CHICKIN TUNES!!!! How exciting. We just recorded the first rifts to our upcoming "Chickin Tunes" CD... Yet to be properly titled . I must say being pretty much musically illiterate, I was hopelessly blown away by the improvisation of
Adam Cole. I've known Adam and his family since our daughters were one (eight years +) and have always known that he was musically talented. I had no idea that he was so darn good at improvising.
A few months ago I contacted my other two hugely musical friends Katherine Moore & Annette Wawerna to see if they might be able to help me with a "chickin tune" or two. Maybe we could squeak out a little jingle to put on the website. Well those two came back at me with a full blown musical that is so creative, funny and I can't wait to get going on it. The idea came up that we could cobble together a little tune that we could get up on the website and that I could take to the upcoming Toy Fair for a little background booth filler.
Annette & Katherine wrote a lovely little tune that throws you right straight back to the day that Western Swing was the thing! The lyrics came soon after and Annette asked Adam to come lay down some piano tracks tonight.
(Annette and Adam are in a rockin' neighborhood band called The Wipes together) He sat down at the piano, looked at the sheet music for about a minute and then with
Fletcher Moore ready to record (another genius - more about him later) ... Adam riffed on the chickin song in no less than
10 different styles.
I couldn't believe that he had never seen the music before! Our faces hurt after 20 minutes of amazement. What a lovely thing to be surrounded by so many generous and talented folks! Thank you all!!!
Stay tuned for CHICKIN TUNES!!!
