I looked back somewhat wistfully at my career as a minor league rock star. I had toured, in my youth with Jonathan Richman all over America and Europe and then had signed a two album deal on Warner Brothers touring with Robin Lane and the Chartbusters at every backwater club in the USA. Playing new wave night in Minneapolis and then driving 500 miles to open for the Kinks at the Providence civic center. I had shared the stage with a plethora of diverse acts through the eighties like Hall and Oates, The Cars, The Violent Femmes, The Ramones and hundreds of names too numerous to drop. Eventually I 'went for it" and produced six cds on my own as a solo artist. I helped produce and play in scores of Boston bands. Though those "glory days" seemed like yesterday,there was no denying my tenure as a wannabe rock matinee idol were over. Maybe a rock manatee idol!- But seriously, I thought to myself.. what next? If there is a next.-

So, it was with gratitude that I accepted the invitation by my neighbor, Jessie to help cobble together a band for their alternative farm school annual "harvest party".

Me and a bunch of other neighbors, including Bramblejam inmate, Jason Kern threw together a set of Eagles, Grateful Dead and Bowie songs and generally had a nice time entertaining.

Afterwards, I thought to myself, well that was that. It was fun but getting together to play cover songs didn't appeal to me despite Jessie's urging that we keep getting together to play. Then, simultaneously Jessie, Jason and I thought about the idea of writing some children's music. It seemed, with the synchronicity of it, that the hand of fate had beckoned. My dear friend Jay was staying with us at the time and had a Yamaha digital 12 track and we began meeting in my living room, my mother perched in the corner next to the wood stove, and started to piece together the songs that now comprise our album-"Move Your Boots"

What started out being a welcome distraction from my poor mother's pains and demands got "legs" and beat everybody's expectations about it. My mom loved listening to our baby legs concoctions.

We got Pam Manning, a local drum and vocal legend(The Chinese Cooks, Sarah Brooks) and Tim Jackson(Tom Rush,Sound tracks for John Sales  films) to fill out the drum seat. After months of scheming, writing and recording, I brought the basic tracks to Boston, to friend Pat Wallace and his "Imaginary Friend" studio, got a bunch of world class players to flesh it out and brought the finished recording to Ducky Carlysle for mixing. Ducky had just finished mixing a record for thinking man's teen idol-Mandy Moore. He was producing a record for Buddy guy. Our record already sounded great but he sprinkled some of his fairy dust on it and after mastering it at M works we had a product that I was extremely proud of. It was an organic collaboration between some very different entities that worked !
 Who knew that a middleaged has- been rocker(Me), a guy that had last played in a band in college(Jason) and and an elementary school music teacher(Jessie) and Jay (who also played on most of the tracks and should probably get as much of the credit for a good sounding record as any of us)- could come up with" Move your Boots"
 But here it is_
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!
enjoy!
 Asa Brebner