| The Summer of my 27th Year Original Songs Performed and produced by W. Brett Youens |
| CD: The Summer of my 27th Year - 10€ ($10) To place an order: FreeWillyB@yahoo.com NB: Because the CD is produced both in Europe and the United States, costly shipping charges are avoided. |
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| I have always loved summer projects. One summer it was golf. Another it was tennis. One was paneling the garage, and one was writing a computer program intended to cut my study time in half - The Youens Study Friend, from the year 1990. Exactly ten years later, in the summer of 2000, I had just finished my Masters. I decided to fulfill a dream. To record an album on a digital multi-track recorder on which I played all the instruments and composed all the songs. So, in the summer of my 27th year, I did just that. I bought myself just such a recorder - as my own graduation present - and went to work. I worked on the album the whole summer before moving to Germany. On it I sing, play piano, guitar, trombone, harmonica, various percussion instruments, and - at one especially climactic moment - frying pan (I didn't own a gong). Another dream of mine was to create a choir out of my own voice. So, in the last piece on the album, you can hear a choir of 64 Bretts singing Bass, Baritone, Tenor, and countertenor. The album's title is a reference to the first line of John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High", a song which had great meaning for me as a child. |
| Featuring: i'm gonna tell you (how i feel) when every morning there you are i'm excited (about love) a friend in being hey my friend i believe (a dream could be no better) i'm writin' a song (about writin' a song) half the world a window to my heart bbq a princess named annalee the problem sometimes i'm excited (about me and you) one |