SERVICE DATE TO RADIO IS APRIL 2016
FORMAT: FOLK/AMERICANA/BLUEGRASS/ROOTS
Yes it’s true … the album was completely recorded on an iPhone. An iPhone 6-plus, actually. As far as we know, this is the first national album release to be recorded this way. It’s an acoustic album recorded with the new Martin 0000-28s guitar and long neck VEGA Banjo.
“I wanted to re-create the feel of an early folk recording using 21st century technology,” says folksinger Michael Johnathon from his log cabin home in Kentucky. “We used Ear Trumpet mics and the Apogee Quartet connected straight into an iPhone 6-plus with a MetaRecorder app and used my writing cabin as a studio.”
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Radio/Media Info For servicing beginning April 2016, extra copies, fund drive pitches by Michael Johnathon (emailed as an MP3) or interviews please contact: radio@woodsongs.com or call 859-255-5700 M-F 10-5PM EDT
Mailing Address PoetMan Records USA PO Box 200, Lexington, KY 40588
Song Lyrics The SongFarmer album is language appropriate for public radio. For DJs or media who want to read the song lyrics please download the PDF HERE
The SongFarmer album, released to 1,400 folk, bluegrass, Americana and roots music DJs in 28 countries, is recorded to introduce the work and mission of the WoodSongs Front Porch Association and it’s musical members, called “SongFarmers.”
FULL JACKET ART click here
The WFPA mission statement is: To gather the global community of front porch minded musicians and help them do good work, bring roots music education into schools free of charge, and enhance communities by redirecting the tremendous energies of local musicians. We hope you will give the album a listen … and join us at SongFarmers.org
RADIO SAMPLES click to download hires MP3:
SUNRISE: guitar/harmonica/voice … we live in a volatile atmosphere, it seems like the whole world is just plain old angry, “There’s Something Wrong with this World” is an obvious statement in the song … but better times are ahead. AUTUMN SONG: banjo/vocal … poetic and pretty tune played on a Vega long neck banjo. You can hear the ambient sounds of the studio cabin in the woods within the recording.
PAMPER CREEK: is a funny, Appalachian story-song based on actual experience while Michael was living in Mousie, KY and the Book of Solomon … an environmental “Earth Day” tune in the style of Alice’s Restaurant. The song was recorded live in one take, no overdubs.
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