Travis Shawn Hill - Happy Birthday!

[travis shawn hill]

I just finished this thing. It's called "Happy Birthday!" It's free! Download it!

My latest album, as well as its companion webbum, has just been launched. You can download the album free of charge by clicking here. If you dig it, you can donate to access the exclusive webbum, which is a complete online aural/visual/literary experience. Think back to the days when you'd bring home a record from the store, put it on, and spend hours admiring the album art, memorizing the lyrics and feeling a certain smug satisfaction in being clued in on all the inside jokes in the liner notes. That novelty has all but disappeared in today's world of instant internet gratification. The launch of Happy Birthday as a webbum is an attempt to reclaim some of that lost joy, an opportunity for people to slow down and take at least a few minutes out of their day to enjoy the entirety of the musical/artistic experience.

http://travisshawnhill.com/happybirthday

Love,

Travis

[DudeAsInCool]

Travis has been playing music since he was five years old. He was recently featured on NPR -thanx for sharing

"Travis Shawn Hill wanted to prove you don't need a major record label to put out an album... or a band, for that matter. Using a home computer and a couple of microphones, the singer-songwriter from Santa Cruz, Calif. wrote and recorded more than a dozen songs in February and posted them online for this year's RPM Challenge. The album he came up with is called "A Bright Wind", featuring the infectiously upbeat song "Sing." "[The track] was written and recorded in an afternoon, in order to cheer myself up," says Hill. "Its message is a simple one: that happiness comes from within", which is a message that resonates throughout the album, A Bright Wind. Hill has been playing music since he was five. After forming and playing with a number of bands in high school and college, he decided to go solo. He says A Bright Wind is "devoted to the idea that each life is defined solely by the person living it, and that to experience life to the fullest, it is necessary to pursue one's dream, whether that dream be constant throughout one's life, or constantly changing."

I really like the tunes "Get Back Home" and " On and On" ... nice stuff, Travis. Listening to more