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| Artist : Ben Kweller |
| Album : Changing Horses |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
| Label : ATO Records |
| Year : 2009 |
| Genre : Indie |
| Rip date : Nov-22-2008 |
| Store date : Feb-03-2009 |
| Size : 46,7 MB |
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|Track Listing: |
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| 01 - Gypsy Rose 04:57 |
| 02 - Old Hat 04:12 |
| 03 - Fight 02:55 |
| 04 - Hurtin' You 02:46 |
| 05 - Ballad Of Wendy Baker 03:59 |
| 06 - Sawdust Man 04:13 |
| 07 - Wantin' Her Again 02:43 |
| 08 - Things I Like To Do 02:09 |
| 09 - On Her Own 04:02 |
| 10 - Homeward Bound 03:50 |
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| 35:46 min |
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| A lot of kids are raised in musical families, but few had the |
| introduction to music that Ben Kweller had. Nils Lofgren was one of |
| Kweller's father's buddies during Lofgren's days with Bruce Springsteen. |
| Young Kweller, not even old enough for kindergarten at the time, would |
| try to be like the famous guitarist when he picked up his own toy |
| version of the instrument. He played the piano since his very early |
| childhood and by the age of eight had graduated from toy guitars and |
| simply tapping the ivories to penning his own tunes. The following year, |
| he received a nod of encouragement from Billboard magazine when it |
| conferred an honorable mention on the youth for his entry into its |
| yearly songwriters competition. By the time he hit his teen years, |
| Kweller was accomplished on the guitar and also played the drums. As |
| many teenagers do, he pulled together a band, which he dubbed Mirage. He |
| followed up with groups named Green Eggs & Ham and Foxglove. |
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| In 1993, with Bryan Blur on bass and John Kent on drums, Kweller |
| established Radish. The group made its mark on the local Dallas scene, |
| not far from Greenville, TX, where Kweller was raised. In 1994, the |
| musical wunderkind and his outfit put out the EP Hello through Practice |
| Amp Records. That same year, the label released the album Dizzy. Roger |
| Greenawalt, a producer, stepped into the picture in 1995. He led Radish |
| through the production of a demo that led to the inking of a contract |
| with Mercury during the summer of 1996. The label released Restraining |
| Bolt the following spring, and Kweller led Radish through European and |
| American tours and stops on late-night television talk shows, including |
| The Conan O'Brian Show and Late Night With David Letterman. When Radish |
| disbanded in 1999, Kweller headed east, in the spring, to Guilford, CT, |
| where he stayed only a short time before relocating to Brooklyn, NY, the |
| following November. Not yet 20 years old, he signed with Island Records |
| as a solo artist. He spent time touring with such artists as Juliana |
| Hatfield, Guster, Kristin Hersh, and Evan Dando. He also collaborated |
| with Ben Folds and Ben Lee for a series of dates down under in 2003 and |
| appeared on Folds' limited-edition EP The Bens. Kweller's sophomore |
| effort, the much more subdued On My Way, followed in spring 2004. Two |
| years later, he returned with his self-titled third album, on which he |
| played all the instruments. |
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