Dudes is the sixth full-length album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by singer/songwriter

Songwriter

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 David Mead

David Mead

David Worth Mead is a Nashville-based pop singer-songwriter, best known for his soaring vocals and such albums as Indiana and Almost and Always...

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The songs that made the final tracklisting were chosen by a group of fans who were a part of the Kickstarter campaign to fund the album. Of the fifteen songs fans were given to audition, eleven made the final cut. The twelfth song on the album, "Curled Up In The Corner", was added during the recording sessions.

The songs that didn't make the cut from the Kickstarter demos were "On My Street", "Milk Baby", "The National Conference For Sales Managers" and "Plain White Men".

The official release date for the album is November 15, 2011, but fans who contributed to the Kickstarter campaign started to receive their copies of the album during the week of September 19.

Track listing

1. I Can't Wait
2. King of the Crosswords
3. Tell Me What I Gotta Do
4. Guy On Guy
5. Bocce Ball
6. Dudes
7. Happy Birthday, Marty Ryan [5:46]
8. Curled Up In The Corner
9. The Smile Of Rachael Ray
10. No One Roxx This Town No More
11. Don't Forget
12. Knee-Jerk Reaction