I know, I know, it's friggin' October. But you want an album to come out in November, you gotta record it in Spring and Summer.
I have a theatre company (
www.strivingartists.org) with whom I direct holiday variety shows every year (among other things). Skits and whatnot are all originals, and the songs are new arrangements done up by me. After a few years of doing the shows live, I decided to go ahead and record them for posterity. It's all done in my living room, Smiley Smile style, baby, with pretty inexpensive equipment. Sometimes you can tell, sometimes you can't. Most of us are amateurs, which is sometimes obvious. It ain't perfect, but I'm pretty proud of it.
Anyway, you'll hear Brian's influence all over this. I open with "Our Prayer", for instance, because I feel like it works in the context of the holiday. And because it's the greatest thing ever. "Little Saint Nick" is in there, and with a number of the other arrangements you'll no doubt be able to tell that I was listening to the BBs a lot this year.
Regardless, feel free to give a listen to the first two singles and/or the 30 second clips I've got on our Soundcloud page:
http://soundcloud.com/striving-artists-theatre/sets/christmas-with-the-sac-pack/Feedback welcome. Just, you know, constructive rather than "don't give up your day job".
Cheers!
Greg
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