Donovan Frankenreiter (self-titled demo)

I got this from my landlord when I moved into my apartment back in 2002. He's a personal friend of the guy, and had some demo cds to hand out. Turns out the music is really quite good. It's along the same lines as Jack Johnson, which isn't all that surprising considering Donovan Frankenreiter is also a well known free-surfer, and they travel within the same circles in the surfing world where they have been friends for years. I think Jack Johnson actually produced his first full length album It's mellow, strummed acoustic guitar with a bass for backing. The album is short at only 7 songs, but this is a demo. He's since released a full-length album that includes most of the songs on here, with a full backing band. However, I tend to like the versions on here. They sound better with sparser musical backing. I really like this album. I listen to it every now and then when I'm in the mood for watching the sun set over the ocean and feeling melancholy, yet optimistic. Wait, that actually happens a lot. I should listen to this album more often. Unfortunately I don't have a link for this album considering its unreleased nature (Heck, I could probably ebay this things for some good scratch considering he's a decently known musician now.), but you can find music clips on youtube. His site, donavonf.com doesn't actually have any sound clips, which is kind of surprising.