Songs From The Lion
Original Cast Recording

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Award-winning American singer/songwriter, guitar player and playwright Benjamin Scheuer will release his debut record, Songs From The Lion, this spring. The album, featuring music from Scheuer’s critically acclaimed one-man musical memoir The Lion, is out June 3. Scheuer wrote Songs From The Lion as he was playing gigs around his hometown of New York City. “I was singing about my dad, who died when I was thirteen. Singing about a romantic rela¬tionship I was in that went well until it went bad. Singing about my diagnosis with, treatment for, and cure of advanced stage cancer.” The Lion has won numerous awards in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Scotland, and South America, including: • 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance • 2015 Theatre World Award • Off-West End Award for Best New Musical • 2016 British Animation Award for Public Choice Favorite Music Video • 2015 Encounters Film Festival, UK, Best Music Video for “Cookie-tin Banjo” • 2014 British Animation Award, Public Choice for Best Music Video for “The Lion” “Those songs are awfully well-constructed and exactingly played; there’s a hint of Paul Simon in Scheuer’s easy, knowing lyrics and disciplined musicianship.” — Washington Post “Scheuer plays the guitar like it’s an extension of himself…spellbinding” — Time Out London “Benjamin’s guitar playing is like his song writing; fluid, accomplished, rich in melody and breathtaking in technique.” — Mary Chapin Carpenter Scheuer “gets to the heart of the matter” — New York Times “Ballsy and original… the magic of The Lion is that it is real, intimate and wonderfully moving”