The 13-track album titled Grand Man will be released by Congrats Records, an independent record label founded by Paramore’s Zac Farro
Much earlier Hayley Williamssinger of Paramorethink about being born, your grandfather, Rusty Williamshe recorded an album that was never released. Until now. The man, now 78, recorded the songs with his friend and producer Frank Morris and shared the material with his niece and on Feb. 14 great man will be available.
“I don’t expect anything and I’m too old to be famous,” he said in a statement. “But I just want to know that someone liked what I did, and be touched by whatever they’re listening to. I want people to see what it was like when things were real.”
“Knock (on your door)“, the album’s first single, is out now. The lyrics are about a couple looking for reconciliation: “What will it take to win back your love?/Open your heart and let my love in,” asks Why should Shall we part?/You’re mine from the start/You won’t tell me, tell me now.”
Fifty years ago, the song was the most requested song during the three- to six-week period after a local Mississippi radio station played it, he recalls. Rusty. “And I haven’t done anything to her yet!”
“A lot of people our age are looking for tones and things in these albums that you can’t even replicate,” Hayley shared. “AND Grandat he knows how to get straight to the heart of a feeling without overly complicating it. Which we tend to do, because the world is difficult. It’s nice when you can hear something plain and simple and know it’s true.”
The launch of great man will be done by Congratulations Recordindependent record label founded by Zac Farrofrom Paramore“I thought it was a crime that these songs were there on the shelf,” the musician said of the album. Taylor YorkAlso participating in the process was , the third member of the band, responsible for the digitization of the material.
You write things and you want someone to take something away from it,” he said. Rusty. “I just had to wait for a niece and a band with her to actually do something with mine,” the singer said.
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