Silicon Cowboy

1. My Dot Com

2. Virtual Love

3. Oscar Hammerstein

4. Loving You

5. If You Lost Somebody

6. Don't Try To Hold Me One Last Time

7. Beach Down In The Islands

8. Over

9. Should Have Known Better

10. One More Tear

11. Mississippi Goodbye

12. A Woman Can Bring

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist
Most Nashville born artists quickly learn to adapt Country music to their own limited life experiences and pen epic songs about bad relationships and hard times. Rick Glaze is different.

For one, he decided not to stay in Nashville.The transplanted 'Silicon Valley Cowboy' not only moved to the land of 'virtual' life in California, he uses his business and financial experiences for his comical look at the media's most intriguing ongoing soap opera and drama, the internet. His debut album, "Silicon Cowboy" could have easily been called, "My View of the dot com internet fiasco in Silicon Valley on the Nightly Financial News."

In songs such as, "My Dot Com", Rick gives us his humorous insight into everyday people's zealous expectations for wealth and prosperity as they bet it all on 'flash in the pan' internet companies that are here today and take their investors for a 'crashing ride' tomorrow. In "Oscar Hammerstein", we see a 'virtual' country drama of those individuals who personally come to Silicon Valley to get rich quick, only to see that dream collapse around them. A modern day story of the desperate search for the gold at the end of the rainbow.

Rick also touches on how the Internet has changed the way people interact with one another. In Virtual Love, he documents how the computer and the internet have not only replaced real relationships but also allowed people to truly shelter themselves by hiding behind fake "virtual" personas.

While it may initially seem that Rick Glaze has chosen an unusual musical format to help us look at this ongoing drama, it is actually the right one to give us the insights into what country artists have sung about for years, the search for a quick way to get rich and get a good woman all at the same time. Unfortunately, the characters in this Silicon Valley drama seem to be 'virtually' lost somewhere in cyberspace.

Product Description
With roots firmly in Country Music this debut CD rocks the listener with three lead off tunes about the dot com shakeout and online virtual relationships. These songs had to be written in Silicon Valley by a Wall Street money manager to get the whole story first hand. Like Hank Williams, Rick Glaze sings with a straightforward country tenor voice that simply tells it like it is. These songs are bound to be regional classics. Nine more songs span the gamut in human relationships to fill out this superb CD.

Tracks:

My Dot Com
Virtual Love
Oscar Hammerstein
Loving You
If You Lost Somebody
Don't Try To Hold Me One Last Time
Beach Down In The Islands
Over
Should Have Known Better
One More Tear
Mississippi Goodbye
A Woman Can Bring

Album Description

With roots firmly in Country Music this debut CD rocks the listener with three lead off tunes about the dot com shakeout and online virtual relationships. These songs had to be written in Silicon Valley by a Wall Street money manager to get the whole story first hand. Like Hank Williams, Rick Glaze sings with a straightforward country tenor voice that simply tells it like it is. These songs are bound to be regional classics. Nine more songs span the gamut in human relationships to fill out this superb CD.

Customer Reviews:

Silicon Valley in Country Western..........2001-01-30

As an engineer who's been around Silicon Valley when the chips were down, I really appreciate Rick's take on life as it is here. His "Dot.Com" song tells it like it is. And I loved "Oscar Hammerstein!" But more than just gimmicky words, they're well strung together, and sung in a voice that's real easy to listen to - and backed up by that good "virtual band" music. This is one I'll keep listening to till it's wore out!

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