Carl Verheyen offers 2-for-1 deal on albums

Guitarist extraordinaire Carl Verheyen is offering a limited-time only promotional deal on his first two albums, No Borders and Garage Sale. These two titles will be available two for the price of one via Carl Verheyen's Official Website Store only at http://www.theconnextion.com/carlverheyen/carlverheyen_index.cfm.
This applies to both digital album downloads (regularly priced $8.99 USD each) and physical CDs ordered (regularly priced $15.00 USD each). The Early Years Special will run June 22 through July 4, 2010 only.

Verheyen has the following to say about the two titles he selected.

No Borders: "I began the CVB in 1988 with two good friends. Dave Marotta was fresh off Gino Vanelli's Brother to Brother tour, and John Ferraro was touring steadily with Larry Carlton. The three of us managed to find time to spend a long weekend at Studio Sound in Hollywood tracking 10 songs that would become No Borders. My personal musical conviction to become a guitarist - not a rock player, jazz player, country or fusion player - but a complete musician led me to write and play music that encompassed the entire spectrum stylistically. No Borders was more than just the record's title, it became the fledgling band's battle cry that produced such shredding tracks as “The Big Shuffle” and “Tango” on the same record as the up-tempo country piece “Let’s Ride” or the Bach-inspired “Big Sur.” We explored jazz, rock, acoustic trio music and fusion with guest guitarist Allan Holdsworth soloing on “Gretchen' s Theme.” Listening back now I hear this record as a rebel stance against the music business, which was constantly trying to pigeon hole us as a jazz trio, a blues band or a fusion group. The ideals of youth prevailed and No Borders remains a testament to our desire to make music on the highest artist level possible."

Garage Sale: "In the years between the band's first and second release, I went through many changes. The most profound of these was the awakening to an awareness of pure tone. The sonic marriage of a great electric guitar and its perfect compliment of amplifier became a life long search that continues to this day. In 1989, completely bucking the popular trend of the time, I sold my refrigerator-sized racks and banks of effects processors, preferring to plug my 1961 Stratocaster into a 1964 Vox or a '68 Marshall. This back-to-basics approach to sound informed my entire playing style, because by the end of the '80s guitarists weren't listening to the hands anymore, instead we heard the reverbs, delays, phasing, flanging and harmonizing effects that adorned and masked the sound of the guitar. Everyone sounded the same; the slick, LA sound was pervasive throughout the world. In our desire to create something different we began to record rootsy blues tunes like “Holly House,” and sequence them side-by-side cutting-edge rockers like the title track. Bob Dylan's classic “My Back Pages” was given a slow and soulful treatment, inspired by a chance encounter with a coffee table book of Dylan's lyrics and the sudden realization of their meaning. I'm proud to say that 16 years after its release, Garage Sale continues to be taught and analyzed in “Modern Guitar Styles,” an advanced course taught by Dave Hill at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California. I've been told the song's difficulty level relegates it to the final week of the course!"

Also, in the event you miss Carl Verheyen's 6/24 appearance with Robert David Hall on “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” a link to see the entire performance will be available online next week at http://www.cbs.com/late_night/late_late_show/.

Hall, who stars as off-beat coroner Dr. Albert Robbins from CBS TV's award-winning drama “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” is also a talented and gifted songwriter, singer and guitarist. Verheyen (backing vocals, slide resonator guitar), Hall (guitar, lead vocals) and four other musicians perform the title track from Hall's Things They Don't Teach You in School. Carl Verheyen is also musical director of the segment.

This summer, Verheyen is performing US dates with both the Carl Verheyen Band and solo, plus conducting master classes and guitar work shops; see his website for full details. In addition, he is in rehearsals preparing for this autumn's Supertramp 70-10 Tour of Europe and the UK. He has been lead guitarist and a backing vocalist for the hit group since 1985, http://www.supertramp.com.


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