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The Criswell Seven- ‘The Bootcamp Sessions’
all music and lyrics copyright © 2006 chrisrawksongs, BMI This disk marked a return to music after a long absence from it. I was living in Boston at the time I wrote many of these songs working a series of jobs, living life, just kind of doing my thing. 1999 marked the end of a rather personally tumultuous year and from there songs started coming to me again. Ideas began coming to me at a rapid rate and I got a hold of a Roland VS-880 digital 8-track recorder and set about putting an album together. After a lot of vicious trail and error I got together what I thought was a pretty solid set of songs. All in all it’s pretty lo-fi but the songs are there, which is all I care about anyway. I don’t think my songs have ever required a big Mutt Lange-style production. I felt by taking this approach I was making a statement, letting people know that my limitations weren’t going to stop me from making music. I called the project ‘The Criswell Seven’ combining the sci-fi names of ‘The Amazing Criswell’ (from Ed Wood’s movies) and ‘Gary Seven’ from STAR TREK. At this point I was afraid of calling myself ‘Chris Neri’ and being a solo guy, so I hid behind a band name. Lots of folks have done this and I thought I would too. I called it ‘The Bootcamp Sessions’ because I thought of doing this record as a way of remaking myself as a musician and songwriter. It was about breaking down what I was before and building something bigger and stronger. For a first album it’s flawed in places but the strength of the songs I think carry it. You can download this album by clicking on the cover: |
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