Sharewater
Sharewater is more of an idea than a band yet the idea has produced a wide variety of sounds, messages and tunes.
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Hero Hero
This tune was never released on an album but was performed on piano in several venues. It was one of nathan's best vocals. It is Uncle Dave's religious biography.
Cry Like A Man Cry Like A Man
11. Cry Like A Man features Laura Brown and Crystal Walk on background vocals and is one of those 'sensitive male of the nineties' things. 'Now and then the strangest things seem to set me off -- A vet inside his wheel chair -- the way my baby wal
Driftin' Away Driftin' Away
Divorces, ugly as they are, aren't always altogether unexpected.
Chill Chill
Chill was created to combat riot fever in the aftermath of the 2nd Rodney King trial in Los Angeles.
Love Ya Too Much Love Ya Too Much
17. The cruise ship crew meets the midnight marauders again on this pounding dance ditty. We got a charge out of some LA critics who blasted Love Ya Too Much for its '70's synth horn section' but I promise you those players were live, breathing an
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Nathan Brown is a poet, musician, photographer, or problem... depending on who's talking. His mission is to take back poetry from the hard, academic grip of the ivory tower and the brooding, beret-sporting-village-types who all too often use poetry for personal therapy and the excorsism of parental issues... both being good reasons audiences for poetry have run for the hills in the United States.
Nathan travels widely--without the aid of maps--offering readings, creativity workshops, and photography exhibitions in an effort to bring back the hint of a smile and the hope for a good story in poems... poems unafraid of making sense... poems that carry us to better places.
He's published four books of poetry: Hobson's Choice (2002); Ashes over the Southwest (2005); Suffer the Little Voices (2005--a finalist for the 2006 Oklahoma Book Award); and just this last December, his new book from Mongrel Empire Press, Not Exactly Job (2007--a finalist for the 2008 Oklahoma Book Award).
He worked as a professional songwriter and musician for fifteen years in and around Oklahoma City, Nashville, and Austin. He has also performed in Israel and Russia, and worked with artists like Cynthia Clawson, Billy Crockett, Michael Johnson, and Tom Wopat. He's recorded five of his own albums. The two most recent are "Why in the Road" and "Driftin' Away."
Nathan holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Creative and Professional Writing from the University of Oklahoma. He currently teaches for the Human Relations and Liberal Studies departments at the University of Oklahoma and has also served as the Artist-in-Residence at the University of Central Oklahoma.
In his spare time, he conducts careful and methodical research on which restaurants actually do make the more "perfect" Perfect Margarita, and watches Northern Exposure reruns.
To book a reading or workshop, contact Ashley Stanberry at: nub@mongrelempire.orgBand/artist history
In April 1993, their anti-riot tune, Chill, was first showcased on the front page of the Norman Transcript and then blazed across CBS, CNN, USA Today and the AP into 30,000 Los Angeles school classrooms. Nearly half a million L.A. school kids studied it's meaning. Final Edition's host Bill Oreilly referred to them as "Two friends from Oklahoma."
They have no agent, no record company, no publicists yet Chill was introduced internationally to TV airwaves in a video hosted by Arnold Schwarzennegger and Arsenio Hall. Carol Arnold's interview with the two writers on KTOK would be rebroadcast nationwide on the Sunday morning Top Ten Talk Countdown. It's announcer referred to them as "two obscure writers from Oklahoma."
In 1994, their song Window on The World hit Los Angeles' television airwaves as a part of a four hour special called Violence in the Media. It's video, prepared by producer Gloria McMillan, shows hundreds of images of violence culled from just one day of west coast TV programming.
Who are those guys?
Those guys are Nathan Brown, prolific poet and pop artist who sings, plays, co-writes and produces the lyrics his partner Uncle Dave provides him.
Brown, of Norman, OK, is a journeyman composer and performer who has played venues in places as far away as Israel and Russia and as close to home as Nashville and Falls Creek. Equally at home in the contemporary Christian and adult contemporary format he has released cassettes, CDs and music videos that span a wide spectrum of styles. Says Uncle Dave, "The lyrics are my life. The songs are Nathan's heart. No one I have ever worked with brings more to and out of a song than Nathan. His musical and interpretive skills defy description."
Uncle Dave the lyricist prefers anominity. Their July 1997 anthology CD "Nathan Brown..Driftin Away" includes twenty-two, count them, 22 songs featuring a consortia of singers, co-writers, pickers and players that hang at Michael McCarty's Carumbo recording studio in Norman. The songs are about love, TV violence, love, apartheid, love, media, love, abortion, love.. (well, you get the picture.) Says Brown, "CD technology makes the Driftin' Away anthology a smart choice for our listeners since they can program the album of their choice. We have a solid selection of our tunes which highlight adult contemporary, alternative, techno, rhythm and blues, jazz and folk styles. " The album is available online.
Says Brown, "Greg Hill always seems to be around, providing background vocals and the much acclaimed second acoustic guitar. My 'sound' would simply not exist without the magic he weaves into everything. Michael McCarty's engineering and drums and his brother Mark McCarty's live percussion always sweeten the mix on our tracks. John Martinez and Mike McKinney have several kicking co-writes with us. Norman area session men Victor Rook, Terry Scarberry, Rick Wright, Steve Short, Gary Riley, Sean Snyder, Jonathan Christie, John Hodges, Earl Day and "Rocky" Franklin are the guys that help make us happen."
Who are those guys?Have you performed in front of an audience?Live is good. Studios are great. Lyrics can be wonderful. Spoken poetry is sublime. Written poetry doth suffice.
Your musical influences
Billy Crockett, Jimmy Webb, Paul Simon, The Beatles and Bob DylanContact
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