Songw3rks Volume 2
Art & Pete write songs live on the Brookstone Bards Twitch show and record them with a team of hand-picked, world-class musicians.
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Art & Pete’s Songw3rks is a “crowdsourced original music” project. The songs are written in real-time on the Brookstone Bards Twitch Show. Audience members choose the Genre, Style, Key, and Title, and brainstorm lyrical ideas. Art and Pete build each song during a dedicated Twitch session, bringing their combined expertise to the applied craft of songwriting. With this second entry, Art & Pete sought to mature their sound, and build off the collaborative spirit of the first album. Gathering the same musicians from the first album, and picking up some new friends along the way, they once again headed into The Wav Lab studio to record ten new songs. This is Songw3rks, Volume 2.
E.O.D.
“Anxiety is a bitch.”
- Music & Lyrics – Arthur Eugene Mayes
- Music – Jonathan Peter Lents
- Lead & Backing Vocals – Pete Lents
- Synthesizers – Pete Lents
- Guitar – James Nelson
- Bass Guitar – Chris Revels
- Drums – Matthew Hedrick
Kite & Key
“The Laws of Attraction are in full effect here.”
- Music & Lyrics – Arthur Eugene Mayes
- Music – Jonathan Peter Lents
- Lead & Backing Vocals – Pete Lents
- Piano – Pete Lents
- Guitar – James Nelson
- Bass Guitar – Chris Revels
- Drums – Matthew Hedrick
- Organ – Phillip Howe
I Stopped Believing (Derrick’s Song)
“Ramblers gonna ramble.”
- Music & Lyrics – Arthur Eugene Mayes
- Music – Jonathan Peter Lents
- Lead Vocals – Pete Lents
- Backing Vocals – Kristin Lents, Shana Blake, Gigi Dover, Pete Lents
- Organ – Pete Lents
- Guitar – James Nelson
- Bass Guitar – Chris Revels
- Drums – Matthew Hedrick
Lights In The Window
“Sometimes you CAN go home.”
- Music & Lyrics – Arthur Eugene Mayes
- Music – Jonathan Peter Lents
- Lead & Backing Vocals – Pete Lents
- Piano – Pete Lents
- Guitar – James Nelson
- Bass Guitar – Chris Revels
- Drums – Matthew Hedrick
Pushing My Buttons
“Playing together is best.”
- Music & Lyrics – Arthur Eugene Mayes
- Music – Jonathan Peter Lents
- Lead Vocals – Pete Lents, Kristin Lents
- Electric Piano – Pete Lents
- Guitar – James Nelson
- Bass Guitar – Chris Revels
- Drums – Matthew Hedrick
- Saxophone – Phillip Howe
The Destroyer (from “The Life and Times of Mr. Buttons”)
“The cat wants to take over the world, but he can’t. Because he’s a cat.”
- Music & Lyrics – Arthur Eugene Mayes
- Music – Jonathan Peter Lents
- Lead Vocals – Pete Lents
- Piano, Organ – Pete Lents
- Guitar – James Nelson
- Bass Guitar – Chris Revels
- Drums – Matthew Hedrick
- Mr. Buttons’ Owner – Dana Pearson
Reset
“This day sucks. I want a do-over.”
- Music & Lyrics – Arthur Eugene Mayes
- Music – Jonathan Peter Lents, James Nelson
- Lead & Backing Vocals – Pete Lents
- Synthesizers – Pete Lents
- Guitar – James Nelson
- Bass Guitar – Chris Revels
- Drums – Matthew Hedrick
When I Was
“Aging actress looks back and realizes the truth.”
- Music & Lyrics – Arthur Eugene Mayes
- Music – Jonathan Peter Lents
- Lead Vocals – Shana Blake
- Backing Vocals – Shana Blake, Pete Lents
- Piano – Pete Lents
- Guitar – James Nelson
- Bass Guitar – Chris Revels
- Drums – Matthew Hedrick
- Organ – Phillip Howe
- Percussion Programming – Pete Lents, Joseph Miller
The Lesson
“What is allyship like for straight guys?”
- Music & Lyrics – Arthur Eugene Mayes
- Music – Jonathan Peter Lents
- Lead Vocals – Pete Lents
- Piano – Pete Lents
- Guitar – James Nelson
- Bass Guitar – Chris Revels
- Drums – Matthew Hedrick
- Backing Vocals – Adam Nelson, Bo Bosboom, Cassidy Lents, Charissa Whillock, Chris Blair, Courtney Visser, Daniel Korzelius, Decibel, Elisa Carlson, Garrett Lents, Kristin Lents, Mandy Prater, Scott D’Vileskis
Foolish Minds
“Glass ceilings are ironically stronger when maintained by idiots.”
- Music & Lyrics – Arthur Eugene Mayes
- Music – Jonathan Peter Lents
- Lead Vocals – Kristin Lents
- Backing Vocals – Kristin Lents, Pete Lents
- Piano, Celeste – Pete Lents
- Guitar – James Nelson
- Bass Guitar – Chris Revels
- Drums – Matthew Hedrick
- Violin – Jason Poore
- Orchestra Programming – Joseph Miller
Production Credits
- Executive Producer – Arthur Eugene Mayes
- Co-Executive Producer – Jonathan Peter Lents
- Co-Producer – Joseph Miller
- Recording Engineer – Joe Miller The WAVLab Studio, Fort Mill, SC
- Mastering Engineer – Anthony Puglisi SENTRALL Sound, Los Angeles, CA
- Some photography by – Tom A. McDonald
