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Britt Warren

As a session pro, writer, and touring musician since 1979, there's little that guitarist Britt Warren hasn't encountered in the transient world of the professional music scene. Starting his professional music career as a studio musician, working primarily in the southeastern United States, he quickly found himself in situations that demanded he study and master multiple genres and styles. After his family started developing, with the birth of his twin sons, Britt made a decision to temporarily come off the road and accepted a job offer with an advertising agency as an in-house composer for national TV and radio campaigns for such clients as, Whirlpool Appliances, Wrangler Jeans (Telly Award), Bassett Furniture, Lane Action, HGTV, and the list goes on and on. In these campaigns the demand for diversity was tremendous and he rose to the occasion, composing everything from classical based orchestral compositions to hip-hop. This also helped to develop his ability on multiple instruments, resulting in his playing most of the instruments on his recordings. Due to years of composing for visual based media, Britt's compositions, even as a performance artist, especially lend themselves to film and TV scenes. Now, with family grown, and rich musical and life experiences under his belt he has re-emerged as a performance artist and in 2002 released a project entitled "Fearless" consisting of 11 tracks (7 instrumental and 4 vocal oriented tracks) which did really well in Europe quickly after released and he released "Dance Of Broken Chains" in 2011 which got noticed by many including Guitar Player Magazine which featured him not once but twice. He currently produces and plays guitar for the rock band "The Nut Drivers" as well as continuing to compose for TV and film in the U.S and U.K. For more information on custom music production by Britt Warren, to book a performance, or if you just want to know more about Britt Warren contact us at salt424@aol.com, www.brittwarren.com and www.thenutdrivers.com.

Riverbear/ Gordon

Riverbear built his first guitar at age 14. When he was 17 he had his own established playing style, having taught himself by ear, following the likes of popular music in the 70s. Riverbear fell in love with Poco, Eagles, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and others. By then, he was able to hear a song and pick up his guitar and play along adding his own leads. At 19, Riverbear began his thirty-seven-year career with a major aerospace company but that did not slow him down. He would come home after long shifts and write his own songs and music. He recruited a couple of friends who were also musicians, located some recording equipment - 4 track recorder (this was rather high tech in those days) and produced several albums on cassette tape. He even got a little radio play! In the early, to mid-1980s Riverbear’s career had picked up steam and he had married and started a family. Eventually, he was too busy to play, much less record, his music. He put away his guitar and spent the next 15 years focusing on work and home. Riverbear did not forget his dreams. Early in the new millennium, Riverbear found himself single once again. By this time he had reached his peak in his career and was beginning to think about making music again. The time still wasn’t quite right but he chewed on these thoughts for a while. Riverbear re-married in 2006 and his new wife was wildly supportive of his creativity, encouraging him to play every day and even nudged him to attend open mics at some local music venues. He wasn’t finished with his career just yet but had realized he could make time for all this, and besides, soon he would be able to think about his retirement! The possibilities! In 2014 Riverbear was finally able to leave his career behind. His hard work over those thirty-seven years made it possible for him to officially retire at 55 years young. Oh, the possibilities! The next couple of years were spent gradually moving to a smaller town in his state and get out the big city rat race. Now, Riverbear could build his in-home studio. This was comparatively easy as he had already acquired most of the equipment and instruments he could want. He spent some time putting it all together and began…. What you will find here on CD Baby are the products of Riverbear’s creations over the last nearly 40 years. We hope you enjoy!

Carlton "C-Mon-eh" Johnson

CSJ Music and Productions is the brain child of Carlton "C-Mon-eh" Johnson. Starting out as a DJ in the mid 80's , C-Mon-eh has always been interested in making beats, rapping and singing. In '94 C-Mon-eh started his first studio and has been making and producing beats ever since. CSJ Music and Productions has been moving around the world meeting up with and collaborating with local artists creating eclectic mixes that are unique to my flow and style.

