General Ludd Music Now Available In Weed Format

Riverside, CA April 1, 2005 — Bill Foreman, called "the best songwriter you've never heard" in the words of Delusions of Adequacy, has now made his music available in Weed digital audio format. Weed is a legal file-sharing system, in which a listener can hear a song three times before having to purchase the file. Currently, Foreman's most recent album, "Chevy w/Balding Tires" and his 2002 collection "Seventeen Miles Past Indio" are available to download from General Ludd Music (www.generalludd.com).

For over a decade, Foreman has written and performed catchy, idiosyncratic songs for his small but dedicated audience. Splendid E-zine, naming him one of "15 Singer-Songwriters Who'll Help Take Your Mind Off Elliot Smith" wrote: "He's well-educated, highly inquisitive and closely connected to the world around him, and his lyrical narratives sketch characters with a thoroughness (and literary flair) seldom seen in rock 'n' roll. He also has a knack, rarely demonstrated by musicians, for writing convincingly in the third person — his characters don't always speak in his voice, which vastly increases the range and potential of his material."

Foreman's songcraft has won the admiration of his fellow musicians as well. Matt Nathanson, the Universal recording artist who covered Foreman's song "Vandalized" on one of his albums and continues to play the song live, says "Bill Foreman is one of the greatest songwriters we have. Creatively, he has always been 3 steps ahead of everyone else…and consequently, we are all just trying to keep up."

Lyrically, Foreman has few peers, and paying close attention to his words while listening to his songs magnifies their effect considerably. The All Music Guide, in his biography, writes: "His verse remains brilliantly odd, though, using highly emotive images, frequently painting humans with animal characteristics and showing an amazing knack for simply stating the profound." Plugin Music continues, "Complete with rhyme schemes but no choruses, the songs are the truest form of poetry put to music."

Weed (www.weedshare.com) is a legal-file sharing format. Listeners download music files from the internet and then may listen to the songs three times before having to pay for them. Listeners may share the files freely through the web, blogs, or peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa or Limewire. Listeners also share in profit from files they have purchased and shared with other buyers.

Foreman plans to make, in the coming months, his whole catalogue available through Weed, in addition to unreleased material from his archives.

For additional information, contact Bill Foreman at weed@generalludd.com or 951-684-0661.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Bill Foreman
General Ludd Music
951-684-0661
http://www.generalludd.com/

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