Van Stephenson & Giant - Holdin On For Dear Life (Writers Demo, 1992) CD Out July 26 on MRC

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This is Van Stephenson, but with a little help from his friends.
During the course of sorting the archives into categories, a certain number of tracks were found to feature vocalists other than Van. I decided that the box sets should be dedicated to just Van with his songs, so the idea came to put together a separate release that featured these songs - Van’s own or co-written demos and the various vocalists used on those original sessions.
Hence the title - ‘Same Pen, Different Voices’.
And while Van’s voice may be absent from this release - his spirit and his style are all over it, with some absolute melodic classics about to be launched. This is a double disc of lost Van Stephenson tunes written with many of his regular writing partners such as Dave Innis, Sam Lorber, Robert White Johnson, Bob Farrell and Dave Robbins.
But that isn’t all. Lost among the hundreds of songs were a set of session tracks written with Dann Huff for the classic Giant ‘Time To Burn’ album. One of those songs has already been featured on the ‘Van’s Versions’ release (‘Get Over It’), but I’m excited to announce the others will all make their debut on this release and they all feature the voice of Dann Huff himself.
Three of these tracks have never been released before and I must thank Dann for his co-operation in this release and allowing the tracks to finally see the light of day.
They may have been lost for 30 years, but they are magnificent!
It doesn’t stop there - there is a trilogy of songs co-written with Jaime Kyle (previously released), two featuring vocalist Robert White Johnson and another featuring TJ Seals, son of Dan Seals.
Van Stephenson - Same Pen, Different Voices 2CD set will be released by MelodicRock Classics July 26.
About the Van Stephenson Archives Project:
Throughout his professional life, Van never stopped writing and recording, leaving behind one of the most astounding libraries of songs, which runs the gamut of styles.
From his origins in 70s singer/songwriter pop, to full blown anthemic 80s AOR/melodic rock and midwestern pop, through to an evolving acoustic driven singer/songwriter style in the early 90s, to his dedicated country sound of the 90s.
Across all eras, Van’s many influences and styles crossed over with one and another and can be heard on the various tracks, as fans will all get to hear.
Working closely with Van’s family, a collection of over 500 songs has been amassed from reel to reel, CD and DAT sources.
Most of Van’s writing partners have already been contacted and we are proud to announce the co-operation of several of them today: Dave Robbins, Sam Lorber, Jeff Silbar, Bob Farrell, Tim DuBois, Phil Brown, Jan Buckingham, Henry Paul, Dann Huff and Dave Innis.

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