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Busy Being Born by Alan Horvath
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fave it Folk Rock | like Joni
9 tracks | 40 minutes
Released Aug 1999
on Akashic Records
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Acoustic Rock ... for real. Live recordings of Alan with bassist Mike Toth (first 7 tracks) and Alan with his band (last 3 tracks). If you attended Rutgers University in '95 - '97, you probably saw Alan performing these songs in New Brunswick.
Bio / Background
Titled after the Bob Dylan lyric, "He not busy being born is busy dying ..." from the song titled "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding", Busy Being Born is an appropriate title for Alan's reappearance as a solo folk artist. This is Horvath's first CD release on the web - Akashic Records No.009 - a collection of early work-tapes (songs 1 - 7 : Alan w/bassist Mike Toth), followed by a "completed idea" (songs 8, 9 and 10 : Alan with his band). The cover photo was taken in 1992 in Nashville, Tennessee - by Rusty Rust.
The first seven cuts are from worktapes that were recorded live with Mike Toth playing bass guitar, in Toth's basement, 1996 - Piscataway, New Jersey ... some 16 or 17 songs were recorded on a Teac 4-track (reel-to-reel / 1/2" tape) during the two years Alan and Mike performed together. Here are the "best seven" ... Alan is playing his 1968 Gibson Hummingbird guitar with Mike Toth displaying his wonderful sense of melody on a Fender Jazz bass guitar.
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