FREE music TODAY only!!!

I have a new musical project I am doing called Big Chris & D'Bare Bones Band.  It is a rocked out blues project in the vein of Glenn Kaiser Band, ZZ Top, the Georgia Satellites, etc.  Today only, if you are interested in this style of blues, you can download the full album from my Bandcamp page for free.  Yes, FREE!!!!  Sure, you can pay if you want, but that is not required.  You get the full 12 songs with cover artwork for the bargain price of a click.

But hurry, as Bandcamp only allows for 200 freebies per month.  I have cross posted this on some huge blues pages on Facebook and hope to get an overwhelming response.

On the album, I wrote all of the songs, built and played my cigar box guitars, did all the bass, and performed all vocals except at the end of "You'll Shoot Your Eye Out".  I got 'dem blues!


https://dbarebonesband.bandcamp.com/

Well, I have to confess that I kept putting off getting this because we're so broke. But now I have a copy!

I hopefully have a new fan!

Woot!

Very cool!

I hope it catches on this way.  I have only had 5 people download it so far.  One was nice enough to tip $1.  It isn't about the money.  I just want people to hear the music and hopefully love it.

add one more to the list!!! Thank you!

5 songs in and I like it. One thing about the Blues is it's hard to sound original but you pull it off rather nicely. The tones those box guitars have kick serious butt! You have any pics?

Those are so bad arse!! Like I said earlier you have an original sound and style even though it's Blues and those box guitars are part of it!

The 4 string at the very top and the Batman guitars are two of my personal instruments.  Both were used on the album.  The "3rd Place" guitar has a twin called "1st Place".  I kept "1st Place" for myself and used it on the album, too.  "3rd Place" belongs to none other than Rex Scott of X-Sinner/GX Project fame.  At one time he was saying that it would appear on the next GX Project album.  I don't know if that is still his plan or not.

Pictures 2, 3, 6, 7, and 8 (the ammo can) were all sold.  I still have the round looking banjo one and will rework the tailpiece.  It just doesn't work for me.  The bottom two were made as gifts.  The white one belongs to a girl in my youth group.  The bottom was made for a man to take to the hospital to play while he was undergoing extensive chemo treatments for cancer.  He won that round but lost a few months later.  His family keeps it hanging in his room since they had some good memories of him playing and all of them singing together at the hospital.

There are several not showing here, though.I have built 21 or 22, I believe.

Nice work, man. If I had that talent I'd make me a custom Mandocello.

So I finally had the chance to put this on my phone and listen to about half of it on the way to work today. I really like it. Your voice is suited to it, the music is fun and down-homey (is that a word?) and the lyrics are really good. I particularly liked Punch in the Face and Life's Just Bad.

Life's Just Bad was annold somg I used tondo with my old baand Stressin'.  Most of it was made up, but the 2nd verse really happened to our drummer Bart in the same day.  He came to us during practice one week and told us about it.  I made a song about that!

Punch In The Face was just me asking in Facebook what made people want to punch someone.  I made a song from the most frequent answers.

As for my voice fitting the music, this album let me experiment.  My voice is a natural baritone and not realy suited for the metal style I tried with Mission of One.  Since there were little expectations because of this being a new project,  I just used what I had.  It worked!  I am also doing the harmony vocals.  The only time you won't hear me is the little spoken word thing at the end of the final song.  That is my brother trying to sound Chinese.  LOL

Chris,
Do you have any CDs left?

I sure do, Dale!

How do I order one? And how much would it be?
I'd rather order through you than  a Distro, so you will get more money from the sale.

The CD can be ordered direct from me for $10 shipped just about anywhere.  You can pay via PayPal at my user name here at Yahoo dot com.  If the PayPal notice contains your verified address, nothing more will need happen and I can get it out immediately.

Dale, I got your disc in the mail today.  Since you are in the state next door, you should have this in just a couple of days!


Where I did the free downloads, I had some good results.  I ended up leaving the freebies intact for several days.  I had 46 people get the album.  While I offered it free, I had many of those people pay anyway.  Some paid more than I was asking for the download before this!  I have made more off of offering free downloads than I have off of CDs since the first month this released.  Maybe I SHOULD be giving my music away!  LOL

Coolness!

I'm thinking about trying this.  Gotta get the tunes out.

With Bandcamp, you can give away 200 freebies per month.  Make sure when you set this up that you also mark the box that allows people to pay you more if they choose to.  I had some folks tip me $1.  I had a couple that gave me $7.77.  I had several people who wouldn't buy the album when I marked it down to $5 actually give $5 when they downloaded it for free.  Weird, huh?

Very weird!

As I posted on the band Facebook page, I really enjoyed the album. It's not my style, but I wasn't compelled to change it for something else when I was listening to it. The production was really good, too. I am impressed.

Yes the production is very good, some of the major labels could stand to take a few tips from your album. STOP maxing out everything to the point where it all runs together and causes ear fatigue.