Orphan Blues (3:09) Artist: Fred Hostetler (Indie artist, singer-songwriter) Genre: Blues, Blues Rock, Americana, New Folk Producer: Self-produced, recorded, & performed Writer: Fred Hostetler (ASCAP) Publisher: Hostel Music (ASCAP) , Official Release Date: February 13, 2023
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Wall of Dreams Ep is the fourth album release by Fred Hostetler since returning in 2018 from 17 years in India and is the followup to Fortuna Redux. He is a blues-loving American singer-songwriter and a rock era survivor who co-founded the seminal LA-based blues rock band Blue By Nature in the 90’s. He worked with major artists like Johnny Winter,
Wall of Dreams Ep is the fourth album release by Fred Hostetler since returning in 2018 from 17 years in India and is the followup to Fortuna Redux. He is a blues-loving American singer-songwriter and a rock era survivor who co-founded the seminal LA-based blues rock band Blue By Nature in the 90’s. He worked with major artists like Johnny Winter, Graham Parker, The Knack, Billy Squire, and Jeff Beck, as well as Grammy-winning producer Jack Douglas. He now resides on Whidbey Island in the Pacific Northwest. Hostetler recently received the UK’s 2021 Servern FM Blues Hour ‘Industry Award’. Wall of Dreams Ep is a cohesive thematic work which harkens back to progressive rock days.
‘Somewhere in Paradise’
Producer: Fred Hostetler & Karen Lawrence Recording, mix & mastering: Ricky Delena, Fred Hostetler Musicians: Fred Hostetler guitar, John Goodsall lead guitar, Doug Lunn bass, Tony Brock drums Track Length: 04:12 Composer: K.Lawrence, F.Hostetler Language: English Genres: Post-new wave melodic hard pop, 80’s Rock,
‘Somewhere in Paradise’
Producer:
Fred Hostetler & Karen Lawrence
Recording, mix & mastering:
Ricky Delena, Fred Hostetler
Musicians:
Fred Hostetler guitar, John Goodsall
lead guitar, Doug Lunn bass,
Tony Brock drums
Track Length: 04:12
Composer: K.Lawrence, F.Hostetler
Language: English
Genres: Post-new wave melodic hard pop, 80’s Rock, Heartland Rock
‘Somewhere in Paradise’ is a legacy single pulled from the late 80’s vault of unreleased tracks recorded by Lawrence and Hostetler. After being left off Lawrence’s ‘Rip and Tear’ album for Revolver Records in the UK, fans* who had heard half the track in the low budget film ‘Soultaker’, began to request the release of the full song. Lawrence and Hostetler have done the needful. The song was inspired by a tragic loss early in her music career and as such is dear to her heart.
Karen has honest-to-goodness industry credentials as the co-writer of the song ‘Prisoner’, theme song for the movie ‘The Eyes of Laura Mars’ performed by Barbara Streisand (4x Platinum) and also covered by blues great Joe Bonamassa. She sang on Aerosmith’s ‘Get It Up’ and sang and co-wrote on Jeff Beck’s Beckology as well. List of credits
The new release from Blue By Nature founders and co-writers Lawrence and Hostetler is a follow up to her previous single ‘Bad Spell’, a 2021 release, and the 2019 single, ‘I Couldn't Help But Love You’. Ms. Lawrence is known for her rich song writing skills and powerful vocals which were instrumental in securing for “Blue By Nature’s guitar-based blues sound a solid core of faithful followers across the USA throughout the 1990's, and has continued to appeal to blues lovers through perpetual internet exposure, including interviews, performances, and airplay.”(Steve Gabe, Blues Blast Magazine 2021). Lawrence is in the process of completing a future release and steps out occasionally in south Texas to play live.
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Acoustic blues with guitar and vocal. Eight original songs and the Jimmy Reed classic ‘Bright Lights Big City’. Performance videos of each song are being uploaded to Youtube over the next 6 to 8 weeks.Hostetler was awarded 2019 Best Singer Songwriter by LA Music Critic. This is what I call living room blues. By that I mean stripped down,
Acoustic blues with guitar and vocal. Eight original songs and the Jimmy Reed classic ‘Bright Lights Big City’. Performance videos of each song are being uploaded to Youtube over the next 6 to 8 weeks.Hostetler was awarded 2019 Best Singer Songwriter by LA Music Critic. This is what I call living room blues. By that I mean stripped down, unplugged, and recorded at home.
This single is a fresh bluesy rendition of Bill Wither’s hit song. The new arrangement features Hostetler on vocals echoed by his ‘call and response’ blues guitar riffs.
The song title is emblematic of our need for a river of hope to carry us through these troubling times.This ‘Avant Americana’ single asks us all to pool together, climb aboard, and catch the flow of the river of hope.The music suggests a compelling journey ahead and creates the flow with inventive textures that carry the listener on to river
The song title is emblematic of our need for a river of hope to carry us through these troubling times.This ‘Avant Americana’ single asks us all to pool together, climb aboard, and catch the flow of the river of hope.The music suggests a compelling journey ahead and creates the flow with inventive textures that carry the listener on to river waters. The haunting hypnotic track and uplifting message of the lyric combine to create a mysterious Pacific Northwest ambience. Plenty of vocal work from Hostetler and Cribbs, who are the only musicians on this track as they trade off telling the story of the river. Hostetler was awarded 2019 Best Singer Songwriter by LA Music Critic. Cribbs grew up in Ireland where he first began working in a recording studio.
...'Brilliant and haunting' indiepulsemusic.com
Description: This blues rock single opens with a howling slide guitar that sets the tone, carrying and sustaining the intensity of the lament throughout. With a nod to the storytelling tradition of folk music, Hostetler sings about apparent consequences of climate change as told through the eyes of a field hand surrounded by natural disasters.
Description: This blues rock single opens with a howling slide guitar that sets the tone, carrying and sustaining the intensity of the lament throughout. With a nod to the storytelling tradition of folk music, Hostetler sings about apparent consequences of climate change as told through the eyes of a field hand surrounded by natural disasters. Hostetler was awarded 2019 Best Singer Songwriter by LA Music Critic.
A funky bluesy rocker with 'get down' bass and guitars alongside an evocative lyric and stirring vocal creates a biting commentary on 'me first' culture. Hostetler continues a string of 2019 singles by releasing his third solo effort after the 2018 Heart Radio album release. This time the singer-songwriter crosses into social commentary supported
A funky bluesy rocker with 'get down' bass and guitars alongside an evocative lyric and stirring vocal creates a biting commentary on 'me first' culture. Hostetler continues a string of 2019 singles by releasing his third solo effort after the 2018 Heart Radio album release. This time the singer-songwriter crosses into social commentary supported by a hybrid soulful rock blues groove. Joseph Timmons of Indie Pulse Review comments that Hostetler was a "powerful driving force in Karen Lawrence and Blue By Nature and is known as a 'Spiritually Guided' artist by his contemporaries." The track was recorded and produced by Hostetler and mixed by Robbie Cribbs at Soundtrap Studios.