Oh hi.

Fraser here

So I'm guessing... you've either read all of that, or you skipped to the end to search for the small print for the 'deal' or the 'catch'.

Hahaha! I do that too. 

Well, honestly and with hand on heart...there is no catch.

Then why is your album free?

Good question and I will totally answer it, but first... let me tell you a quick story about the album I'd like to send to you, 'Coming up for air'.

Well you've come this far, you might as well pull up a bean bag, pour yourself a wee dram and kick off your slippers. 

So I had released my debut album , 'and the girl with the strawberry...' back in the Summer of 2003 and the following autumn I had written a collection of new songs that we really believed in, so recording costs were needed to create the second album.

(Coming up for air is that album.)

My ex-wife decided one night that we should sell our home to raise the money. A big gamble but we did exactly that. Which lead to the realisation that we would soon rent a home so we then thought... "we could live anywhere - in Europe". This was pre-Brexit.

So we were excited.

Soon we had sold everything aside from two guitars, the piano, the cat and our three young children. 

So late one night, with a map of Europe on the kitchen floor, with one hand in the air and the other hand covering her eyes, my ex wife plonked her hand down onto the map with her index finger showing us where we would move to.

It could have been anywhere.

We held our breath and looked at the map to see where our adventure was to begin.

France...somewhere between Bordeaux and Bergerac.

So we did it...we planned a move to the famous wine region in the south of France.

It might have been slightly bonkers for a young family to risk everything with no work lined up, we hardly spoke any French and we didn't know anyone in France but we did it anyway.

And It was at times the most wonderful adventure but it did end in a divorce so...

"Nice story dude but why is your album free?"

Oh yeah :-) Thanks for reminding me...well, It's simply because your email address is the only thing that guarantees that you and I can stay in touch.

Social media platforms can come and go. Remember myspace? 

So if you give me your email address and I give you a free album, I'm hedging my bets that you'll like the album so much that you'll want to join us for future adventures and stay for the long run. 

I'm hoping you'll want to hear about tours and live shows in your town so you might then buy a ticket or two and maybe even tell your friends who in turn might like my music too and so on.

The music industry has changed so much in recent years and now it is now the responsibility of the artist to find their audience so this is just me doing my best to do that.

I'll also send you a monthly e-newsletter with hilarious and sometimes touching stories called the 'FAM Independent', (Fraser Anderson Music / FAMily.) [see what we did there?]

You'll also get info on tour dates, special offers, discounts, first dibs on new merch lines, t-shirts etc, plus you'll get to see my new music videos like the ones below before anyone else.

So thats why I'd like to send you my album with me covering the cost of the album and you covering the postage.

Much warmth

Frase x