Patty Stevenson & Craig Siemsen One Person CD

Working with producer Greg Arnold (ex Things of Stone and Wood), and engineer Chris Dickie (Dave Matthews Band, Kasey Chambers), the band has created a beautifully crafted 10-track debut, recorded at 001 Studios in ...

Tony says; "Growing up, I played saxophone and clarinet and found it hard to sing with an apparatus in my mouth, so as you might expect, I put the horns aside. In high school, I was a member of choir and "toyed" with the idea of forming a band; however, looking back, it would have been impossible for me to totally commit to music due to my heavy involvement in athletics and my eventual selection into professional baseball as a pitcher at the age of 17." "Although I did not directly pursue music as a career at that time, I had already begun the process of songwriting and finding out what it was that inspired me, as well as what it was that I needed to do as a writer that would inspire others without compromising myself." "My true involvement and dedication to music did not come until I entered college and formed and fronted my own bands. Yes, like everyone else starting out, our band played our share of copy material while writing our own songs during our "down time" and slipping an original song into our sets whenever we could get away with it."We certainly "paid our dues" by traveling for many years and playing bars and club circuits from 8 or 9 pm until 2 a.m.. I typically performed six sets a night, six nights a week and spent the "off day" driving hundreds of miles to get to the next gig. However...as grueling as it was at times, I would never trade those years for anything. It was a great learning experience as well as "a school" for learning the trade so to speak.""Songwriting became an obsession for me early on. It was always something that just came to me. I describe it as a "word processor." I may be anywhere at anytime and see an image or hear a word or phrase and need to jot it down immediately. The "vision and sound" for the song somehow registers and remains in my thoughts. Ultimately, when I sit down to write, it all just starts coming to me. I may tweak some rhymes and lines here and there, but the bulk of the lyric will just flow. Nothing is ever forced. I usually have the "sound" that I want when I begin writing from my ...