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Sample Tracks I'm Wide Open Day The Dogbush Bloomed All Tracks 1) For A Little While 2) She Love Me/Love Me Not 3) Hard In Paradise 4) I'm Wide Open 5) Lullaby For John 6) Find Some Hope 7) Day The Dogbush Bloomed 8) Time Of The Season 9) It's Your World

CDs Available Live At Creation $12.00

Minneapolis singer/songwriter Craig Schumacher releases his debut CD LIVE AT CREATION. Recorded and engineered by Steve Wiese at Creation Studio A in Minneapolis, the CD was recorded and mixed in three days. Using an incredible cast of players, including Ricky Peterson(keyboards for David Sanborn, Boz Scaggs, Prince...on and on) and Don LaMarca on keys, Geoff Bouchier and John Della Salva playing lead guitars, Bobby Vandell and Timmy Z on drums, with Big Al on bass, the tunes sound like they were played...right now, live, with no rehearsal. The cats just came in and played their asses off...I got exactly what I wanted, says Shoe. Recently, Schumacher has co-written songs for a couple of Tim Mahoney projects, and last year wrote tunes for and produced the Melanie Rosales CD, CAN'T CHANGE IT.

LIVE AT CREATION is a nine song collection of rock, pop, alternative and blues with one cover, TIME OF THE SEASON, the old Zombies classic. Schumacher's versatile voice has that time-honored raspy full of character quality when he needs it and the honest straight-ahead almost talking tone on the appropriate cuts when they call for it. The music is deceptively simple. The musicians and the approach bring out the compliexity. A good example of this is the tune, LULLABY FOR JOHN, a hauntingly simple lullaby on the surface with the kind of raw edge that befits a tune about John Lennon.