Day 22: February 20th, 2010
Rex Strother

   Rex has been writing [“terrible” - his word] songs since 1977 and well into the 1980s, with his high school friend Don Foster for Don’s synth pop band, “Dreaming Out Loud”. The band even released a 45 back in the day of the Foster/Strother compositions “Cat and Mouse” and “Cold As That Summer Was.”
Flash forward to 2000, when Rex took up lyric writing again, and finding no musical collaborator, also was forced to pick up the acoustic guitar to write his own melodies. “I figured, if a dumb as ham country singer could play a guitar, I could too.” Rex does not “play out” as he is a shy flower of a man. And no, he does not write funny songs, oddly enough. He recently co-wrote songs with Chris Brunelli (“Storm” and “God And His Friends”), Mary McAdams (“Bubbles”) and Joel Kinser (“Leaving for Good”).
          

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  • Rex - Brave New Words
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Yesterday:
Jacqueline
Francis
 
Tomorrow:
Kate
Graves

Timmy Riordan

     Timmy has been called ‘the hidden gem” of the Somerville/Cambridge music scene. In February 2009 he wrote and posted 28 songs on his website. This year he’s doing it again.  He has also decided there should be 8 day in a week (in honor of the Beatles of course) and has invited 32 of his songwriting friends to support him through the month by each writing a song themselves. Over the last summer he recorded 8 of those songs on a CD entitled “Peter Let Me In.” Each CD includes an original cover, hand-drawn just for you in Sharpie by Timmy. Proceeds from this hand-crafted album are all going directed to the making of “New York’s Ignoring Me” his next studio album to be released in summer of 2010.