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Style List for each song on Songs From The Wild :
1. Untamed Heart: AlterNative Rock (This song was channeled to me by my cat, Ruby Emerald, the evening she died. It is a song to celebrate the untamed heart in all beings. To remind us to respect wild cats and all animals. My Native American - Cherokee, Celtic and Goddess Wiccan Spirituality come through.) 2. Radio Wo Wo: Pop Roots Rock (How fabulous it feels to have my songs played on the radio and people dancin' and lovin the songs!) 3. Down Home Recipe: Alternative Cajun Feel (Down home lovin') 4. Sweet As Honey Be: Blues (Happy love blues) 5. To The Moon Alice: Rock (Title taken from 'The Jackie Gleason Show', wanted to make a positive image of the phrase. My honey's kisses send me to the moon) 6. Soaring: Pop Rock, Earth Rock (Planet conscious song) 7. Never Ending Skies: Soft Pop Rock, Earth Rock (Earth responsibilities) 8. I Wanna Go Sailing: Soft Pop Rock (Love song) 9. Another Yesterday: Blues (Missing a loved one) 10. That Kind Of Love: Blues (Changing bad habits to save love) 11. Two PLanets In A Tailspin: AlterNative (Space-age love song) 12. TNT : Rock (so bad it's good!) 13. Wild Dykes On Bikes: Out & Proud Rock (No, it won't turn you into a dyke!) 14. Snuck Up (The pie song): Out & Proud AlterNative Humorous (A pie making adventure).

Influences include: Extraordinary experiences, Joan Jett, U2, John Lennon, Elvis, Jesse Mae Hemphill, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sun House, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Melissa Etheridge, Paul McCartney, Chrisse Hynde, Patsy Kline, John Estes, Woody Gutherie, Cordell Jackson (Rockin Granny), REMM, Sound Garden, Pearl Jam, Tina Turner, Shirley Temple (child singer), Leonard Bernstein, Grace Jones, Devo, Frank Zappa, Roy Orbison, Aaron Nevelle, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Cindi Lauper, Johnny Lang, Cake, Patti Smith, Woody Gutherie, T-Rex, Bob Dylan, Buffy St. Marie, Sandra Bernhardt, Etta Baker, Ellen Degeneres, Madonna, Devo, Eric Clapton, Bob Marley, Liberace, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Taylor Hicks (Soul Patrol), Daniel Johnson, Tom & Barry Howe ~ Bang, Bang ~ 'Brothers of the Head', Ozzie Osbourne, Jonathan Richmond, (Origin of Love - Hedwig), The Breeder's, Sleater - Kinney, Little Feat, Doobie Brothers, La Lupe, Peggy Lee, Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra, The Zimmers, Judy Garland, Tony Bennett, Fred Astaire, just to name a few.

We Sound Like: Motels, Grace Slick, Nina hagen, Dilana & Storm Large (Super Nova - Rockstar), Sound Garden, Pretenders, Beatles, T-Rex, Cheryl Crow, Patti Smith, REMM, U2, Joan Jett, Cheryl Crow, B-52s, Indigo Girls, Bruce Springsteen, Heart, Foo Fighters, Bon Jovi.

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Question: What is a moment you'd like to brag about in your music career? (Musicians who recorded on 'Songs from The Wild')

Jan Emerson: (vocals, keyboard, assistant producer) "At 14 I sang with a band on the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour - television's first"American Idol". My music career has seen highs and lows since then - but I believe the biggest thrill is yet to come with bell the cat!"
Fun facts: Jan toured with show band The Memphis All-Stars and sang onstage with oldies greats such as Chuck Berry,
the Righteous Brothers, the Shirelles, the Drifters and the Grass Roots.

Terry Lee : (associate producer, recording engineer, drummer)"We are the musicmakers and we are the dreamer of dreams." (Quote by Willie Wonka) "I love to push the apple G4 right to the very edge of what it can do. Haven't done my defacto record yet."

Tom Finch: (lead and rhythm guitar, synth-guitar, bass) www.tomfinch.com This man is a California native and a multi-instrumentalist for over twenty years. Tom is an inductee into the Gulf Coast Music Hall of Fame and he has toured throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan and Canada. He is featured on many albumns with groups such as Big Brother and the Holding Co., Eyes Open and Jazz Iguanas. He also leads his own group and has played with such greats as Randy Vincent, Mel Graves, Steve Smith, Kai Eckhardt, and Yiri Svaboda.

Barry Bison : (keyboards) "I played toy piano (and other keyboards) on Elmo and Patsy's albumn, "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer". Working on Songs From The Wild was fun."

