BRACK AND INDY TEAM UP
TO HONOR RACING LEGEND A.J. FOYT
INDIANAPOLIS May 3, 2007
– For years,
Indianapolis 500 champion Kenny Brack has entertained
race fans all over the world with his unique guitar
playing and interpretations of songs. Working with
Indianapolis Motor Speedway to honor old friend A.J.
Foyt, Brack wrote a witty tribute to his former Indy 500
winning team owner entitled “Legend of the Speedway.”
The song is on the highly anticipated CD “Bräck ,
greatest hits volume 1” being released today on
brackmusic.com. The CD will be sold at the Speedway gift
stores throughout May.
“Writing it came easy
to me,” said Brack, who actually wrote the song in 2003,
four years after he won Indy with Foyt. “Come on,” he
laughed, “is there any easier character to write about?
I’m just surprised no one has written a song about him
before.”
“I always knew Kenny
could play the guitar, but after hearing this song, I
found out he can write too,” said Indy’s first four-time
winner. “I thought the song was funny and different,
just like Kenny. I really appreciate that he wrote a
song about me but I don’t know about that part about
fitting in the race car. Wait till I see him at the
Speedway! To be truthful, I think the world of him, and
not just because we had a lot of success together. I
respect him. He’s good people…and he’s one helluva a
race driver.”
The CD will also
feature the songs that Brack and singer/songwriter Franc
Aledia wrote, recorded and produced over the last two
and a half years--songs that captured life with and
without racing.
Along with the release
of the CD, Brack and Niche Productions partner Allen
Farst created a music video for the “Legend of the
Speedway” which can be viewed on brackmusic.com. It will
be featured at the Speedway during May as part of the
celebration surrounding Foyt’s 50th anniversary in Indy
car racing. The music video will be played on 35 Jumbo
Tron displays, six times a day, at the historic
speedway. It can also be seen on the front page of
IndyCar.com, the official website of IndyCar racing.
Bräck and Niche
Productions had three days to shoot, edit and complete
the rock video. Recounting the making of the video only
adds to the lore surrounding the Speedway and the spirit
it embodies.
As Brack stood on the
track he once called home he prepared this time not to
race but to honor his good friend and former team owner
A.J. It had rained for eight days straight at Indy, but
on this very special day, the sun appeared to welcome
him.
“Look at this day! Even
Mother Nature loves A.J,” marveled Brack as he walked
down Gasoline Alley towards the set. “It’s like a gift
from Heaven, like it’s meant to be,” he told Farst, who
directed and edited the video. Brack had only one day
to film his part. When the day was done, the rain
resumed.
Appearing from the
shadows of the grandstands five historic race cars
slowly, one by one, were rolled on to the front stretch
of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It looked like
Indy’s version of a scene from the movie “Field of
Dreams” when the angels of baseball history appeared
from the cornfield, happy to be back together on the
stage they dominated, in a game they loved to play. The
five cars with five Indy 500 championships between them
stood unusually silent as Kenny and his new band Bräck
performed their debut single “Legend of the Speedway.”
Spirits stirred as the cameras rolled.
"To have all five of
A.J's winning cars on the track was a special day,” said
Farst. “The fact that A.J. sent all of his old uniforms
and original helmets up for the video was even cooler.
We went to put the 1961 helmet on Tyler Walker [playing
young A.J.] and dirt came out of it. Everyone felt the
pressure from that point on that the video needed to
reflect a champion.”
Brack and his new
songwriting partner and Bräck lead singer Aledia were
finishing up on their long awaited CD when Kenny pulled
A.J.’s song out of the drawer and played it for Aledia.
“Kenny trying to
imitate a Texas accent in his Swedish accent was it for
me. I fell in love with it,” said Aledia, who has
written songs appearing on MTV and film soundtracks.
They quickly recorded the song and presented it to
A.J.’s camp and the IRL IndyCar Series, sanctioning body
for the Indy 500. Brack never thought that it would
serve as the soundtrack to something as historical as
A.J.’s 50th anniversary but who better to immortalize
the man behind all the Indy 500 victories in song than
the songwriter who won one for him?
“Kenny Brack is a true
multi-talent,” said Tony George, owner of Indianapolis
Motor Speedway. “He is a talented race car driver,
songwriter and musician and he thrives as a coach and
mentor of young people. One particular song on the (Brack)
CD, “Legend of the Speedway” is a testimony of his
strong and unique relationship with A.J. Foyt and his
respect for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. As an Indy
500 champion, Kenny ensured his own legendary status.”
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Come
rock with Bräck at their Indy debut performance - Live
at the 91st Indianapolis 500 Carb Day
- CD’s and limited
edition Bräck “Legend of the Speedway” T-shirts will be
available at gift shops and sales posts throughout the
speedway.
- Check out
www.brackmusic.com for
the video, song, and more information about Brack and
their hit single release “Legend of the Speedway” from
their debut record “Greatest Hits Volume 1” on Niche
Records.
For information, music,
JPEG’s, or to schedule an interview with Bräck please
contact:
Management
nicheproductions@earthlink.net
937-829-9500
