CREDITS
TV: "After Hours" featured in "Saving Grace" on TNT, featuring Holly Hunter.
FILM: "Digging A Hole" featured in "Soulmates," Independent.
APPEARANCES: L.T. Sings National Anthem at Boston Red Sox vs. Baltimore Orioles.
Hi! We just finished our second album, "Just What You Wanted," in New York City at Mother West Studios with Producer Charles Newman. Newman's credits include The Magnetic Fields, Kris Gruen, "The Osbournes" (MTV), "Newlyweds" (MTV), and the "Empire Records" soundtrack. With this professional release, we hope to expand the band's influence beyond the mid-atlantic region.
You can purchase "Just What You Wanted," or select tracks online:
MOTHER WEST STUDIOS
iTunes Store
CD BABY
For me, lyrics drive the songs. As an English major from Georgetown University, I think of my lyrics as more poetry than anything. I attended high school at Dulaney High School in Maryland, and before that, lived in Floral Park and Garden City, NY. Recording at Mother West in New York City felt like coming home. On this album, there are a couple of songs I didn't want to write because the themes felt too heavy, but the songs insisted on being written--they took on lives of their own. As they evolved, I brought them to the band, uncertain what the response would be, and it was very strong, so I decided to finish them and include them on the record. They wound up being some of my favorites.
"Heathen's Prayer" is a song about a guy who hears so much bad news from the media that he wonders where God could be. When he thinks about religion as a possible source of hope, he encounters perversions of religion by people using it as a means of forwarding their own agendas. He considers quitting his busy life, leaving his car (and his radio, no doubt) running in the middle of a traffic jam, and walking away from everything to try to clear his head and find peace.
"Digging A Hole" started out as a song about the death of a love affair, but wound up being a song about a couple who is not in love, but is expecting a baby. The woman has decided to have an abortion, and the boyfriend wonders if they should consider another option, even though the pregnancy isn't what he wanted.
Some songs are much lighter. Check out "After Hours," a song about a couple who was out for the evening with friends and ditched them, in favor of spending some time alone in a smoky hotel bar, where they have rented a room upstairs for the evening! Or "Any Time You Want," a song about a guy who is friends with a woman he loves, and offers her anything from companionship to romance, as long as he can be with her.
The CD is receiving great early press (it was officially released on November 4, 2006), and one song, "Digging A Hole," has already been selected for use in the indie film, "Soulmates." The title track, "Just What You Wanted" is on a short list for consideration for use in a Dewar's commercial.
Susie Mudd, of Baltimore's "Music Monthly" magazine writes, "Just What You Wanted" is everything you would expect and more. John writes great music. I loved his last album. Guitarists Dave Weber and Gary Young...blew me away on some of the tunes. Incredible licks. (The John L.T. Band) is an exceptional group of musicians, and together they have released a top-notch disc." --November, 2006
I hope you'll check out the tunes, and if you like them, please tell a friend!
