ARTIST: Owen Pye
TITLE: If That's Cool With You
LABEL: Second Place Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 213 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 28min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-10-31
RIP DATE: 2007-02-13
Track List
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1. Intro 0:18
2. Her Cultish Ways 4:20
3. The Introduction 1:54
4. California 3:46
5. If That's Cool With You 2:13
6. Happy V.D. 2:34
7. Come Home 3:57
8. A Song For A Girl 2:46
9. Aches And Pains 4:23
10. We Want To Be Loved 2:32
Release Notes:
http://myspace.com/owenpye
It's a rural town close to St. Louis, Mo. The population is just under 10,000,
and there's really nothing special that makes Highland stand out from any other
town in the country.
Except for one thing, a local young musician who's slowly building a career in
singing and song writing. With a new album and a national tour in the works for
2007, 19-year-old Owen Pye just might be the person to put Highland, Illinois on
the map.
Pye's musical career began in junior high, when he first picked up a guitar and
played in a cover band. It evolved and grew as Owen started high school, and
joined a band called The Amanda's. The music was lighthearted, and not geared
toward a particular genre, but when he joined a group called Cat, Jump!, things
took a decidedly more serious turn.
Before he had a license to drive, Pye was recording albums and playing two to
three shows a week with his new band, while attending high school.
"It wasn't easy. We played two to the three shows a week and I wouldn't even get
home until 2 a.m. I'd just go to class the next day, and try to stay caught up,"
says Pye.
It wasn't easy, balancing an academic career with a growing profession in a
demanding industry, but he made it work, Pye says. Long nights, unfinished
homework, and lack of sleep were well worth the pay off of a job well done.
By his senior year, Pye had left Cat, Jump! to test the waters of a solo career.
Armed with an acoustic guitar and a skill for all things lyrical, he began to
pen songs and book shows, all while balancing prom and after school time with
friends.
Pye credits his friends and family for being his biggest source of support,
through both good times and bad, as well as a strong belief in God.
"Your friends are like your support," says Pye. "Whatever you decide to do, your
friends are the people who are there for you, even more so then your family
sometimes."
Pye says he has no immediate plans to attend college, like most people his age,
choosing instead to focus on a career in the music industry. He says in his line
of business, a diploma doesn't count for much, but integrity and drive do.
Pye has a new full-length album entitled æIf That's Cool With You' and in March
will begin a coast-to-coast U.S. Tour.
While he admits that money and fame would be nice, Pye says that isn't the
reason for all of his hard work.
"It's not my goal, and if it's anyone's goal in music that's very selfish. If
you have interior motives you won't make it, you won't have true success. You
won't lie down at night and go æhey, I did a good job'," Pye says.
Pye will take a break in the summer before going back into the studio to record
his second album.
Then what?
Another tour, he says.