Stephen Foster & Howler "Howl At The Moon"
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Americana / Blues / Blues Rock
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Location:
AMERICA NORTH: USA:Florida (FL) -
Record Label:
WhiteHorse Records -
Website:
howler.biz -
AirPlay Direct Link:
AirPlayDirect.com/stephenfosterhowler
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Tied Up In The Blues
Genre: Americana
WAV (03:18) [33.25 MB] -
Take Me Back Biloxi
Genre: Americana
MP3 (04:20) [9.92 MB] -
Thinkin' About My Baby
Genre: Americana
MP3 (03:50) [8.77 MB] -
She's Gone
Genre: Americana
MP3 (04:15) [9.72 MB] -
I Live For You
Genre: Americana
MP3 (05:13) [11.96 MB] -
Long Way Home
Genre: Americana
WAV (04:02) [40.79 MB] -
Little Things
Genre: Americana
MP3 (03:18) [7.56 MB] -
Bling
Genre: Americana
WAV (03:28) [35 MB] -
Gasoline
Genre: Americana
MP3 (02:14) [5.12 MB] -
Talk Talk
Genre: Dream
WAV (03:30) [35.31 MB] -
River
Genre: Americana
WAV (03:47) [38.13 MB] -
Long Long Road
Genre: Americana
WAV (02:56) [29.59 MB] -
Honey Chile
Genre: Blues
WAV (04:10) [41.98 MB] -
Money Won't Come
Genre: Americana
WAV (06:49) [68.8 MB]
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Biography
"Howl At The Moon" Hi-Rez Downloads "Howl At The Moon"DownloadsOther Stephen Foster & Howler Albums:
"Demo Blues" 2011 "Demo Blues""
"Howl At The Blues" 2006"Howl At The Blues"
"Swingin' The Blues" 2011 "Swingin' The Blues""
Contact: howler@howler.biz
Stephen Foster & Howler
Nominated: 2011 CMA Awards "CMA Single Of The Year" for "She's Gone"
Nominated: 2011 CMA Awards "CMA Album Of The Year" for "Howl At The Moon"
Nominated: 2007 AMA Awards "Emerging Artist of The Year"
Nominated: 2007 Muscle Shoals Music Awards "Best Blues Album of The Year"
These are songs about my life, family, childhood, dreams. "Bling" is pretty obvious. All that bling a working musician can't usually have. "Take Me Back Biloxi" written by Tommy Miles, my good California hippie friend, cut on the mountain with Eddie Russell, Jay Jernigan and Larry Hartsfield. "Tied Up In The Blues" written in FL because I wanted a blues shout song to start up concerts with. "Thinkin' About My Baby" was another Eddie/Jay/Larry session song written sometime in '07. "She's Gone", (Eddie/Jay/Larry), is about my maternal grandmother, who raised 9 children in the Great Depression, outlived 2 of them, and chose her day to die. Yatahay, Gran. Gary Vance played the haunting harmonica track. "I Live For You" had a working title of "You've been Lying To Me", but Spooner convinced me not to write negative songs, so I rewrote it. This is the first song I played standard guitar lead on after cutting off my left hand in '86. The hand was reattached, but mostly numb for 20 years. Now I can play a little, and enjoyed cutting all the instruments on this track. "Long Way Home" came to me in a dream early morning in Huntsville, AL in '02. I woke up, wrote it down, Trish drove me to the studio muttering to myself, and I cut most of this track right then. "Little Things" is about my childhood on the Tennessee River sloughs, another solo track. "Gasoline", (Eddie/Jay/Larry) was originally "Get Up" and morphed into this. "Talk Talk" was done on my Korg PA80, the whole track live at one cut. "River" was another of the Eddie/Jay/Larry Howler sessions. "Long Long Road" was written on tour with Tommy York in '05 somewhere in the Dakotas. Tommy & Spooner Oldham co-wrote on this. I got drunk one night and just puked "Honey Chile" out (Eddie/Jay/Larry). Written in 10 minutes. "Money" was a warmup jam before a session on the mountain (Eddie/Jay/Larry) and I hit the "record" button. The guitar ID riff and vocals came 6 months later. I sure hope you like this collection of songs. I'm totally subjective after a cumulative recording time of 8 years, but I still enjoy listening to it, the songs come through, and in the end, that's really all I'm after.
Steve
Stephen Foster's professional music background goes back to 1969 in Muscle Shoals, AL, where he grew up. The list of musicians he's worked with in studio or onstage is a veritable who's who of American music. His music education however, started much earlier, in the 50s, when radio consisted of stations like WLS and WSM at night, and the playlist was as varied as imaginable. Jazz, Blues, Country, Texas Swing, Pop and early R&B all played side-by-side. His father, a stride jazz pianist, and his mother, a contralto jazz torch singer, insisted on a music education for their children. Piano lessons started at age 5, and the home was filled with music of all styles, but the records most played by his father were big band swing, Chet Atkins, and Pete Fountain. These influences led to the style Stephen displays to this day, stylish grooves and powerful choruses, forays into the country's rich musical past, and a willingness to let a song flow without pressing it into any genre.
Stephen picked up guitar at age 11, bass at age 13, and was playing out at age 14 in talent contests and local shows. At 19, after a year in college and a Summer spent in California meeting musicians, he walked into Broadway Sound in Muscle Shoals and naively asked for session work. Amazingly enough, he had come at the exact day when the guitarist for the Percy Sledge session didn't show up, and his studio work began in earnest.
Publishing and production contracts followed. His session credits are legendary. Record deals and concerts and sessions were steady through the 70s, but by '78 he was through with labels, and he went "Indie", starting WhiteHorse Records in Virginia. He made his living singing jingles at Alpha Audio in Richmond alongside Steve Bassett ("The Heartbeat Oh America") and other great ad singers.
Stephen opened Howler Recording in Memphis in 1981 and ran the studio for 10 years until burnout pushed him out of the business for 7 years in the 90s. He didn't write a song or step foot in a studio during that time. Instead, he concentrated on his photography
In 2001, revitalized and refreshed, he reentered the music business, entering into a partnership in MillKids/Howler studio in Huntsville, AL. His first album recorded there "Howler", released in 2002, produced the international hit "The Mighty Field Of Vision Anthem". He moved his studio to a mountaintop lodge in 2004, releasing "Howl At The Blues" in 2006. The album hit the charts in 2007, charting at #37 nationally and staying on the charts for 10 months and gaining national FM rotation with 6 songs. Hits from that album include "Mad As Hell", "Mama's Goin' Dancin' When The train Comes Home", and "Changing Times".
The new album is "Howl At The Moon", and the depth of songs is obvious. A more varied approach, with deeper lyrics and wider range of styles opens up his catalog of songs. Collaborating with famed songwriter Spooner Oldham on some of the material, his vision of translating songs from the "Radio In The Sky" has become apparent, and the album shows it. A fierce indie, he was heavily involved in the internet drive to break the major labels' stranglehold on musicians and songwriters.
At age 61 Stephen has become a legendary figure in Southern music history. His songs are lasting, his voice is still amazingly vigorous, his musicianship is better than ever. The new album showcases his extraordinary talent and vision.
"It ain't over 'till it's over"
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