It's Cocktail Time in Mister Rogers Neighborhood...
Released
on: August 27, 2008, 3:43 am
Press Release Author: Claire Ratliff-Sears
/ Laughing Penguin Publicity
Industry:
Entertainment
Press
Release Summary: On Mister Rogers Swings! Nashville Jazz Cats
Pay Grown Up Tribute to Fred Rogers Musical Legacy.
New
album features Boots Randolph in one of his last sessions, Stuart
Duncan, Richard Smith and the Lori Mechem Trio backing vocalist
Holly Yarbrough in her solo debut.
Press
Release Body: Yarbrough is the daughter of sixties
folk singing tenor Glenn Yarbrough who rose to
fame with the Limeliters and continued to success as a solo artist
on RCA records.
Mister
Rogers Swings includes sixteen selections from the
Fred Rogers Songbook with a grown-up jazz sound. Yarbrough's
fresh, sly takes on Rogers classics like "You've
Got to Do It" and "I Like to Be Told"
are aimed squarely at adult audiences.
Yarbrough
produced the album on her own indie label, Vintage Discs.
"We did it on a wing, a prayer, and a home equity line
of credit" she says.
"It's
been a real labor of love for us all. We wanted more people to
really get the artistry of Fred Rogers' songwriting. When you
hear these songs out of their usual context, I think they fit
right up there in the Great American Songbook."
Though
the savvy interpretation might make Mister Rogers raise
an eyebrow, the heart of the record stays true to his kind nature.
Yarbrough finished the record while working for
Alive Hospice, where she is still employed.
"I'm
not a glamorous, spotlight oriented person, and I never expected
I'd be making my own album. But I had this talent I wasn't using...and
after Mister Rogers died, his words kept coming
back to me. He said: "...each one of us has something that
no one else has or will ever have – something inside that
is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to
discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing that
expression."
Mister
Rogers Swings is available nationwide at online retailers
and in stores through Infinity Entertainment Group.
About
the Artist
Holly
Yarbrough was born in Santa Monica, California. Her father, Glenn
Yarbrough is a well-known recording artist with over seventy albums
in his discography. Her Grandfather was a square dance caller
in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and her Grandmother sang with
the Paul Whiteman Orchestra.
Holly
has studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy, Bard College and
the Nashville Jazz Workshop. After attending at her Grandfather's
bedside while he was in hospice care, she began volunteering for
hospice through Compassion in Action.
Since
2006, she has worked for Alive Hospice in Nashville, Tennessee.
She is currently pursuing certification as a therapeutic musician
through the Music for Healing and Transition program.
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Web
Site: http://www.HollyYarbrough.com
Contact
Details: Claire Ratliff-Sears
Laughing Penguin Publicity
www.penguinpublicity.com
615.476.3200
615.216.2175 FAX
LaughingPenguin@comcast.net