Right in time for an after-school treat, musician Brady Rymer is releasing his latest fun-ciful song and video for kids, “The Friendliest Dinosaur.”
Rymer, a Southold resident and three-time Grammy Award-winning musician, has been pretty busy this year. In April, he released the seasonally apropos album “Sunny Side Up” to kick off the warm weather and fun in the sun for families on the East End.
Friday, Sept. 12, however, marks the release of his 14th studio album — the second in a single year — Baby Rhino, and with it today a fun, upbeat video for the album’s song “The Friendliest Dinosaur” for the kids (and T. Rex fans everywhere — the dino, not the musician) to clap and dance along to.
And, perhaps, learn a few good vocabulary words for the school year: In one swift musical bar, Rymer rhymes “precocious,” “ferocious,” and “atrocious.” As writers and editors, we can totally get behind that.
“I challenged myself to reconnect with a younger crowd in these songs, tapping back into the energy of my early days of making music for families, when my kids were little,” says Rymer. “I wanted Baby Rhino to have a soundtrack — songs that would fit in their world and make little ‘rhinos’ everywhere sing, dance, and toot their own horns!”
The song is certainly a toe-tapper, and Rymer’s happy-go-lucky strumming and general warmth are likely to grab the musical affections of wee ones, as with his prior collection of family-friendly songs.
Also on Baby Rhino are tunes like “Helicopter! Helicopter!”, “Uh-Oh,” — an ode to the little mistakes of childhood — “Up and Down,” Brady’s taken the Grateful Dead song “The Monkey and the Engineer.”
Rymer’s career began with the ’90s jam band, From Good Homes, which was on RCA records and performed all over the world. With the birth of his son, Gus, in 2000, Rymer looked closer to home for musical inspiration and began penning songs inspired by his foray into parenthood.
For more information about the new album and performances, click here.
