Ben Bledsoe - The Life of An Insomniac

The Life of An Insomniac

Natural finished their last tour in Europe and Asia in September 2004. Bledsoe wrote new music with band members Terenzi and Michael Johnson for a project and he taught himself guitar and piano as a way to enhance his compositional skills.

Bledsoe's new songs were a mixture of pop and rock. He wrote all of the songs himself for his first album, and played the guitar and piano (as well as other instruments) in most of the recordings and performances. The CD was named An Insomniac's Guide to a Lonely Heart due to his lack of sleep while creating the album, and the first song he wrote for it, titled "Lonely Heart". He released An Insomniac's Guide to a Lonely Heart on his own record label, 44th Floor Records. It was #1 on Amazon.com for exports to Germany, and was in the top 5% of sales overall. It was simultaneously #1 and #2 on Awarestore.com, beating out Aware's own artists such as John Mayer, Five for Fighting, and Wheatus. The first single release was the tongue and cheek song "Boyfriend".

He began touring in Florida and New York, and continued with Seventeen magazine's national Rock your Prom tour in 2005 and Radio Disney Tours in the U.S. He toured Europe, and played at Hard Rock Cafe's "Rocktober" tour—a charity tour to raise money for breast cancer research.

He currently is working on new music in L.A. with top songwriter/producer, Eddie Galan of Mach 1 Music.