This week’s artist, Ben Rector, is another great find from Brite Revolution. Brite is a great site to get new music and support some amazing causes. The best part is that it is now FREE!! Brite is changing some things around and will be pursuing other ways to support the charities and making the music free for you! So if you haven’t signed up yet you are passing on some amazing music. Seriously, sign up. Now. I’ll wait.
Click here. Did you do it? You won’t regret it. Free remember? Done? Good. OK, now that you’ve signed up let's get back to Ben. Ben Rector is an amazing unsigned singer/songwriter out of Nashville who has been touring around with Dave Barnes recently and recording some fantastic music.
Ben started his songwriting while at University of Arkansas and has made his way to the top of the iTunes charts. His recent album,
Into The Morning, released February 2010 made it to #5 in iTunes Pop and #10 overall. Ben supports Mocha Club on Brite, which raises funds for Africa by asking you to donate just $7 a month, the price of two mochas at Starbucks. Pretty easy I think. In addition to his new album and the tracks you can get free on Brite (another plug), you can download his other releases,
Songs That Duke Wrote and
Twenty Tomorrow as well as his holiday release,
Jingles and Bells for Christmas time.
Ben is back touring on the Eastern regions of the U.S. but I’m hoping he’ll make his way out to L.A. soon so I can check out his live show. Ben looks to be a great piano player and I have a bit of a weakness for men who play the piano… oops, did I just share that with you all?
I hope you enjoyed this week’s artist. There isn’t too much info on Ben out there but his music is really all you need. Check out his websites and make sure to comment below and let me know what you think.
All Photos by Chris Galegar
2 comments:
I think Ben is one of my favorite artists that you've posted in a while. Not that I don't like giving all the artists you post a try... but I will always have a special place in my heart for raspy male vocalists. =)
Hey, this is an awesome blog you have here! I've been listening to Ben's music lately and I've been looking for the lyrics to his songs. I bought all his albums on itunes and it doesn't come with the song lyrics. :( Do you have any of them? Thanks!!
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