Blinderman & Freeman - Music for the Sunrise - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In an increasingly disposable world, Rob Freeman and Barry Blinderman have maintained their close friendship for over four decades. Their love of music brought them together as teens in the Lehigh Valley of eastern Pennsylvania. Barry had gotten his first guitar not long after seeing the Beatles perform on Ed Sullivan and was singing and playing in a folk duo, while Rob, a self-taught accordionist and pianist, already had his own sound-on-sound recording rig with original songs in the can. This album's title, also the name of it's closing tune, alludes to their frequent practice of staying up all night-whether at the end of a deserted country road or in the den of Rob's split-level house-strumming songs, playing four-handed piano, and waxing philosophical. In their junior year of high school, they formed a band, Bleu Grass-recently described in Rocktober Magazine as a InchJewish garage psyche teen band.Inch Using the prize money they won in a local battle-of-the-bands competition, they recorded their first (and only) single, InchWhat I KnowInch b/w InchStrange Haze.Inch In the summer of '69, the two friends attended Woodstock together and reveled in the sounds of The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Mountain, Janis Joplin, and so many others. The next year, hitchhiking back and forth between Syracuse University (Barry) and Penn State (Rob), they laid down their first tracks as a duo, including InchAre We Lost?,Inch rerecorded for this collection. In the mid 1970s, while Rob was in New York engineering records for such luminaries as The Ramones, Richard Hell, and Blondie, and Barry was pursuing his M.A. in Art History at University of Pennsylvania, Rob would bring Barry into Plaza Sound Studio in Radio City after hours to record newly composed songs. Although they never recorded together again between that time and the beginnings of what would become Music for the Sunrise, the