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Munchkin Music MADNESS! Billy Kelly

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I recently listened to another great CD of music great for the whole family!  The CD is coming out April 5th and is called The Family Garden by Billy Kelly.  Let me just say, first of all, that you have got to check out Billy’s site!  There are lots of great music clips on there and I absolutely *love* his sense of humor.  I looked it over for a good 45 minutes with my hubby and we were totally cracking up.  He rocks!

                                    Out in the yard there’s a patch of dirt
                                         where the sun shines hard and the sprinklers squirt,
                                             where me and my whole family love to go ….

Each song on this new album has a personality of its own and I love it!  My favorites are “The Happy Happy Whistling Song” and “Revenge of Straw”.  I also love the art work on the CD case.  Very clever wording and pictures.  So cool!  It’s a quirky, fun time for the whole family!
Honestly, the music reminds me of my dad… My dad used to make up songs and we’d do the songs and dorky little dances. 😉  Hehe  This makes me think of that and I think that’s awesome!  Perfect for kids, fun for parents.

With jaunty aplomb, independent recording artist Billy Kelly announces the April 5 release of his third family album, The Family Garden (YAY Music, $12.00, run time 37 minutes, for ages 2 and up).  Says Billy, “If, from a production standpoint, my last disc was a topiary garden then this one is (as the name suggests) the family garden.  It’s loose, it’s a hodgepodge, it’s friendly, comfortable, and just about anything goes. And man, those tomatoes are gonna be delicious.”

The Family Garden leaps spryly from country to ragtime to rock.  The music is peppy and fun, featuring songs for all age groups, from the interactive “I’m Thinking of an Animal” for the preschool set to a tune for older kids titled “It’s Close Enough,” which pays tribute to all things ALMOST perfect. Parents will dig Billy’s cover of the B-52s’ classic “Rock Lobster” — high-spirited rock and roll played with wild abandon.  Molly Ledford from the band Lunch Money co-wrote and joins Billy in singing the sweetly sincere “We Could Be Pen Pals.”  There’s even a patriotic country song written for Billy’s dad. “That Old American Flag” is based on the true story of a father-and-son project, erecting a 25-foot flagpole outside Billy’s childhood home. Other highlights include “Coney Island Washboard (a ragtime tune dating back to the 1920s), “It’s a Wonderful Life” (a tribute to Billy’s favorite movie), and the album’s title track, an ode to the joys of digging in the dirt with the whole family. Particularly noteworthy is “The Invention of the Straw,” which Billy describes as “a real up-tempo number, chronicling the amazing, albeit factually inaccurate, story of the invention of the drinking straw. This is a truly strange song, even for me. It’s loaded with completely false information from beginning to end. This song asserts, among other things, that Nancy Reagan was Queen of England in 1997. Also, it has a good beat and you can dance to it.”

Upcoming Concerts:
May 14 – World Café Live, Philadelphia, PA
May 22 – 92Y Tribeca, NYC
PURCHASE THE CD:
WIN the CD!!
Who wants to win a great album of music??  You can win right here!  Please leave a NEW comment for each entry you do from the below list…
Mandatory Entry
Go to the Billy Kelly website and listen to the clips of music (click on the musical notes on the right).  Come back and tell me your email address and which of the songs you liked the best!

Bonus Entries
*Like Billy Kelly on Facebook
*Tweet this giveaway (for example: “Enter to #win some great music from @JennsRAQ! Billy Kelly’s new album! realandquirky.com ends 4/8”)
*Earn an extra entry for each other giveaway of mine that you enter. 🙂

*Follow me on Google Friend Connect (it’s on the right on this page)
*Follow me on Facebook (leave your displayed name so I can verify)
*Follow me on Twitter @JennsRAQ

Ends 4/8.  

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About Jenn L

Jenn lives in Fort Worth, Texas with her husband and 5 children. She is definitely real and quirky in person and on the internet. Jenn has been homeschooling her kids since 2009.

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