Year : 2018
Style : Melodic Rock , AOR
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 179 mb
Bio:
Carl Brett Walker (November 14, 1961 – July 8, 2013) was an American songwriter, musician, and record producer.Walker was involved in music publishing on TV and film. As singer-songwriter, musician, and publisher Walker's music was heard on over 300 network television shows, including One Life to Live, All My Children, The Young and the Restless, One Tree Hill, Felicity, CSI: Miami, Everwood, Malcolm in the Middle, Baywatch, and Sex and the City, National Lampoon's Barely Legal.Walker was born in Norman, Oklahoma, United States.At the age of 21, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he worked as a songwriter and collaborated with a number of artists and songwriters, including Survivor, Nick Gilder, Jonathan Cain (Journey), Russ Ballard, Carl Dixon and Alias featuring Freddy Curci.In 1991, Walker co-wrote the song "Waiting for Love" for the band Alias on EMI Capitol Records, and it went on to become Walker's first top-10 international hit. The Alias CD earned platinum sales throughout the world, and the song "Waiting for Love" received a BMI Award for top radio airplay that year.Walker's first solo record, Nevertheless, released in 1994, launching his solo career in Europe. David Prater produced four songs from the CD, the rest was produced by Walker or co-written and produced by Jonathan Cain. The CD was released on Empire Records in Europe and Japan, and reached the top-40 national sales charts in Scandinavia.[citation needed] Nevertheless, was again released in 2012 on Dive Bomb Records.Walker's latest album, Straight Jacket Vacation, produced by Walker and Weston Hodges, released through AOR Heaven in August 2013.Walker died at his home in Draper Utah on July 8, 2013, at the age of 51.He leaves behind his widow and three children from his previous marriage (divorced 2007).
Album:
To be released next January 11, 2019, "Last Parade" is a 6-disc box set of the late, great singer / songwriter BRETT WALKER, including unreleased, never before heard material. This advance titled "Highlights From The Last Parade" features a bunch tracks taken from the box.This is where Brett began his songwriting career collaborating with such writers as Nick Gilder, Jonathan Cain, Jim Peterik, Jeff Paris and others. Included here is Brett's own demo version of his first top-10 single “Waiting For Love” (co-written with Paris) recorded by the band Alias in 1991.The tracks you do recognize are mostly in a different form. Ballad versions or rockers; alt-mixes; heavier guitar versions, etc.This set is a veritable treasure trove of classic Brett Walker representing his various career paths – AOR, melodic rock, rock&pop, acoustic – anthems, ballads and those classic singalong songs only Brett Walker can do.While sound quality varies throughout, for the most part the material featured here is top notch, from pre-production demos to home made recordings, finished songs.A collector's item.
Line-Up:
Brett Walker – Lead Vocals, Keyboards, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass
Tracklist:
CD1:
01 - Branded
02 - A Little Too Late
03 - Still A Dream Away (Demo Version)
04 - Undercover Love (Brian Jones / Brett Walker Vocals)
05 - Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
06 - Waiting For Love (1989 take)
07 - Lecia
08 - I'll Be Seeing You Around
09 - Out Of Sight
10 - American Dreamer (Rock Version)
11 - Careless Night
12 - Last Parade
13 - Fools Paradise
14 - No Sense Fallin' In Love
15 - Undercover Love (live)
16 - Burning In The 3rd. Degree (live)
CD2:
01 - Undercover Love
02 - Don't Turn Out The Lights (Guitar Mix)
03 - Catchin' On (SJV Sessions)
04 - One Night Away
05 - Heaven Stops The Rain
06 - Eye For Love
07 - Always A Place
08 - No Sense In Falling (Extended)
09 - I'll Never Be The Same
10 - Everything I Want To Do (Piano Ballad Version)
11 - No Fire Without You (Keyboard Mix)
12 - Crossroads Motel (91-93 Demo)
13 - More Than A Memory
14 - Hard To Find An Easy Way
15 - No Shortcut To Paradise
16 - I'll Never Be The Same (take 2)
17 - Waiting 4 Love (live)
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