Album Notes

Ocean Waves by StephenBard is about love and family; About being away from things that make you keep on hanging in there till you're back. Sometimes you're somewhere you don't want to be. This album is about the stuff you see and the things you feel when you're there. It's got some Beatles in it, some Billy Joel, some Joni Mitchell, some Indigo Girls...but it's all StephenBard. StephenBard writes all the songs, plays all the instruments and sings all the parts. There's alot of acoustic guitar and hammond organ. Especially fun and water-like throughout is the Fender Flower Telecaster through a Leslie speaker that gives the impression of George Harrison's work on ABBEY ROAD and LET IT BE. Dreamy Joe and CherieLynn sing harmony on "Vanishing" which quotes from "Sloop John B." The Friends Of Jon Cohen perform "For Eddie Ray Howard." Howi Vinni co-produced "And The World Goes Round." RyanBall manned the console, twiddled the knobs and pushed the faders. StephenBard is not a rock star, a pop star or a movie star. He's a husband, a father and a musician and this is the most personal, heartfelt music of his life thus far. Ocean Waves, for those times when you're waiting in the darkness and searching in the silence.