In March of 2011, Tim Friedman approached his friends in Frank & Jesse to propose the vinyl release of their debut album - which was to be released by the band on CD in just over a month. Thanks to many enthusiastic fans, friends, and family members, a...In March of 2011, Tim Friedman approached his friends in Frank & Jesse to propose the vinyl release of their debut album - which was to be released by the band on CD in just over a month. Thanks to many enthusiastic fans, friends, and family members, a Kickstarter campaign was successful and enough money was raised to press 300 copies of Let It Come Down on 180gm black vinyl. This was the birth of Listen Well Records, though its conception took place years earlier.<br />
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Being pulled in no specific direction and spending every earned dollar on records and at shows, Tim decided to enroll at Bowling Green State University around the time his high school peers were earning their college degrees. The only worthwhile long-term goal in his mind was to run his own label. Surely, thousands of dollars in student loan debt would be a step in the right direction. Seven months after receiving a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Tim found that his full-time job was not at all the management of the record label to which he'd aspired, so he hatched a plan.<br />
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Over dinner in March of 2011, John, Seth and Shane of Toledo's Frank & Jesse quickly decided that Tim was the right person to help them raise enough money to release their album on the mutually appreciated medium of vinyl. Less than two months later, Tim picked up the newly pressed records from a fellow BGSU alum at Cleveland's Gotta Groove Records. Thus, Listen Well Records came to be.<br />
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Tim continues work at his full-time job in an effort to support future releases.
