What’s coming. . .
These are now available. If you’d like one for yourself, shoot me an e mail at BrianRipps@aol.com and I’ll send you all the details for obtaining one while I work on getting my PayPal account equipped to accept online payment.
These past two weeks I’ve been in the studio working on my solo record I’m calling Impressions. It’s going to be a combination of interpretations of a couple of songs that have meant a lot to me over the course of my life by various artists for various reasons as well as a couple of songs written by me, Pat, or some collaboration thereof.
The track list if I was going to write it now would look something like this
- Never Tear Us Apart (INXS)
- Have A Little Faith In Me (John Hiatt)
- Lump Sum (Bon Iver)
- Long As I Can See The Light (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
- The Story (Brian Ripps/Patrick McDermott)
- When You’re Gone (Patrick McDermott)
It’s ever evolving, but that’s what’s on the docket as of right now. The way I see it, songs do a great job of speaking for themselves and an incomparable job of speaking to me. I’m taking this opportunity to put a spin on each of the songs as it resonates in my heart and mind. I want to embrace the notion of a songbook, and standards and explore these songs in a studio and treat the entire record as a performance in itself.
As a musician, entertainer, and performer I’ve had countless opportunities to play each of these songs for various audiences in a number of different environments, but I’ve never had the chance to capture any or all of them as an individual moment in time, almost like a snapshot.
A little while ago I fell in love with the idea of getting into the studio and stretching out, really putting my thumbprint on songs that do such a good job of speaking to me and conveying the attitude that I settle on with the other musicians and delivering it to all of you. Impressions is and will be a collection of songs fed through the Brian Ripps filter before reaching your ears.
Peace Love and Vocal Harmonies
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