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Another living room show and a cafe gig in Wichita in July! Check out the details on the Tour page. The sets will be made up of mostly original material, but I’m adding some covers from Radiohead, R.E.M., Neutral Milk Hotel and The Cox Family. It’ll be a lot…
Things are stabilizing here just a bit. My new son, born on July 11, is happy (as far as I can tell) and doing well! As all you parents know, the challenge now is to find any spare time. When I do find spare time, I’ll be working toward…
Child coming soon…My wife is ready to not be pregnant and we are ready to see our new son. In the meantime, videos on YouTube also coming soon…
Two big events for me this year: the release of the new album and my new son, Max. The album is due in September, but my son is due in July and my wife and I are very excited. FAMILY FIRST, but I’m still writing when I can, so…
I started writing songs in 1997 by taking the poetry of my father, James Preston Girard (since he’s my dad, I’ll plug his best novel, “The Late Man”), written when he was a teenager, and setting it to music. The first song I wrote all by my self that…
Much respect and thanks to R.E.M., Radiohead, Bob Bylan, The Beatles, Soundgarden, Van Morrison, The Black Crowes, Lucinda Williams, Nanci Griffith, Emmylou Harris, Indigo Girls, Counting Crows, Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt, John Prine, John Mellencamp, Bob Seger, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Leadbelly, ELO for just being who…
My long-time friend, and guitarist extraordinaire, Jade Vincent Smith played at Californos in Westport with me last night (Wednesday, 09/23/09) and it was a great time. We’ve been polishing some new tunes and I’m hoping to get some streaming video of the performance up on this site…
Along Chicago was recorded at Strobe Recording in Chicago and produced by Jon Williams. In contrast with Preston's first album (Simple Life), Along Chicago is a rock album not driven mainly by guitar and percussion. Preston and Jon instead focused on texture and nuance, utilizing keyboards, strings and vocals to pace the album's mood.
Available for purchase as a CD or mp3 download at CD Baby.
Preston Girard's folk rock is rooted lyrically in the shifting dark and light of a Kansas plain and musically in the marriage of melody and mood. He began writing music in 1997 set to poetry written by his father, suspense novelist James Preston Girard. Two years later, Preston started writing his own lyrics. He recorded a 5-song demo in 1999 and in March of 2002 he released an eleven-track CD called "Simple Life".
"Simple Life" was recorded at Argyle Sound in Chicago and was produced by Jon Williams. The CD showcases Preston's ability to move from rock to folk to blues to country and has been compared to the music of R.E.M. and Toad the Wet Sprocket.
Released in 2002. Purchase as a CD or mp3 download at CD Baby. Preview songs at MySpace.
