Meet Reecy.. I started a flickr account to start posting some of the pictures I’ve taken for fun. If you’re interested you can go here: www.flickr.com/photos/benthomasgrant Hope you’re all having a great week!
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Taking a break from recording vocals for my first solo album. Only have 3 more songs to finish before finalizing things and mixing! I realize this might be the first time I’ve said anything about an album.. but I’ve been working and working on getting everything in the general area and direction I was hoping to get, and am finally close! I owe an entire explanation and update to both this page, and the Status page. Don’t worry neither are done, or ending. However, a lot of time has passed and feel like everyone should know exactly where the guys and my heart’s have been, and currently are. For now, I’m trying to keep up my commitment to sharing more of my music. This is a song I wrote last fall.. Hope you enjoy it, and if you do please pass it on. Thanks for checking in, a full update will be here this week. Take care everyone!
Ive decided to make a new Youtube channel for my solo stuff. I’m in the middle of recording my first record that will be out this fall. Until then, I’m going to try to start putting out a bunch of demos and live videos like these. I have way too many songs to not share and get some sort of feedback, other than my own brain. Like hundreds upon hundreds.. Would love to hear what you guys think as I post them. Thanks for checking it out, I appreciate it!!
Hey everyone.. I know I’ve mentioned that a few friends, (including my good friend Megg who sings on the songs) and I decided to record some Christmas songs with the intent to share them. We did 8 songs in about a week. We did them all at my home, so they aren’t really a professional recording or perfect. But.. we had an awesome time putting them together and wanted to share them with anyone that wanted to hear them! I also just wanted to say thanks to anyone that does download them (they are FREE!), and for supporting what I love to do. If you like them, please pass the word along, and most of all Happy Holidays, hope you are all spending them with family and friends! -ben
Just follow this link and click the blue download button..
Today is one of those days I wish I could be home relaxing. Having a good time on this tour, but we have a week off in between tours which I’m sure will be fun, but home would be nice too. That’s all. This is a picture of my dog Rocky playing in the snow before we left for this tour.
I’m hoping for something good soon, you know how you work and work, and then work some more? Sometimes you just want to see someone ahead of you come along side you and say, “hey you’re doing a good job, let me help you do this” or “maybe you should try this, I think it could help”. That would be incredibly nice soon. Happy friday everyone, keep your heads up, I’ll do the same.
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“Heart in a frame”
This is the second song I decided to post from the September days stuck in Winnemucca, NV. I wrote this when I was feeling pretty drained. So this is for anyone feeling tired, or fearing what they’re attempting may be in vain. It’s not, and don’t get too tired. Don’t be afraid to slow down, even if you have to force yourself. Sometimes all you need is the smallest of signs or words from an unexpected friend to help find a new direction or to get back on track. I know I left that experience last fall feeling more focused and driven than before.
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This is one of my favorite pictures and favorite memories of being on tour last year. It was a show in Dover, NH w/ Sparks The Rescue, The Scenic, and Lannen Fall. The Scenic are really close friends of ours and we are mutual Weezer fans. So Jake came out to play guitar and Jeremy came out to help me sing on “Say It Ain’t So” . That’s one of the few songs out there that still gives me that “chill” when I hear it. Definitely one of my favorites, and a song that that links all kinds of different seasons of my life. All the credit goes to Victoria Morse on this picture, she does great live photography. Her link is at the top.
Matt took this photo last night of the Chicago skyline. Have to say this is one of our favorite places to come. Lots of good people here, hope we’ere coming here for a long time. Thanks for all the love with the song I posted, looks like I’ll be posting another tomorrow
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“flying along the traintracks”
Last september we were on tour with Thieves and Villains and Yearling on the west coast. We had just played Reno, NV and were spending a few days with friends there. A few days before that we got the chance to hang out at Lake Tahoe, that was absolutely beautiful. After leaving Reno, we headed east for Salt Lake City. Only a hundred or so miles into the drive, we broke down in the middle of the desert.. Our worse fear, yet at the same time something that we always wish we had time to do, be stranded in the middle of nowhere. For five days we slept in our van at a truck stop in Winnemucca, NV. So many thoughts go through your head at a time like that, obviously we weren’t in any danger, but you still panic a little inside. Wondering if we’d ever be able to leave. I spent a few afternoons sitting by the highway, only a couple hundred feet away, beneath a big tree. I recorded ten or so songs in the shade of that tree. I decided to share the first one today tentatively titled “Flying Along the traintracks”. Each song was recorded live on garage band, then I overdubbed a background vocal and key part on a few of the songs. Hope you enjoy, I really like the authentic feel, hope you can see that too.
