Take this exhilarating mix of our original Country, R&B, Rock, Reggae, and Pop cuts with you on your travels, however you go, and wherever your journey takes you.

12 MP3 Songs
COUNTRY: Country Pop, URBAN/R&B: R&B Pop Crossover



Details:
The lyrics on this CD were written by J. Krizan for his children, the original music was created by Travel Time Tunes L.L.C. From the sale of this CD, a charitable contribution of $1.00 will be made to UNICEF. Song diversity includes Country, R&B, Reggae, Rock, Pop and Contemporary. Travel Time Tunes, Vol. 1, Hardscrabble Road is a composite body of work and we hope that you enjoy the musical trip, from beginning to end, no matter what your personal music taste might be and where your travels may take you. Look for more CD's from Travel Time Tunes in the future.

BIOGRAPHIES:
Chris- After living the early years in Manhattan, the summers were always filled with day trips to the sunny Jersey shore and weeks at Grandpaâs farm on Hatch Pond in South Kent, Connecticut. Guitar and clarinet lessons didnât do much good because the natural ability just wasnât there. But, we all had fun in the early years and my childhood friends were great. It wasnât till much later that I understood how my friends, the places I saw, and everyone that I met impacted my life. Some of these old friends and new friends would become the founders of Travel Time Tunes. The story really began after graduating from New Jerseyâs Ridgewood High School, my time in Elkins, West Virginia at Davis & Elkins College, and matriculating at West Virginia University. The mix of music that we all listened to ranged from Jimi Hendrix to contemporary, to country western, to R&B, to reggae. We knew what good music was, but seemed like we always purchased single-artist records and listened to radio stations that were frequently of a single genre. After college days came to an end, all of us spread out, some of us traveled, but we all kept in touch and maintained our interest in music. Then, as if written in a script, four of us came up with this great idea at one of our earliest trips to Hardscrabble Road, a local beer joint. There we planned our new band, our recording studio, and music production company for a wide musical selection that would be a source of enjoyment for ordinary people like us who travel or are active most of the time, but still want to bring their tunes. This first CD is dedicated to where weâve been, where weâre going, those weâve met, those weâve loved, and those weâve lost. Take Travel Time Tunes with you on your journey to wherever it may take you!

Bobby- We washed dishes together at a YWCA summer camp while still in high school and was the best summer ever. It was a time of social change, growing up, and the college coeds who worked as counselors made everything so much better. Bobby, who lived near the camp at Livingston Manor, New York was a stage manager for a local band. Bobby was very cool even back then and his good looks and stage job was a chick-magnet for all the young groupies. But Bobby would always rather be reading or talking about politics or something significant and had little interest in silliness.

Janie- In college, she was the prototypical hippie chick, not politically speaking, but in her wardrobe, like she was cast for a part in a sixties movie and had just left wardrobe. She was as cute and pretty as you will see, was well aware of her looks and always concealed her feelings, unless you were in her inner circle of close friends, of which I was one. No matter what she was doing, she was always in complete control. If any boyfriend, and she had many, believed that they could manipulate her, they could not have been more wrong. She was from Jersey too, and we always enjoyed the times she would sing with my car radio on our trips back and forth during college breaks. There was nothing that she could not sing, nothing.

Gina- I met Gina on New Years Eve at the home of a mutual friend. It might have been a poor attempt at setting me up with her, but I was on the rebound and didnât want to jump back into things. Gina was like no other, she had just graduated from Juilliard with a double major in music and drama, and is simply stunning. Her family is old money from Savannah, Georgia. At twelve she had been a featured gospel singer for her local church, and became well known for her wicked R&B ballads in some of the city clubs. Having heard her sing many times in the years following, her vocal style range is without comparison, and Iâm not sure if there is an instrument that she can not play. We soon became best friends but romance never happened for us, we are still best friends.

Jared- During a trip to Aruba, there was this guy and his reggae band singing at the hotel where I was staying. It was a blend of reggae and rap and sometimes country. We got to talking about music, traveling, and were surprised to hear that he briefly lived in Manhattan as a kid and since traveled about as much as me. Jared became the last member of our band but he is the kind of guy that you think that you have known all your life. There is nothing that he would not do for you and never asks for anything in return. He is deeply religious, extremely disciplined in mind and body, and is satisfied by making music for the enjoyment of others. When we are not recording or on tour he can usually be found at some cool beach.