{"id":1141,"date":"2013-04-16T09:38:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T16:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2013-04-16T14:23:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T21:23:58","slug":"1141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"The Flying Dream CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 90&#8217;s and early 00&#8217;s, I recorded a number of song demos for promotion to music publishers. Around &#8217;02, I compiled the recordings into a CD, <em>Flying Dream<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve burned, sold and given away hundreds of these CDs over the years. Last year, I decided it was time to give my poor CD burner a break and release <em>Flying Dream<\/em> for real. I asked my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chertheart.com\">Cher Odum<\/a> if she would do the cover art. Cher has known and loved my music for a long time (I gave her one of the first ones ten years ago). She was inspired, and spent two days painting a beautiful cover in her unique style.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FD-Art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1162\" alt=\"FD Art\" src=\"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FD-Art.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FD-Art.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FD-Art-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m proud to announce that <em>Flying Dream<\/em> is now available in physical form from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/Artist\/GaryGarrett\">CD Baby<\/a>, and as a digital download from <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/album\/flying-dream\/id631597670?l=de&amp;v0=9989&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D1\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00C6TWDKS\/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1366130734&amp;sr=8-5\">Amazon<\/a>, and the rest of the usual suspects. All the sites have previews so you can hear before you buy. The 13 songs are available separately too.<\/p>\n<p>A few highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Flying-Dream\/dp\/B00C6TWF2Y\"><em>Flying Dream<\/em><\/a> is four part <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_cappella\">a cappella<\/a> harmony, with me singing all the parts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00C6TWQHS\/ref=dm_dp_trk10\"><em>Driving<\/em><\/a> is inspired by my many beautiful trips to Whidbey Island in Washington State and has a rare electric guitar solo.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00C6TWUSS\/ref=dm_dp_trk13\"><em>The Cove<\/em><\/a> is my love song for the beaches of California&#8217;s Central Coast, and for one beach in particular, and for my dear friends who love it too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Snooze<\/em> <em>Alarm, It&#8217;s Your Fault, I Could Fall In Love With You<\/em> &#8230; each song has its own flavor and personality. I recorded all the instruments and parts, mostly in my little guest house in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Luis_Obispo,_California\">San Luis Obispo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Songs are bookmarks that open our memories to particular pages, as effectively as the <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/proust-memory-and-the-foods-of-childhood\/\">scent of a madeleine cookie<\/a>. Many times, over the years, someone has told me of their experience with one of these songs, how they cried or were influenced, how it marked a page. Every once in a while someone asks me if I&#8217;ll burn another one because they wore the old one out. Mighty gratifying. I hope you get a chance to hear it too, and that it brings you joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 90&#8217;s and early 00&#8217;s, I recorded a number of song demos for promotion to music publishers. Around &#8217;02, I compiled the recordings into a CD, Flying Dream. I&#8217;ve burned, sold and given away hundreds of these CDs over the years. Last year, I decided it was time to give my poor CD&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[197,195,198,28,196,194,199],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recordings","tag-cd","tag-cher-odum","tag-driving","tag-flying-dream","tag-music","tag-recordings-2","tag-the-cove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}