Silicon Cowboy - 1659

About the Artist Most Nashville born artists quickly learn to adapt Country music to their own limited life experiences and pen epic songs about bad relationships and hard times. Rick Glaze is different. For one, he decided not to stay in Nashville.The transplanted 'Silicon Valley Cowboy' not only moved to the land of 'virtual' life in California, he uses his business and financial experiences for his comical look at the media's most intriguing ongoing soap opera and drama, the internet. His debut album, "Silicon Cowboy" could have easily been called, "My View of the dot com internet fiasco in Silicon Valley on the Nightly Financial News." In songs such as, "My Dot Com", Rick gives us his humorous insight into everyday people's zealous expectations for wealth and prosperity as they bet it all on 'flash in the pan' internet companies that are here today and take their investors for a 'crashing ride' tomorrow. In "Oscar Hammerstein", we see a 'virtual' country drama of those individuals who personally come to Silicon Valley to get rich quick, only to see that dream collapse around them. A modern day story of the desperate search for the gold at the end of the rainbow. Rick also touches on how the Internet has changed the way people interact with one another. In Virtual Love, he documents how the computer and the internet have not only replaced real relationships but also allowed people to truly shelter themselves by hiding behind fake "virtual" personas. While it may initially seem that Rick Glaze has chosen an unusual musical format to help us look at this ongoing drama, it is actually the right one to give us the insights into what country artists have sung about for years, the search for a quick way to get rich and get a good woman all at the same time. Unfortunately, the characters in this Silicon Valley drama seem to be 'virtually' lost somewhere in cyberspace. Product Description 'One of the best country albums I've heard this year because of it's blend of traditional and tongue-in-cheek flavors. It's daring, but not suicidal, and deserves to find it's mark' --MusicDish Industry e-Journal 'It's no wonder Glaze is drawn to Country. He grew up outside of Nashville, Tennessee, and earned a master's from Vanderbilt University, just down the road from Nashville's Music Row. Once he got his feet on the ground professionally Glaze resumed a lifelong shadow career as a musician and songwriter.' --Electronic Engineer Times (EE Times) 'And Swing Shift thinks he's not half bad, if you like Willie Nelson. We do'. --San Jose Mercury News 'The Rick Band took the stage and blew the audience away. I am amazed at how the three of them get such a full robust sound. And the harmonies are great. I especially like that new song, 'Cool Nights in Santa Cruz'.' --A Fan from San Francisco 'My Dot Com, Virtual Love, and Oscar Hammerstein, comment on the darker side of the Internet culture that had people coming in droves to Silicon Valley in search of easy money. The lyrics convey humor and wit; but delivered with Glaze's earnest singing, they come across as melancholy too.' --Los Altos Town Crier (Los Altos, California) 'Rick's voice sounds like a younger Tom Petty, and definitely Country (minus the fiddle and strangled guitar sound). The guy sang and wrote songs in Nashville for years. Now based on his western skin probably, 3 of 12 songs here have sprouted definite Silicon Valley wings.' --MusicDish Industry e-Journal 'My dot-com done come and gone The wheels came off and it didn't take long All that venture capital's spent And our Web site didn't even make a cent. --Lyrics to 'My Dot-Com' by Silicon Valley song writers Rick Glaze and David Pace.' --St. Petersburg Times (Florida) 'Well the balance sheet-balladeer has finally hit it big.' --San Jose Mercury News 'Glaze weighs in on life in Silicon Valley, filtered through his country-western sensibilities fostered growing up outside Nashville....from Oscar Hammerstein: Oscar's IPO went out wit
ASIN: B000058AJR
VSKU: GGV.B000058AJR.LN
Condition: Like New
Author/Artist:Rick Glaze & Virtual Wafer Hot Band
Binding: Audio CD