Musician, and Busker’s Lament.
Life is too big to package in something as small as a single song. So, before you get that shiny new car with no slot for a CD, we hope you’ll listen to our album, Veteran Hearts, the last CD.
As the CD is replaced by streaming media, the album is replaced by individual songs, postcards replacing long, heartfelt letters.
Our new CD, Veteran Hearts: Songs From Further Down the Road, may be the last foot print of that vanishing dinosaur, but it is good that this group of songs be heard together. They cover the span of a life from Ticonderoga, that shiny yellow pencil that taught you how to print your name, to love found late in life in I’ll Love You Anyway, to the transcendent, I Would Fly. There are even two songs about playing music on the street for an indifferent crowd: Sidewalk Musician, and Busker’s Lament.
Life is too big to package in something as small as a single song. So, before you get that shiny new car with no slot for a CD, we hope you’ll listen to our album, Veteran Hearts, the last CD.
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Website: hottamale.weebly.com
Facebook: hot tamale tallahassee
Spotify: Hot Tamale
contact: Craig Reeder ph: 850-491-4549 email: [email protected]
PS: If anyone would like a CD, email me and I'll send you one, gratis.
Or if you'd rather, I'll email you the mp3s.
Facebook: hot tamale tallahassee
Spotify: Hot Tamale
contact: Craig Reeder ph: 850-491-4549 email: [email protected]
PS: If anyone would like a CD, email me and I'll send you one, gratis.
Or if you'd rather, I'll email you the mp3s.