NEW YORK -- What happens when you rescue a boy genius from abuse and neglect, give him a cherry Harley, two ex-wives, two kids and stick him in the studio for twenty years to make Rock n' Roll? Quite simply: Green & Checkers

Veteran studio engineer and producer Richard Oliver spent the last twenty years negotiating the fast-moving rock-music business. During this time, he garnered an impressive collection of awards and metallic albums for his work on everything from the Rolling Stones to the B-52's to Donna Summers. Finally, Oliver did what others kept telling him to do, took his musical genius and applied it to his own works - story-telling and poetry taken from years of journal writing and napkin-jotting.

Teamed up with Trip Records' own Boffo Santana-Jones, the two gathered an impressive roster of veteran music-makers and studio talent and created Green & Checkers.

Far from being genre-centric, Green & Checkers presents to us a twisted, let's-not-take-this-too-seriously melding of 30 years of rock influences, from pure honest rhythms to R&B to alternative, which sum up to make a terrifying and believable recording. This material spells out the mathematics of damaged souls who have lived and died by the fast-moving maggot-infested rock-music business through the years, and the shattering effect it has on the personal lives of those sucked into that swirling vortex.

Music like this is rare these days: it's an honest and unpretentious collection of songs originally recorded without the intent of even making records available to the public, but to many was just too uniquely brilliant to let it go unnoticed by the world.

Green & Checkers: Like the Inventors of Polaroid - quick snapshots of honest life.

Trip Records is a nationally distributed, Maine based independent label dedicated to the support and release of hard-hitting and exquisite Queer music and musical contortionists of all disciplines.

+ Streaming Audio Soundbytes, Quicktime Video clips and more can be found on the internet at http://www.tripnet.com/trip/green/

+ Music Video for the lead track "Pack of Winstons" available now.