Talk To Total Strangers

• A live CD, with 17 songs culled from 12 shows recorded between late March and early May, 1999.

• Recorded, mixed & mastered by Peter Beckerman, then of Mr. Small’s Funhouse, Millvale PA. (John Belch also recorded 4 of the songs which ended up as “keeper” performances). Remastered in 2006 by Scott Hull of Scott Hull Mastering (NYC.)

• Over 200 copies of Talk to Total Strangers were sold the first summer after it came out (1999), in the woods of Minnesota while Brad was working at Concordia Language Villages.

• contains songs written as far back as 1988 (“Ashland”), through 1999 (“Out of this Town.”)

• Recorded in part to substitute for the two older cassette releases (from ‘92 & ‘93), which contain many of Brad’s more popular songs (among those who know his songs!) , but which he stopped selling about that time.

• CD Title comes from Brad’s most-requested song of all time, “Skyler.”

• cover image (of Brad’s name on a marquee) comes from a show Brad did at the Shttp://www.bradyoder.com/wp-admin/edit-pages.php?page=so_list Songscottdale Showtime Theatre in Scottdale, PA in April, 1999.

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