Fletcher Rhoden.com is releasing THE FIVE & DIME Best Of 2005-2010 in CD and digital download, over 70 minutes of live and recorded tracks. The tunes, covering both secular and religious themes, include "On The Wings Of An Angel" and others and feature appearances from Robbie Rist and Eva James. Following the cd/dd release of the I LOVE LUCY-inspired musical Original Soundtrack Recording of REDHEAD CUBAN HAUSFRAU HUSBAND (also on DVD) THE FIVE & DIME is expected to be the last release of its kind from the singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist.
"There was a lot of good work in that five-year span," Rhoden said, "more than enough for a retrospective of this kind. It makes a nice album with a very cohesive feel, even if the work is spread out over so long and covers so many themes. Stylistically, it's very consistent. All my work from before that period, and there is a ton, just doesn't add up to a release the way this stuff does." No new music was recorded for THE FIVE & DIME, although the fertile period has resulted in fragments of almost 10 new songs. No new recordings are anticipated. "I have other plans," Rhoden said.
All the songs on THE FIVE & DIME are originals, but the same five-year period included a lot of covers, radical reworkings of classic rock tunes also being released as CHANGE FOR A TEN. Not for sale or resale, CHANGE FOR A TEN comes as a complimentary download with any purchase of THE FIVE & DIME. Tunes from this collection include a reggae version of "The Sultans Of Swing" a slowed-down "Carry On, My Wayward Son" a delta blues "Helter Skelter" and more.
Free downloads of THE FIVE & DIME are being given away once a week until April 15 to those who sign the home site guestbook. Downloads of both albums are available now, the CD of THE FIVE & DIME Best Of 2005-2010 is expected in early April. Free samples and purchase information is available at
http://www.fletcherrhoden.com/music.htm
Friday, March 18, 2011
Saturday, April 24, 2010
THAT'S RUDE, JUDE! now in paperback
Fletcher Rhoden.com presents kids' book THAT'S RUDE, JUDE! now out in paperback from CreateSpace. We spend the first years of our children's lives teaching them to speak and identify and group things, but what happens when they take it too far, which they always do? Teach your kids what NOT to say with this laugh-out-loud life lesson. An awesome gift for others' kids and for adults too! Perfect for teachers and homeschoolers! There is no other book on this common behavioral problem! The hilarious, gross-out rhymes are sure to drive the point home! Full-page, full-color, all-digital images from the creator of IMAGINE NATHAN ON SUPERMARKET SAFARI and BALLOONZEE!
https://www.createspace.com/3445780
http://www.fletcherrhoden.com/childrensstore.htm
https://www.createspace.com/3445780
http://www.fletcherrhoden.com/childrensstore.htm
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
IMAGINE NATHAN ON SUPERMARKET SAFARI now in paperback!
The Fletcher Rhoden early readers book IMAGINE NATHAN ON SUPERMARKET SAFARI is now available in paperback from CreateSpace. This 8x10 full-color hand-painted adventure follows a young boy whose incredible imagination turns a boring shopping chore into a trip down jungle rivers to face wild beasts and other dangers. A modern-day Don Quixote, Imagine Nathan sees the world they way nobody else can! This awesome story is perfect for imaginative kids, busy parents, teachers and home-schoolers too! Never have an unpleasant errand again! The book is also available in ebook and read-along video formats perfect for iPad and other devices, from the creator's home site:
http://www.fletcherrhoden.com/imaginenathan.htm
Three other Rhoden kids' books, THAT'S RUDE, JUDE! and two BALLOONZEE books are coming soon in paperback! BALLOONZEE books LET'S GO FLOATIN' and BLUE, NO CLUE are already available in ebook format and as animated videos, perfect for iPad and other devices. THAT'S RUDE, JUDE! is also available as an ebook and is expected in paperback later this month.
http://www.fletcherrhoden.com/childrensstore.htm
IMAGINE NATHAN ON SUPERMARKET SAFARI in paperback direct link:
https://www.createspace.com/3443082
http://www.fletcherrhoden.com/imaginenathan.htm
Three other Rhoden kids' books, THAT'S RUDE, JUDE! and two BALLOONZEE books are coming soon in paperback! BALLOONZEE books LET'S GO FLOATIN' and BLUE, NO CLUE are already available in ebook format and as animated videos, perfect for iPad and other devices. THAT'S RUDE, JUDE! is also available as an ebook and is expected in paperback later this month.
http://www.fletcherrhoden.com/childrensstore.htm
IMAGINE NATHAN ON SUPERMARKET SAFARI in paperback direct link:
https://www.createspace.com/3443082
Sunday, April 4, 2010
New POEMS page and new poems for 2010!
