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Think Out Loud: Music Serving the Homeless

Think Out Loud: Music Serving the Twin Cities is a compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

where 100% of the album profits go directly to serving the homeless in the Twin Cities

Twin cities

Twin cities are a special case of two cities or urban centres which are founded in close geographic proximity and then grow into each other over time...

, through charitable giving to agencies like Sharing and Caring Hands and St. Stephens.

The project was launched and produced by Tyler Blanski

Tyler Blanski

-Tyler Blanski :Tyler Blanski is an American author, musician, and record producer based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota.-Biography:...

, a Minnesota writer and musician. Local musicians/bands Charlie Parr

Charlie Parr

Charlie Parr is an American country blues musician, born in Austin, Minnesota, United States. He started his music career in Duluth, Minnesota. His influences include Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Reverend Gary Davis, and Dave Van Ronk. He plays a National resonator guitar, a fretless open-back...

, Cloud Cult

Cloud Cult

Cloud Cult is an experimental indie rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota led by singer/songwriter Craig Minowa. The name originated from the ancient prophecies of indigenous North Americans.-History:...

, Chris koza, Pieta Brown

Pieta Brown

Pieta Brown is an American musician and singer-songwriter who has released four critically acclaimed albums and three EPs in the last decade. She has performed with artists such as Mark Knopfler, John Prine, Amos Lee and Calexico.-Early life:...

, The Pines, Roma di Luna, Dave Simonett of Trampled by Turtles

Trampled By Turtles

Trampled By Turtles is a progressive bluegrass band from Duluth, Minnesota. The group is most famous for its high-tempo, fast-paced songs but also features lead vocalist Dave Simonett's lyric writing abilities in slower ballads. Their high-energy concerts have attracted an ever-growing,...

, Ben Kyle of Romantica, Psalm One

Psalm One

Psalm One is a Chicago-based hip hop artist described as a cross between Lauryn Hill and Devin the Dude. Psalm One was born Cristalle Bowen in Englewood, where as a child she attended Church, singing in the choir and playing guitar, piano, organ, and drums. In junior high she began gravitating to...

, Jacqueline Ultan, Danny Warnock, George Hadfield, Josh Dekker, Mark Stockert, Meredith Rachel, Ashleigh Still and Chastity Brown

Chastity Brown

-Chastity Brown :Chastity Brown is a Knoxville, Tennessee-raised American musician based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota...

all submitted original musical composition

Musical composition

Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...

(s) or accompaniment

Accompaniment

In music, accompaniment is the art of playing along with an instrumental or vocal soloist or ensemble, often known as the lead, in a supporting manner...

to the album.

Think Out Loud is engineered by Adam Krinsky at the Minneapolis Media Institute and Mark Stockert at Underwood Studios, mixed by Adam Krinsky, and mastered by Tom Garneau at AUDIOACTIVE.

The effort to fight homelessness through music has raised some speculation.

Track listing

All songs by Tyler Blanski

Tyler Blanski

-Tyler Blanski :Tyler Blanski is an American author, musician, and record producer based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota.-Biography:...

, except where noted in parenthetical.

"Bethlehem" – 3:23
"Bourbon" – 3:57
"A Place" (Cloud Cult
Cloud Cult
Cloud Cult is an experimental indie rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota led by singer/songwriter Craig Minowa. The name originated from the ancient prophecies of indigenous North Americans.-History:...

) – 2:51
"Peter Pan" – 3:16
"The Mission" (Psalm One
Psalm One
Psalm One is a Chicago-based hip hop artist described as a cross between Lauryn Hill and Devin the Dude. Psalm One was born Cristalle Bowen in Englewood, where as a child she attended Church, singing in the choir and playing guitar, piano, organ, and drums. In junior high she began gravitating to...

) – 1:45
"Cecilia" Simon and Garfunkel
Simon and Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel are an American duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957 and had their first success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, largely on the strength of the...

, Arranged by Tyler Blanski – 4:29
"King of my Heart " (Pieta Brown
Pieta Brown
Pieta Brown is an American musician and singer-songwriter who has released four critically acclaimed albums and three EPs in the last decade. She has performed with artists such as Mark Knopfler, John Prine, Amos Lee and Calexico.-Early life:...

) – 2:27
"Pink Moon" (Nick Drake
Nick Drake
Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Though he is best known for his sombre guitar based songs, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...

, Arranged by Tyler Blanski – 3:58
"Wrong Side of the Road" – 2:48
"Pastures of Plenty" (Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...

, Arranged by Roma di Luna – 3:46
"Coat of Arms" (The Pines) – 4:53
"Ride Me High" (Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

, Arranged by Tyler Blanski – 4:19
"Viktorija" – 3:01
"Woke Up This Morning" (Chastity Brown
Chastity Brown
-Chastity Brown :Chastity Brown is a Knoxville, Tennessee-raised American musician based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota...

) – 3:39
"Halleluja " (Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...

, Arranged by Tyler Blanski – 2:45
"Love Me Or Leave Me" (Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon , better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music...

, Arranged by Tyler Blanski) – 3:28
"Birdless Sky" (The Farewell Circuit) – 4:22
"Jerusalem" – 5:10
"Think Out Loud"– 3:05
"My Prairie Home Companion Girl " – 3:12
"Ride" (Mark Stockert) – 4:50

External links

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