“It doesn’t rhyme and it rolls along with abundant amount of melodic freedom.” After contemplating a solo album for several years, Vaughn’s suggestion last fall pushed Freeman into action. “Every time I would listen to ‘As I Love My Own,’ it would strike me as a song Aaron could have written,” noted producer Ben Vaughn, who also helmed Ween’s 12 Golden Country Greats album in 1996, and who first played McKuen for Freeman. Hear Dean Ween's Trippy, Diverse Solo Debut LP, 'The Deaner Album' With Rod McKuen’s songs, there’s no reason to affect your voice.” I wanted to make sure I sang it straight. “Maybe it’s my age, but I really just wanted to just have my own voice, and really make sure that I stuck to it. “I love singing in different voices,” he says. I was born with that name, but everybody I knew, it seemed – it wasn’t really that way – was calling me Gener or Gene.” Gone also are the goofy affectations he has often used to mask Ween’s sometimes extraordinarily personal lyrics, which could often blur into comedy. “It’s really weird having two names, and I wanted to be Aaron Freeman. “I’d been having an identity crisis for a long time,” Freeman told Rolling Stone. The album marks Freeman’s first solo release since Gene Ween’s 1987 Synthetic Socks cassette, and arguably his most straight-faced and rawly emotional endeavor to date. But today (May 8th), Freeman releases Marvelous Clouds, an irony-free collection covering songs by kitsch singer/poet Rod McKuen, and the singer’s first album under his own name. Aaron Freeman is better known as “ Gene Ween,” his funny-voiced alter-ego that has sung as one half of cult-duo Ween since 1984.
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