Remember when you first heard rock-n-roll?
Remember the first record you bought, and the excitement of rushing
home to drop it on the turntable for the first listen?
Remember when music was not a corporate endeavor?
Well, I sure do. And recently, I experienced those feelings again when I
unwrapped the new CD from Nashville based singer/songwriter
Billy Falcon titled MADE MAN.
Billy, as you may know, has been making great music for over thirty years now.
Perhaps you remember his Pretty Blue World record. (Power Windows)
What a classic rock record!
He has also co-written eleven songs on the last four Bon Jovi records.
In a recent discussion about the new record, he had this to say:
I started writing and singing songs when I was 8 years old, it’s all I ever wanted to do. Sometimes it feels like a curse, but when its right, when my stupid little brain connects with something outside and I’m able to write something smarter than I am, that moves people to smile, laugh, cry, hope, believe, to think a better thought, then I know that Gods given me a gift and I’m using it. When that happens I swear I feel like I’m flying. Flying is good. I hope you get what I’m saying.
I recently made the decision to write more, and start a band with friends and that’s what I did. My friends Michael Spears, Johnny Telucci, Joe Porter, and Brian Hall came over to the house with their guitars, drums, amps, and keyboards. We started making a lot of noise like when I was 15 in my mother’s basement.
After the first rehearsal I called Michael and said, "Michael what do you think, am I out of my mind trying to do this at this stage of the game, do these songs suck"? Of course Michael answered yes to my questions. [Just kidding} With those voices in my head telling me that this was a silly idea I continued to rehearse with the band.
Every week I added a song or two and after a few weeks it started to sound like something, like we were really onto something special. When we went into the studio a few months ago, I was anxious to see if it translated to something special on tape {though the only tape in a studio is scotch tape} and now that the process is complete, I think it does.
I can’t wait for you to hear it; the album is titled "Made Man"
I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed making it!
Faith, Hope, and Love
Billy
Hear samples of Made Man here:
http://www.billyfalcon.com/music.html