Pink Rose - Just What We Needed - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mike Bones is NJ-born, NYC-based songwriter Mike Strallow. His songs come from the folk tradition, but they leave behind the front porch, communal vibes for a much starker aesthetic. These songs have the authority and insight of a man twice Mike's age, and a clarity and purpose matched by few songwriters.

Newman,Cassandra - Romping Stomping Art Room Songs [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/19/2015

For 31 years, Obed Shelton had been one of the best known broadcast journalists in Northeast Ohio. Then he was laid off in a corporate downsizing during the 2008 fall recession. Then he started using the video production skill and knowledge he had picked up in the TV news business, to start producing videos for the passion he had since childhood;music. When Obed Shelton was seven years old, his father gave him a toy violin for Christmas. Obed showed such in interest in the toy, that his parents decided to start him on the real thing in the Cleveland Public Schools. He soon began private lessons through the Cleveland Music Settlement, and then with private teachers in the Mansfield area when his father became a chaplain at the Ohio State Reformatory. Obed won a scholarship to study the violin at Ohio University. However, after a year at O.U., he took an interest Radio and Television, and changed his major to Communications. He still kept up his music study though, and was elected student Chairman of the University Symphony. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications, and began his broadcasting career reporting news for radio station WJMO in Cleveland. That's when he began using his high school nickname InchObieInch professionally. He joined Christian Tabernacle Evangelistic Church in Cleveland, and began directing the choir. Working with Rev. Bill Sawyer, the choir sang annual concerts at Cleveland's Music Hall Auditorium. Obed wrote and conducted music for those concerts with a 20-piece orchestra. Those concerts were recorded, and released as successful records on the Ty-Scott tag in Indianapolis. In May of 1998, he released his first violin solo recording InchIn HymnInch. He arranged and produced all the songs. In November of 2004, He released his second solo recording InchWhat a FriendInch, again producing and arranging all the songs. He has been a f