Artist	Song
Buddy Merrill	Busy Bee
The Muppets	For What It's Worth
Sir Frog & The Toads	The Frog
Ike & Tina Turner	The Hunter
Fad Gadget	Back To Nature
PJ Harvey	Long Snake Moan
Roisin Murphy	Primitive
Chelonis R. Jones	Deer In The Headlights
Grace Jones	The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game

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Ode To Forest Friends is a story-based mixtape that asks the question: What if hunted forest creatures decided to turn the tables on the hunters? It was inspired by childhood hunting excursions with my father, Walt Disney's Bambi, and George Orwell's satirical allegory, Animal Farm.

Forest Friend's links together songs from a mixtape I made called Mount; a selection of hunting and animal related pop tunes. The idea here was to take the tone and lyrics of the songs from Mount and use them to tell a short, simple story. Though the songs have little in common stylistically, their differences hopefully aid story progression. The first few songs in Ode To Forest Friends bring to mind a fun fairy-tale, but about half way through things become much darker. When the Eastern Bluebird questions his livelihood, the nightmares begin.

I used several of my friends to voice the show's hunters including Sam Sharkey as Cody, Bobby Barber as Cody's Dad, and Joshua Grannell as Ed.
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