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Top Secret  After a long battle with brain cancer, our brother Shawn passed away in 1999. He left a us a treasure trove of memories and MUSIC.About a year after he passed, Tom Hailey and I met at my parents farm in VA to go through his few meager belongings. Drawings, letters and papers. We had heard from a friend of ours Steve Freeman, that while visiting Shawn, he'd had played for him a tape of songs he and Willis Turner had written, with Shawn both playing and singing the tunes. Shawn hated his voice, and I don't know whether the 'Top Secret" label he hand made and cut out, then placed on the tape was to keep people from hearing his voice or, a playful attempt to screw with future plagiarists. At any rate, he almost succeeded, and this treasure most likely would have at some point ended up in a dumpster, if we hadn't re-discovered it. Each of the 13 songs on the tape are incredible pieces of songwriting, both musically and lyrically. I promised my parents and Tom, that I would make sure this music got the production it deserved in a studio. It took ten years for me to get through the job of transcribing and arranging the material, finding the musicians, raising the money and the rest. The result is a Jazz Blues gem, with the vocals of Tom Hailey, and some of the best players in the Mid Atlantic region giving voice and note to this great collection of music. The Album is available at http://www.topsecret-project.com |
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