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Dean Milano

About Me

After 35 years of writing music, I finally decided it was time to buckle down and put together an album and my first CD- Songs About Stuff, was the result.The styles of my music range from folk, country, rock, ballads, latin, bluegrass, pop and novelty songs.I’ve been lucky enough to have had a little help from some old friends, including award winning musician Don Stiernberg, Greg Cahill of Special Consensus Bluegrass Band, Dave Kovnat from the Bobby Rydell Band, Kira recording artist Greg Trafidlo and many more.• Since 1966, I’ve performed at festivals, dinner theatres, concerts, corporate events, and hundreds of nightclubs, resorts and hotels all over the country. • I also performed on tour with The New Seekers (Georgy Girl, I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing) for four years. • During my career, I’ve been fortunate enough to have opened the show for such greats as Paul Butterfield, Jan & Dean, Cab Calloway, the Spencer Davis Group, Bo Diddley, The Kingston Trio and many more, but probably one of my most memorable moments was singing the National Anthem at Yankee Stadium in front of 40,00 crazed baseball fans.Doing my time on the road and just the experiences of life in general were enough to plant the seeds for a few song ideas.I don’t really write love songs or songs about shattered relationships. For the most part, I write story songs. Most of the stories in my songs are true, things that either happened to me or my friends and acquaintances.They’re stories that I think are worth telling and I hope folks think they’re worth listening to.UPDATE: My second CD- Vestiges: More Songs About More Stuff is out now and is available for purchase at CD Baby. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------If you're honestly interested in knowing a bit about me, best thing to do is go to my website at http://www.toys-n-cars.com/Click on the ABOUT ME or the MY MUSIC pages and you'll find out much more than you'll ever need. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@My first CD -SONGS ABOUT STUFF and my second CD- Vestiges: More Songs About More Stuff, are both now available on CD Baby.http://cdbaby.com/link?u=166527

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Member Since: 06/06/2007
Band Website: www.toys-n-cars.com
Band Members: Musicians who played on Songs About Stuff:---------------------------Dennis Gordon: Keyboards, guitar, mandolin, ukelele and vocals/Greg Trafidlo: Guitar, mandolin and vocals/Greg Cahill: Banjo/ Peter Seman: Fiddle, harmonica/ Julianne Macarus: Violin, viola/ Dave Kovnat: Drums and percussion/ Don Stiernberg: guitar/ Scott Braam: Guitar/ Amberlee Haynes: vocal

.. Or buy it here: 1597852 ------------------------------Musicians who played on Vestiges: More Songs About More Stuff:Scott Braam: Guitar/ Dave Kovnat: Drums and percussion/ Jordi Kleiner: violin/ Paul Heinz: Keyboards/ Dennis Gordon: mandolin and guitar/ Julianne Macarus: Violin and vocal/ Russ Ward: Drums and vocal/ Ted Kendros: Drums/ John Cruz: Drums

..Dean Milano at Heritage Fest

Take The Blue Highway

Dean Milano-Lady be Good/Night and Day

Dean Milano-Time Machine

Influences: The Band, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, Merle Haggard, John Coltrane, Richard Farina, Claude Debussey, Carlos Antonio Jobim, Traffic, Aaron Copland, Buffalo Springfield, Maurice Ravel, John Prine, Wayne Shorter, Vangelis, Marty Robbins, George Gershwin, Leonard Cohen, Charley Pride, The Beatles, Flatt & Scruggs, Judy Collins, Erroll Garner, The Doors, Michael Smith, Clifton Chenier, Woody Guthrie, Gene Pitney, Cole Porter...
Sounds Like: Hopefully, no one in particular.
Record Label: Kira Records
Type of Label: Indie

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Update on Chicago Music Book

 The materials have now been submitted to the publisher and the waiting begins until the book comes out, hopefully before Christmas. (and no, that's not me on the cover - it's actually Lonnie Brooks)....
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:54:00 GMT