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Allen is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft, but he’s also been a guitar player and songwriter since his teenage years. His first-ever album, ‘Everywhere at Once,’ arrives via Sony Legacy on Aug. 5. Proceeds from the sales of ‘Everywhere at Once”s will go toward the EMP Museum‘s educational programs. Allen demonstrates his electric guitar skills quite nicely on ‘Straw Into Gold,’ which also features Nancy Wilson on mandolin and a particularly dynamic and intense lead vocal from her sister Ann. You can keep up with all of Allen’s charitable and music efforts at his official website, PaulAllen.com.
Added August 7th 2013: KPLU.org: Although most of the songs were written before the guest artists were selected, Allen did write one song with a particular artist in mind, Ann Wilson from Heart. “I was thinking about her approach to singing, and that amazingly powerful voice that she has when I wrote ‘Straw Into Gold’. I had no idea whether she and Nancy were going to like it. And they did, so that was fantastic,” Allen said. Wilson is a longtime friend of Allen’s. “He likes to rock and roll in the true sense, and is fortunate enough to be able to do it exactly the way he wants,” Wilson said. And sometimes “the way he wants” can be pretty unorthodox. “The side of him that always is a mystery to me, an exciting mystery to me, is the whole submarine thing. ‘Let’s take a band over to Europe for five weeks and just go jam on a submarine.’ I mean, nothing is impossible, nothing is unthinkable for Paul Allen; he can do what he likes. And so in there, inside that quiet respectful person somewhere is a wild man,” Wilson said. (Thanx Danie for the find!)
only in your dream(s).In the infamous words of John” just had to let it go”.
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