

It plays in other caves! It is a very poorly named song! And, while it doesn’t get nearly enough praise, the Final Fantasy airship theme is still one of the most triumphant ditties I’ve ever heard. While Prelude and the main theme of Final Fantasy are obvious choices from the first adventure, I still remember every time I hit a location in FF1 that played Matoya’s Cave. The Final Fantasy franchise has always had good music.

I cannot describe the significance of the presence of those songs. Oh, and there were three Final Fantasy songs in there: Final Fantasy 6’s Mog (Moogle Waltz), Final Fantasy 8’s Laguna (The Man with the Machine Gun), and Eyes on Me. I eagerly await the day when all hope seems lost, and the Squirrel Nut Zippers return to us, refreshed and rejuvenated, with the Mighty Mighty Bosstones in tow, and then The Second Great Age of Ska may begin.

And, look, I’ll level with you, readers, I was really into ska. Dire Straits snuck in there for some reason, Foo Fighters joined ‘em, and I think I was into some noticeable Garbage to boot. I can still distinctly recall my first “mix CDs”… let’s see here, there was Butthole Surfers, a healthy amount of Blues Traveler, and a surprising excess of Chicago.
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And this was the glory days of music piracy! You couldn’t just download an entire discography in seven seconds no, you had to carefully pick and choose which songs you wanted, as, if you tried to download a complete new CD, it would hog all your bandwidth for the next year. This was pretty awesome, as, when I finally hit the age where I had my own musical preferences, there was suddenly every song ever recorded available, for free, and all a half hour download away. I’m a child of Napster, or, more appropriately, I was a teenager of Napster (figure out my age from context clues!). He’s always felt that what makes Nashville great is everyone’s willingness to help one another, and his work ethic is influenced by of one of his favorite sayings: “Separate the word impossible and what do you get… I’m Possible.I guess this has to happen once every hundred articles or so… He played and sang with Carrie Underwood at LP Field during CMA Fest in 2015 and was also invited to play for Meghan Trainor on her collaboration with Miranda Lambert during the 2014 CMA Awards.įraley’s story is one that shows that hard work pays off. While being band leader for American Idol finalist Danny Gokey, Fraley found himself on tours with artists such as Taylor Swift, Lady Antebellum and Tim McGraw. Fraley’s cross-genre abilities as a writer, vocalist and instrumentalist led him to being on tour, playing stadiums with Gretchen Wilson and having a multi-platinum song in the Korean Pop market whose accompanying music video has crossed over 65 million views on YouTube. Tommy Sims (Eric Clapton/Bruce Springsteen/Garth Brooks) quickly took him under his wing and put him to work on albums he was producing. He was soon working and writing with some of Nashville’s finest. For the finale he performed with his wife, Jamelle, and country artist Hunter Hayes.įraley signed a producer/publishing deal with Sony LA quickly after graduating in 2000 from Belmont. He was joined on stage by many friends including Danny Gokey, Cindy Morgan, Jill Phillips, Andy Gullahorn, Chris Rodriguez, Steve Sinatra, Justin Eason, and Todd Wines. 13 on the country charts in December with rave reviews.The Curtain Call Award is presented annually to a School of Music alumnus in honor of achievement in the field of commercial and popular music. During an interview on stage Wednesday night with Bright, Brandon shared his experiences at Belmont and working in the music industry after graduation. Fraley and his wife and fellow alum Jamelle (’03), who first met in the atrium between Wilson and MPAC, make up the new country duo Two Story Road. The group’s highly anticipated debut EP, produced by Nashville hitmaker Mark Bright (Carrie Underwood/Luke Bryan/Rascal Flatts), debuted on iTunes at No. The School of Music honored Commercial Music alumnus Brandon Fraley (2000) with the Curtain Call Award on Wednesday evening.
