Just last week I wrote about my friend Frederick Ingram‘s new Christmas jam, “Jesus of Nazareth (Walked into a Bar).” What I didn’t realize is that the tune was a part of a new album—really a double EP—that Frederick has been quietly assembling.
(Note that I’ll refer to Frederick Ingram as “Frederick” here on out, as I know him personally and consider him a friend. I know the standard is to use the artist’s last name in subsequent mentions, and if some big city alternative paper picks up this review, I’ll happily edit it accordingly. For this blog, though, I’m keeping it on a the first-name basis. —TPP)
The record—which drops today!—is Initial Exposure, and it combines tracks from two EPs from earlier this year: June 2021’s Initial Exposure and November 2021’s Culture Exposure (which features the song about Jesus delivering His Message in a hopping nightspot).
I’ll confess that, at the time of writing, I have not listened to all of the ten tracks on the LP (but I did buy it on Bandcamp!), though I have heard several of them before, both live and recorded versions. As such, this post is not a review of the album, per se, but instead a way to help give Initial Exposure some, uh, initial exposure.
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