Every guitar has a number of songs inside of it and every guitar gives you access to completely different kinds of songs. You understand that when a guitar player plays a guitar, it tells HIM what kind of songs THEY are going to write together. Inside my Gibson Les Paul, I found songs full of snarling blues riffs and cascading chord structures. These are the kind of songs my guitar and I wrote together. The Shell Game Trilogy, for me, represents an intersection where rocking blues riffs, soul laden landscapes and melodic chord structures collide.
There are FOUR albums in this trilogy. The fourth encompasses rock, guitar instrumental songs.
Artist note: this isn't a "concept album" or a "rock opera". The Shell Game is the common thread that links these four albums together within the three release dates.
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RELEASE DATE: 7 / 7 / 14
01. Heartache to Come
02. Sugarcoated
03. Who's More Afraid?
04. Fooling Myself
05. Tears On the Water
06. Lost Your Broken Wing
07. Soothe You For A Little While
08. The Truth Can Set You Free
09. Shadow
10. Across a Crowded Room
11. Broken Mirror
FULL ALBUM STREAMA nasty blues riff leads into the opening line, "I don't even know my name." ...and the Shell Game is on. Just like in the classic shell game, three cups (or albums) are set in motion and the trick is to discover where the treasure lies hidden (the fourth album). Four albums, three release dates. This is Gary Eisenbraun's Shell Game Trilogy. A year and a half in the making, available now.
Featured songs: the riff heavy "Sugar Coated", the punk flavored "Shadow" and the epic blues, "Across a Crowded Room".
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RELEASE DATE: 8 / 26 / 14

01. Echoes Through My Time
02. You Know Me Too Well
03. Sleepless Every Night
04. Crash At the Side of the Road
05. Wrapped Up in Your Suspicious Mind
06. Waist Deep
07. Love Ain't Nothing Like It Seems
08. Throw My Life Away
09. Time Won’t Make You
10. If I'd Only Known
11. Watching the River Rise
12. Messin' With the Wind
FULL ALBUM STREAMGuitar notes ripple intensely as the chorus line pleads passionately, "Mercy baby, I just didn't see you as the one" and the Shell Game continues. Gary's songs travel through the emotional spectrum. Ominous tones prevail initially, followed by forays into reflective and melodic spaces. It's seven weeks later and this is Shell Game II. Four albums, three release dates....
Featured songs: the acoustic "Sleepless Every Night", the sexy and hypnotic "Love Ain't Nothing Like It Seems", and the playful blues rock of "Waist Deep".
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RELEASE DATE: 10 / 14 / 14

01. I Can't Love You No More
02. Don’t Want to Wait For the End of the World
03. Messed Up On My Chances With You
04. Don’t Save It for Me
05. Lost Inside a Dream
06. Don't Make It Right
07. Hold Tight Baby
08. Rise and Fall
09. Hard Luck Time
10. Broken By the Fall
11. Dirt On My Hands
FULL ALBUM STREAM
12. Under a Dream
13. Soul Stealer
14. Secret Pact
15. Infinite Sunshine
16. Hunt & Gather
17. Intuition
18. Midnight Unraveling
19. The Gates of Isolation
20. Skywriting
21. The Joker
22. Prisoner of the Mind
23. Reflection
FULL ALBUM STREAMA wailing guitar out in the distance cries out for a love that is no more and Gary proclaims "what's gone is gone, ain't comin' back" in the final installment of the Shell Game series. This is where we find the promised hidden treasure, the concealed joker in the deck, ...the rock guitar instrumental (songs 12-23 of this particular release). ...
Featured songs: the hard rocking "Don’t Want to Wait For the End of the World", the down home bluesy "Don't Make It Right", the driving, melodic "Hard Luck Time" and the soul laden guitar instrumental "Secret Pact".
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GARY'S NOTES: Looking back, I vaguely remember so much and so little about the Shell Games... When songwriters write so many songs, it's difficult to remember every single detail of every single song that you've written. Certain songs from this writing period stick out and others, I just have a vague remembrance of their creation. It's funny what your memory holds onto. The thing that I distinctly remember was trying to take all of these songs and route them into three seperate and cohesive albums. There were about fifty songs to begin with. It became complicated, holding all of them in my head while I tried to solve the puzzle. This was further complicated by the fact that some of them weren't even finished until early 2014. I really wanted each album to have a little bit of a different flavor. It all became a lot easier after I found an opener and closer for each album....
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FINAL SHELL GAME UPDATE: 02/16/15 --> The final of TEN Shell Game music videos...
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