Twenty Tomorrow FINALLY on iTunes

If you have looked around the photoblog, chances are you’ve come across photos of Ben Rector. I spent time hanging out with him in studios Norman and Oklahoma City a year and a half ago as he recorded his first full length album. The album, titled Twenty Tomorrow, is absolutely fantastic, and although it has officially been out for over a year now, it has just now made its way to the iTunes store (as a result of unforeseen problems.) Regardless, chances are you haven’t heard it yet, so you should download it. It is $8.91 for the full album, DRM free; you can’t beat that. As an added bonus, it just happens to come with cover art i shot and designed (although that might be boasting a little too much, because it is a very very simple design) at absolutely no extra charge.

This cover actually has a great story behind it, which involves us sneaking into a library with a large lighting kit, shooting for about an hour, and finally getting found out/kicked out as we were packing up to leave. In the end I think the guerrilla tactics worked pretty well.

Anyway, Twenty Tomorrow is a great album from start to finish. To exhibit the start, here is the first track on the album, Bright Lights. Listen. Enjoy. Buy.

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In addition to his first album making it onto iTunes, Ben has just finished recording his new album/a split ep set… He’s not sure how it will be released yet, but her is what I have been told. There are twelve songs, six acoustic, six electric. I have heard several very rough mixes of the acoustic tracks. They are a bit folky, and I really enjoyed what I heard and can’t wait to hear them after being cleaned up. I have to say I am most impressed with the lyrical content of the songs I heard. Ben is really growing as a songwriter and hearing just a few tracks has made me gitty to digest the content of the others. Read his blog from the recording process at http://benrector.blogspot.com/.