Pete Hale: (rhythm guitar) "It was a complete pleasure working on Songs From The Wild. As I told Terry if you market the Pie, pie, pie, pie, pie song (Snuck Up) in Europe I think it will do well. I lived there for 5 years and I'm pretty sure that one in particular is a winner. As far as a one-liner on the question, I have inadvertently offended Neil Shoon, my guitar hero, by laughing at his motorcycle being tipped over. Or...Once upon a time I was in a band that did well in Chico, CA called the Daily Planet."

David Sydney Scott: (sax) www.davidsydneyscott.com "I love playing music for anyone and with anybody, anytime."

Sun Bell : (executive producer, singer, songwriter, rhythm guitar) "The culmination of all the energy, love, talent, laughter and shear pleasure of producing this CD is the ultimate brag in my life. I am so grateful and blessed to be working with musicians who thrive on giving their best from their hearts. People give me many compliments about the "daring action" of this CD process (and the songs themselves) and how it makes them feel inspired, hopeful and that they look forward to Songs From The Wild being available to them. My life is so full of experiences and famous people it would be hard to pick one memory to highlight. Mike Varney (Dead Kennedys) , the late, great Jan Tangen, and Dr. Hook are a few folks I've worked my music with. Maybe someday I'll take the advice of some and write a book on my life. Until then "Let the music play and the light shine on us and all our relations"!" ( 'All our relations', refers to everything living from the smallest to the largest , in this universe or beyond). Sun is also interested in doing voice characters ( she has quite a variety of characters and voice over work.

How we recorded Songs From The Wild :
We are proud about the fact that we achieved such quality without record company expenses. We hope this will be an inspiration to other independent artists to get their music out there.
This CD was produced digitally on a Mac G4 using the ProTools Software. Each of the instruments and vocals were recorded through a 001 DigiDesign. We used a Beyer B1 microphone and a StudioV3 Tube Preamp. The drums wereplayed on Roland SP D11 Electronic Drums. Using ProTools we played and sang consistently through each song. Afterwards we did editing or additional takes as needed.

bell the cat's future plans:
Since Sun Bell is a prolific author of songs there are always new tunes to work with. The recipe for the 2nd CD is already brewing. This CD is the first time Jan and Sun have worked together as songwriters on one of the songs. Jan wrote the words and is fine tuning to her liking the melody that Sun composed. Sun is writing continously, it won't be long before she has a catalog of original songs. As an independent publisher/recording artist, Sun looks forward to others recording her music on their CDs.
bell the cat is also looking for some "btc tiger angels" that have experience in managing, booking, security, sound, stage and lighting technology, roadies, backup singers, assistants in promotion, and folks to connect with all over this beautiful world so we'll have more friends everywhere when we tour.

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bell the cat is scouting for Public Relations, Booking, and Management. Got a fabulous house for a 'HOUSE CONCERT'? We love doing house concerts.

Solo CD with Sun Bell Purrforming "Songs From The Wild" is available now! Email for your copy.

Investor Angels, Sponsors and Record Company offers are welcome! bell the cat is auditioning LEAD GUITAR/INSTRUMENT players and drummers/percussionists!!!

We need people to help us out with promoting, web site, street teams, videos, photography, roadies, sound tech and security.

Contact sun@sunbellmusic.com .

Favorite Quotes or Sayings...

Treat me like an Angel and I'll show you Heaven!

Never too late to live your dream...

"Your heart will be your guide as long as you are who you are on the inside." ~ Snook, the Sloth and Mag, the Turtle on Big Big World

Creator/Spirit dreams a bigger dream than you can dream for yourself. ~ Oprah said something similar on one of her shows ~

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." "Time wounds all heals." "All we are saying is, give Peace a chance" ~ John Lennon

"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth." ~ Ghandi

"Religion is excellent for keeping the common people silent." ~ Thomas Payne

"My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle." ~ Liberace

"I don't think I'm a star. I'll never be a star like Jimi Hendrix or Bob Dylan. I figured out why, cause I tell the truth. If they want to know who I am, they ask me and I'll tell them!" "I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it, how can you describe something you're inside of?" ~ Janis Joplin

"I think our band represents all the great losers of the world. Because it's all about loosing." (The Loosing" 2002 Albumn, 'Loose Screw') ~ Chrisse Hynde

"I think I'm in a constant state of adjustment." "Pissing in a river, watching it rise..." "Christianity made us think there's one heaven." "Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more." ~ Patti Smith

"...I think it's kinda cool to go inside and figure out what's behind the emotions and what makes people who they are. It can be scary to think about it all." ~ Joan Jett

"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another." ~ Madonna

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." "It's all make believe, isn't it?" ~ Marilyn Monroe

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