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Frank Wisdom & The Truth (Lost Horizon Archives) is a personal compilation playlist featuring 16 original songs recorded live-to-tape from a period when I regularly performed at premier Nashville songwriter/artist venues The Bluebird Café and Douglas Corner, and others, during my Music Row years. I wrote most of the songs in Nashville during a period when I was a staff-writer at a major music publisher. That gig required me to primarily focus on writing country songs for the publisher’s purposes of pitching appropriate song material to country music producers and country music acts for album cuts and hit singles airplay at country music radio. None of my “archives” compilations fit that bill in any way.

All songs are acoustic guitar/vocal performances which was my solo presentation style in this highly productive period of my writing and performing. I was in my early 30’s and not a true-bred country music guy, but the fact was that Nashville’s “Third Coast” music scene was much more diverse than country music.  I was signed because I know how to write songs. Country radio songs and non-country songs. Add to this revelation the story of my deviating briefly away from music row in 1989 when a major L.A. record producer heard me and immediately arranged “live” auditions for me in Hollywood with Geffen Records and Warner/Sire Records. I killed at Warner/Sire especially so the auditions were wildly successful. I felt at home in L.A. They really got my unique songs and performance style.

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Music Row 1987
Photos: Leanne White