Fletcher Rhoden is publishing poems for the first time in his career, covering such themes as religion, family and love. Several of the new poems are Haiku (a poem whose three lines consist of five, seven and five syllables) and some are composed of several Haiku sequentially, such as the poem JESUS SAID (in 4 HAIKU).
http://www.fletcherrhoden.com/poems.htm
Fletcher Rhoden's new pop album WHIRLED WITHOUT END, available as a digital download from http://www.fletcherrhoden.com/music.htm also reflects Rhoden's interest in religion, history, science and other intellectual themes. Rhoden is an acclaimed author and dramatist ("Last Tango With Marlon" "The Trial Of Davy Crockett") an award-winning film writer ("Stump the Band") and writer/illustrator of children's books ("Imagine Nathan On Supermarket Safari" "That's Rude, Jude!" "Balloonzee").
http://www.fletcherrhoden.com/poems.htm
Fletcher Rhoden's new pop album WHIRLED WITHOUT END, available as a digital download from http://www.fletcherrhoden.com/music.htm also reflects Rhoden's interest in religion, history, science and other intellectual themes. Rhoden is an acclaimed author and dramatist ("Last Tango With Marlon" "The Trial Of Davy Crockett") an award-winning film writer ("Stump the Band") and writer/illustrator of children's books ("Imagine Nathan On Supermarket Safari" "That's Rude, Jude!" "Balloonzee").
Friday, April 2, 2010
New album WHIRLED WITHOUT END out now!
The new Fletcher Rhoden pop album WHIRLED WITHOUT END is now released for download. The 10 new songs mix Christian and secular themes in an upbeat collection that features Rhoden on all instruments and vocals. Songs include the football tune "Bowl You Over (Rock Your World)" and others. This is the first collection from the Los Angeles singer/songwriter and dramatist to be released as a complete downloadable album. The aforementioned football novelty was released as a downloadable single in January but is now only available as part of the new album. "Its great to be on the cutting edge of the new technology," Rhoden said in a press release. "It really streamlines the distribution process, not bothering with all those clunky cds and jewel cases. Much better for the environment, too! We've been selling downloads of ebooks and videos for a while now, it's good to add some new music into the mix." Live performance DVDs from Rhoden were released last year.
The collection may surprise fans and friends. "I wasn't going to be doing one of these now, but guess I had some song writing energy left over from the musical," Rhoden said, referring to the stage musical he wrote last year and is mounting for a Los Angeles premiere run this summer. "Plus, some of these songs are older, but were never recorded. So I already had a few songs in my pocket, ready to go. That's probably why this collection came about so quickly. What a great way to spend 3 months!"
Standout tracks include, "Jesus On My Side" which Rhoden performed this year at Mt. Hollywood Church in Hollywood, CA. A video of the performance is posted all over the internet and at the home site, http://www.fletcherrhoden.com/performances.htm. There is also a video of the football single "Bowl You Over (Rock Your World)" on the VIDEOS page of that site. Other standout tracks include "Strings" a McCartney-esque pop tune with a blistering extended harmonica solo, and two versions of "Child Of The Most High God" one in 4/4 and a more stately reading in 3/4, or waltz time.
Rhoden's last album was 2008's NEW HEAVEN, which was posted online in its entirety since its release. Only a few tracks remain on the home site, http://www.fletcherrhoden.com/music.htm. A download rerelease may follow the new WHIRLED WITHOUT END sometime this year.
The collection may surprise fans and friends. "I wasn't going to be doing one of these now, but guess I had some song writing energy left over from the musical," Rhoden said, referring to the stage musical he wrote last year and is mounting for a Los Angeles premiere run this summer. "Plus, some of these songs are older, but were never recorded. So I already had a few songs in my pocket, ready to go. That's probably why this collection came about so quickly. What a great way to spend 3 months!"
Standout tracks include, "Jesus On My Side" which Rhoden performed this year at Mt. Hollywood Church in Hollywood, CA. A video of the performance is posted all over the internet and at the home site, http://www.fletcherrhoden.com/performances.htm. There is also a video of the football single "Bowl You Over (Rock Your World)" on the VIDEOS page of that site. Other standout tracks include "Strings" a McCartney-esque pop tune with a blistering extended harmonica solo, and two versions of "Child Of The Most High God" one in 4/4 and a more stately reading in 3/4, or waltz time.