A group born of musical inspiration in the year 2004, “Windows To Eternity” is the culminating effort of driving factor, composer, and as of this writing almost unknown guitar virtuoso Kelly James McKee: "...for the virtuoso rock guitar lovers out there...a great amount of technique on display, from alternate-picked runs and smooth legato phrases to feel-infused melodic control..." - Andre Avanessian Built-in to the group's heritage is a continuation of great musical influences from a point forever in the past blended into a musical language constructed in the present for a set of modern instruments to play – the ‘rock band’. These musical influences are held as timeless and forever, and represent the deeper study of music as opposed to music constructed out of the mundane.  In modern times, since the late 1960’s, this mantle has served as the basis for heavy metal music explorations by its leading contributors. The timelessness of the music’s attributes is as solid as if written into marble: “The arts of flute and lyre playing and other such arts make use of melody and rhythm” –Aristotle. Even during times of the greatest height of monarchic dynasties; even in the Court at Versailles under King Louis XIV of France, times when manners were strict but morals were unfortunately loose; musicians plied the trade and often furthered the cause of music...  The music of Windows To Eternity via the worldwide web, and increasingly through live performance, carries the tradition forward with its increasing range of unexpected song entering the fray and at times resisting the direction, of today’s media hype and imagery. Founding member Kelly McKee was born in the outlying middle-class suburbs of Chicago during August of 1968, a year of social discontent, upheaval, and riots. But, overall he was raised in a good home of racial heritage -influenced adolescence.  However, even circumstances like these can produce many conflicts among the youth and Kelly would learn how to be fighting tough while growing up.  Musical learning and appreciation were also emphasized by Kelly’s father as well as extended family in Wisconsin, and he would spend time absorbing classical music theory by listening with a bust of Ludwig van Beethoven perched atop Bozak speakers, thus growing an interest in musical composing. Much later part of Kelly’s family would end up moving far out west to Reno, Nevada to live near the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At around age 19 he began picking up guitar, playing at night in a glass-enclosed auto service station where he worked, and where a fellow co-worker was a first guitar teacher. This experience had built upon earlier music lessons on recorder, piano, and violin. From there, self-teaching took over as he found the ultimate musical instrument for self-expression, and mastery soon started to develop thereafter. Musical inspiration was found in the great scenic mountains all around. After working in myriad labor jobs, including one in manufacturing in which he would come out covered in black soot at the end of swing shift, Kelly would return to college in 1995. Rather than letting music blend over into his college studies, he began majoring in math and science and would eventually earn an Engineering Physics diploma. He specialized in optical engineering, fulfilling a lifelong quest. After that, he was recruited to work in the defense industry in the area of high-energy lasers development. All-in-all, he would accumulate fifteen years engineering experience and remains interested in the field today. But musical inspiration remained constant throughout those years of efforts. In fact, the compositions "I'll Never Be Your Automaton" and "Statue Courtyard", in the form of basic guitar recordings and essays about the music, were turned in for creative final writing credit in a history course, to pass! One thing that demarcates Kelly and shows through in his songwriting centers around observation of his own cultural times. According to Kelly: "Rather than being divorced from the past, my generation didn't like being force-fed culture.." His music also displays good comprehension of the history of peoples from across the earth, and quite expertly has made use of culture -based tonality in composition. This is the case in the acoustic 'Centurion's Outpost', in which tonality matches an ancient Roman setting. This was accomplished through derivation of a new guitar open tuning, E-Ab-Db-G-Bb-D, that either was unknown before or more likely was extremely rarely ever used in guitar history; and required invention of new chord patterns in order to transpose progressions in the theoretical score to fit the neck of the instrument. Then there's 'Statue Courtyard', in which there are Prokofiev -influenced dissonance scenes artfully constructed to give a foreground-background sound between two guitars, for great depth and realism. The complexity of the recording is successful in representing a system in overthrow, almost in a film noir stylistic form. Stressed throughout is real instrument recorded in real time, with apparently much less dependency placed upon sequenced and sampled instruments. Although it is an emerging world unto itself, the work shows artificial instrument can never fully replace the immediacy, detailed sound, or self-disciplined impact of real instrument mastery and tone. Album one You're Lost has surpassed nearly all other entries in rock/metal music in poignancy and growing relevancy, with parallel themes and subjects that underlie the political science topics of the times. Looking ahead to 2025 and beyond; the music of Windows To Eternity will now have the support of fully developed and completed studio environs. Says Kelly: "They are being used to conclude Album No. 2: Dark Day Of The Arena in high fashion, and make the way for embarking on new musical journeys with great variety in recorded stereoscopic tone, never available before". Stay tuned-- Vive le Musique ! Copyright August 2024, KM Productions.

