My Halloween Album
by Jason Hannah on Oct.27, 2009, under My Projects
In the last post, I talked about my current songwriting team BHP, but in that post I mentioned that I have done lots of oddball little projects with James Blair (the B in BHP). When just the two of us do things together, we work under a project name of “Surviving Myself”.
Last year when Casey’s other obligations were keeping him from working regularly with us, Jim and I decided to we wanted to make an album. We decided to make a holiday album, but since EVERYBODY does Christmas albums these days (everybody… Jim bought me a Twisted Sister Christmas album last year) we decided to do a Halloween album instead.
We found out quick that doing a Halloween album was the perfect avenue for stretching your legs creatively. It was tons of fun.
We did an album that tells a story of a young couple who’s car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. They go looking for help, and they (of course) stumble across a haunted house. Inside there is a scientist who is doing some creepy things (of course), so the young couple runs for their lives.
Simple, cheesy story… tons of fun to do in music form.
Check it out by going here… Surviving Myself – Halloween Night
Listen to the songs in order so that you get the feel. The entire album is only 28 minutes long.
So now, to you people reading this… start thinking… is there a holiday album you can start writing that is out of the ordinary?
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