EXCEPT-2

Choice of Music

Who decides what ?
In order to become part of the EXCEPT-2 repertoire, a song must meet two main criteria: The melody must strike a chord and performing the song must be technically achievable. Other criteria which are considered: The melody (or the rhythm) must preferably contain "special" features and not too many songs of a similar nature may be present in the repertoire.
For this reason the band does not limit itself to bluegrass-oriented songs, but also has a keen interest in ballads, alt-Country, folk and Cajun music. Also there must be a balance in the number of songs that are sung "lead" by either Mireille and Ruud.
The original repertoire was a mix of the repertoires of "Country Stuff" and ""Country Target". The current repertoire consists of songs that meet the criteria mentioned above. Besides the regular repertoire propositions by the band-members, also ideas of our loyal audience have been added to the repertoire. Talk about interaction ! We don't have to tell you that we really (!) appreciate such suggestions.
Own songs
Since the early beginning of Country-music many beautiful songs have been written. Due to ignorance on our part, only a fraction of those songs have entered our consciousness...... This means that many more songs are patiently waiting to be performed by EXCEPT-2 ! On the first CD "EXCEPTIONAL" we just presented our interpretations of existing Countrysongs. The CD "TAKE-2" already contained five tracks written by Jaap, among them two "instrumentals". The CD "JUNCTION" contains two tunes of our own; a song by Mireille and an "instrumental" composed by Rob Nijman. At this very moment we are busy writing our own songs; what’s more, with the present members we are preparing a CD with nothing but our own songs (!), written by all (!) the members of the band ! The height of creativity !

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