This is a music video that was filmed two years ago, but was scrapped and made the wise decision to keep it private. At the same time, I will also release a 2 minute 26 second short video that combines the scrapped footage with choreography practice footage from the dance studio. Since October 15th, YouTube short videos can be up to 3 minutes long. Lol The music video to be released tonight is the "Dedication Dance for World Peace" version of the song "Now and Forever" set in the only DESERT in Japan, which located in Izu Oshima. ~~~~~ So, why did I scrap it and make it private two years ago? ~~~~~ This is because of the "pain in my heart that I can now speak out loud." The filming dates are "November 26th and 27th, 2022." Two years ago, I decided to shoot a music video in the great outdoors, dancing to my own song, because it might be the only one and last MV I could make. I decided to do so, and spent time and money to make this music video. However, I also did location hunting for the first time in my life, and for the first time in my life, I learned that video production requires "storyboards". In particular, I would be shooting with four female dancers. Video production requires a "blueprint" called a "storyboard." For me, I also needed to create original costumes to match the worldview of the song. Everything was a first-time challenge for me, beyond the scope of what an individual artist could handle. In short, I wanted to be filmed as a beautiful artist, like a goddess or a heavenly maiden in a red dress. However, I continued to have "conflicts" about the video production, faced with the worldviews of "world peace" and "gratitude to the great nature of the earth." It was really hard. I wanted it to be taken beautifully. It was a music video that might be the only one I could leave behind through my life. In this music video, I use blue clothes to represent the Earth, green clothes to represent Mother Nature, and a white headband to represent the movement of the wind. As a result, I ended up looking like a wild samurai, a monk, or a Shugendo practitioner. Tears I wanted to be a celestial maiden in a red dress, but a wild samurai in a blue outfit! Laughing out loud Yes, after two years, I can laugh about it now. I can confidently say that I am the only woman in the world who would film in a costume like this! After two years, I can forgive myself for looking like a Shugendo monk in a blue outfit. Also, a friend who recently saw my "rejected video" said to me, "I think it's good that it represents the "Age of Wind." This was also the reason I decided to release my "rejected video." 99% of the music videos on the market are either sex appealing r feature women dancing in miniskirts. This video is a one-of-a-kind music video that goes against all the current trends that say "music artists must be young and beautiful", "miniskirts showing off slender legs", and "captivating with fast-paced dance moves". I would be happy if you could experience the great nature of the Earth and the Age of Wind. With lots of love from SpaceWind

Ah, “Aja”—a classic gem by Steely Dan! Released in 1977 as the title track of their sixth studio album, it’s a jazz-infused masterpiece that showcases the band’s musical prowess. Now, let’s dive into the Billboard chart history, shall we? “Aja” reached an impressive number three on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart! That’s quite the achievement. And not just that—it also climbed to number five on the UK Albums Chart. Clearly, it struck a chord with listeners worldwide. Listen to the audio clip and watch the reaction video to learn more about this iconic Jazz fusion masterpiece. The songwriters, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, played guitar and synthesizer, respectively, on the track. However, they enlisted studio musicians for other parts. Fagen sang lead vocals, and production duties were handled by Gary Katz. Notably, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter and drummer Steve Gadd made their first appearances in this song. Gadd’s drum solo in the song’s tag was recorded in just two takes, making it the first drum solo in a Steely Dan track.