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Mark Arneson - City Stories

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Sample Tracks
There He Goes Again
Midnight

All Tracks
1) Intro
2) There He Goes Again
3) What Do You Think
4) Always Something
5) Street Box
6) Now or Never
7) Big Game
8) Where It Comes From?
9) Being Caught
10) Somebody's Baby
11) Fancy Ray
12) Because of You
13) Special Sign
14) Give Me A Sign
15) Don't Give Up
16) Inner City Stories
17) Homeless
18) Midnight
19) Finale
20) Closing Credits
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City Stories
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I never thought about doing something like this, until i heard Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation, Arneson explains. Here were two guys -- Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis -- writing music from the perspective of Janet Jackson, who's a woman. I thought that would be a good creative challenge. They filled up every nook and cranny of space, with sounds and samples flying around. I thought that was very cool. My album is kinda like putting that concept on top of some hip Steely Dan chords. It's a combination of two elements - that busy Jam & Lewis-style production, with the killer drum machine sounds and other Flyte-Time-y stuff, plus some Jazzy Steely chords underneath.

Reviews
'Project leader Arneson may still come off as a journeyman, as the behind-the scenes co-star of his own album. But no less a guitarist than Eric Clapton has called himself a journeyman, so that's not too shabby a thing to be. With a little luck and promotion, jobbing guitarist Arneson may soon be better known as a hit songwriter. His City Stories -- catchy and undeniable slices of pop/rock/funk as polished as Where It Comes From, Because of You, and Now or Never -- deserve to be heard (and danced to) in a lot of urban locales, both here and abroad.'

~ Tom Surowicz, Writer, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

'Instrumental Ace!'

~ Jon Bream, Writer, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

'Great Guitar Player'

~ Jeff Skunk Baxter, Steely Dan & Doobie Brothers
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