Are You A Dreamer? Madison Demos (2003-2004)

by Denison Witmer

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jonkenney This is one of my favorite Witmer songs and hearing the early version of this track is great! The lyrics being slightly different provides a little insight into Denison's creative process. Favorite track: California Brown and Blue (DEMO).

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1.	Little Flowers (DEMO) 02:54	info	buy track
2.	Ringing of the Bell Tower (DEMO) 04:02	info	buy track
3.	Are You a Dreamer? (DEMO) 04:04	info	buy track
4.	East from West (DEMO) 03:19	info	buy track
5.	California Brown and Blue (DEMO) 03:58	info	buy track
6.	Worry All the Time (DEMO) 04:06	info	buy track
7.	Finding Your Feet Again (DEMO) 03:45	info	buy track
8.	Birds Wine Guitars (DEMO) 02:40	info	buy track
9.	Crescent City (DEMO) 02:55	info	buy track
10.	Days Repeating (DEMO) 03:20	info	buy track
11.	How to be Alone (DEMO) 04:16	info	buy track
12.	Postcard Song (DEMO) 03:59	info	buy track
13.	Adella (DEMO) 03:26	info	buy track

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Are You A Dreamer? - Madison Demos (2003-2004)

In 2003 and 2004, I sat at the desk in the room off my bedroom in Madison, WI and wrote the majority of the album “Are You a Dreamer?” I recorded demo after demo after demo there. While cleaning off an old computer last week, I stumbled across a folder with these demos and spent the afternoon listening and reminiscing. That night, I decided that 16 years later (!!!), it's time for you to hear them. A handful of these songs never made the final album and have never been released. Some of them are works-in-progress songs that, in altered form, ended up on the final album. Other demos feel similar to the final recordings. The songs were recorded live and simple arrangement ideas were added quickly. Some have different lyrics and others have lyrics that surfaced later in other songs. Retrospectively, I cringe at some of the placeholder ideas and rejoice in others.

Bandcamp is waiving their revenue share today (Friday, Sept. 5) and passing 100% of proceeds to artists. I have decided to use this limited release of Are You a Dreamer - Madison Demos as a fundraiser for my next project. Generously, the same person who matched your donation in October 2018 (which helped me make American Foursquare) has offered to do it again. Every purchase of the Are You a Dreamer Madison Demos will again be matched, up to $5,000. All the money goes toward making new music.

This album will be available for just this weekend, though today has the most financial impact on fundraising due to Bandcamp's fee waiver.

10% all sales will go to BlackMamasMatter.org

Thank you for supporting my efforts to keep writing and recording music. I take nothing for granted.

Xo 
Denison

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released September 4, 2020

Recorded and engineered by Denison Witmer in 2003-2004
Background vocals in Little Flowers: Kaleen Enke
Original artwork knitting: Kaleen Enke
Cover art layout: Amy Mees

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Denison Witmer has been recording and releasing music since 1995 when he released a cassette titled My Luck, My Love, under the tutelage of the Innocence Mission’s Don Peris. Since then, Witmer has been steadily releasing music every few years. He now has over a dozen critically acclaimed EPs and LPs to his name. ... more

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