Rhoden's last album was 2008's NEW HEAVEN, which was posted online in its entirety since its release. Only a few tracks remain on the home site, http://www.fletcherrhoden.com/music.htm. A download rerelease may follow the new WHIRLED WITHOUT END sometime this year.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
New performance clip now online, new CD coming
A Feb. 2010 Fletcher Rhoden performance of "Jesus On My Side" is now online on Youtube, Yahoo! video, Facebook and at www.fletcherrhoden.com/performances.htm The original song is from the upcoming Fletcher Rhoden cd WHIRLED WITHOUT END, expected to be made available only in digital download format later this week. It will be the first cd of new original material from Rhoden since 2008's NEW HEAVEN, which featured the popular songs "Mt. Hollywood" "One Body, One Spirit" and the recently performed "Former Things". NEW HEAVEN is the only Rhoden collection to be made available online for free, for listening but not downloading (found at www.fletcherrhoden.com/newheaven/htm). If released as a download only, WHIRLED WITHOUT END will be Rhoden's first collection not to have an initial cd release. Like its predecessor, WHIRLED WITHOUT END will feature a mixture of Christian and secular pop, written, performed and recorded by Rhoden. The tunes are not related to Rhoden's upcoming stage musical, REDHEAD CUBAN HAUSFRAU HUSBAND, slated for a world premiere run in Los Angeles this summer. Rhoden is the composer of over 500 songs, including many soundtracks.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Davy Crockett dies once more: Fess Parker passes away at 85
Few did more to keep the memory of American naturalist Col. David Crockett than did actor Fess Parker, who embodied not only the great Tennessee bear-killer but also Daniel Boone. Today, many people cannot tell the one historical figure from the other, in large part to them being portrayed so famously by the same man, but Parker cannot be held accountable for the cloudy American memory. It is thanks to Parker and, largely, the Disney corporation that Americans remember either Crockett or Boone at all.
Crockett was a great American; a politician, best-selling author, explorer, businessman, Indian fighter and, ultimately a martyr, although it is likely Crockett himself would have blanched at such a high mantle. When he arrived at the Alamo, for example, he insisted on fighting with the rank of high-private, even though he already held the rank of colonel. But Crockett was also a master of the media and what we would now call "spin" -- and Crockett had eyes on no less than the White House had events at the Alamo not gone so disastrously for the norte americanos (an outcome that was in no way certain as the conflict festered.)
There is much complexity in Crockett's actions and motivations, and this is not the time to explore them all (my book, THE TRIAL OF DAVY CROCKETT, does this in detail.) Of Parker, we can say that his portrayal reduced the boiling kettle of Crockett as a man to the bare essence of Crockett as an ideal; sturdy, confident, moral and courageous. This was America as it wanted to see itself in Crockett's time and in Parker's. Aside from General Eisenhower himself, there is no single image that more encapsulates America in the 1950's than Fess Parker, staring determinedly out from under that beaver-skin hat.
In our currently divisive and tumultuous political climate, Americans struggle to redefine themselves and their country; still sturdy and moral, still courageous; but the simpler times now evoke feelings of backwards thinking, resistance to change or liberal thought. Are the virtues for which Parker's Crockett stood now becoming red flags on a regressive course that could cost our country years of progress? Or have these virtues simply been co-opted by one or more clever political fronts, pretending to represent a people they all but disdain, perverting the principles upon which the country was founded? Let's hope that Fess Parker, like Col. David Crockett, finds peace in his rest even as his image continues to be a symbol and a rallying point, often times for groups that cannot match the ideals for which Crockett and now Parker will ultimately stand.
THE TRIAL OF DAVY CROCKETT a fact-based novella by Fletcher Rhoden
www.trafford.com/robots/ 01-0132.html
Crockett was a great American; a politician, best-selling author, explorer, businessman, Indian fighter and, ultimately a martyr, although it is likely Crockett himself would have blanched at such a high mantle. When he arrived at the Alamo, for example, he insisted on fighting with the rank of high-private, even though he already held the rank of colonel. But Crockett was also a master of the media and what we would now call "spin" -- and Crockett had eyes on no less than the White House had events at the Alamo not gone so disastrously for the norte americanos (an outcome that was in no way certain as the conflict festered.)
There is much complexity in Crockett's actions and motivations, and this is not the time to explore them all (my book, THE TRIAL OF DAVY CROCKETT, does this in detail.) Of Parker, we can say that his portrayal reduced the boiling kettle of Crockett as a man to the bare essence of Crockett as an ideal; sturdy, confident, moral and courageous. This was America as it wanted to see itself in Crockett's time and in Parker's. Aside from General Eisenhower himself, there is no single image that more encapsulates America in the 1950's than Fess Parker, staring determinedly out from under that beaver-skin hat.
In our currently divisive and tumultuous political climate, Americans struggle to redefine themselves and their country; still sturdy and moral, still courageous; but the simpler times now evoke feelings of backwards thinking, resistance to change or liberal thought. Are the virtues for which Parker's Crockett stood now becoming red flags on a regressive course that could cost our country years of progress? Or have these virtues simply been co-opted by one or more clever political fronts, pretending to represent a people they all but disdain, perverting the principles upon which the country was founded? Let's hope that Fess Parker, like Col. David Crockett, finds peace in his rest even as his image continues to be a symbol and a rallying point, often times for groups that cannot match the ideals for which Crockett and now Parker will ultimately stand.
THE TRIAL OF DAVY CROCKETT a fact-based novella by Fletcher Rhoden
www.trafford.com/robots/ 01-0132.html
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