Daddy A Go Go Says: Who Needs Kid Rock When You've Got 'Grandkid
Rock'?
“Boydston brings a percussive beat and sly humor to
songs like ‘I Caught My Daddy Watching Cartoons.’”– People
Magazine
“The lyrics are pure kid, but parents will hear nods to the
Eagles, the Dead and even proto-punks the Vaselines. End
result: a perfect soundtrack for changing diapers, washing
the minivan or just bopping around the kitchen." – Newsweek
“John Boydston celebrates kids and classic rock with slick
'60s pop references, entertaining lyrics with a froth of
good-for-you messages and feel-good, sing-along bounce.” –
Los Angeles Times
"You gotta love the brains and instruments behind Daddy A Go
Go -- John Boydston, a former CNN producer and current
stay-at-home dad who came of age in rock's golden era and is
now trying to re-create it for kids. He does it with his
original songs, groaner pop culture puns, smart covers and
ripping guitar lines ... Daddy A Go Go proves again that
he's one of kids-music's rockin'-est rulers." – Minneapolis
Star-Tribune
2/18/11 Multi-award-winning children’s rock and roll
recording artist Daddy A Go Go, a.k.a. Atlanta stay-at-home
dad John Boydston, enthusiastically announces the April 19
release of his eighth CD, Grandkid Rock (Boyd’s Tone
Records, $11.99, run time 40 minutes, for ages 3 – 10).
A leading advocate for rock and roll in kids’ music, former
CNN producer John Boydston has been “rocking out and raving
on” for families since 1998. The acclaim has been
tremendous. Five Daddy A Go Go CDs have made Amazon.com’s
“Best of the Year” critics’ list. Come on, Get Happy (The
Best of Daddy A Go Go, Volume I) was included this past
November on the AOL ParentDish “Top 25 Albums for Kids”
list. Monkey in the Middle and Mojo A Go Go were honored
with the prestigious Parents’ Choice® Award. The Washington
Post credited Daddy A Go Go with helping change the face of
kids’ music by moving “playroom tunes into the pop-rock
era.” Kids’ music authority Warren Truitt
(About.com/Children’s Music) characterized Boydston’s albums
as “full of puns, parental pop music winks, and headbanging
riffs … John Boydston lets the jokes fly and the rock and
roll thunder.” Daily Candy Kids declared, “Not some
watered-down musician for wee ones, Boydston isn’t afraid to
shred some serious guitar riffs.”
A “greatest hits” album comprised of 16 remixed tunes that
John Boydston considers his “rockingest rockers” from six
previous Daddy A Go Go CDs, Grandkid Rock cheerfully
continues the Daddy A Go Go alterna-rock tradition of what
Stomp & Stammer described as “upbeat, wildly entertaining
rave-ups, sing-alongs and silly puns that have endeared the
group to kids (and their parents) nationwide.” While
Boydston’s most recent release, Come On, Get Happy, focused
on softer songs for younger children, Grandkid Rock goes the
other direction, rocking out for the bigger kids with lots
of electric guitars, drums, driving rhythms and power
chords.
Why Grandkid Rock? John Boydston explains, “Grandparents are
cool, beloved, and cherished, which is why on each of my CDs
there are a couple of songs with shout-outs to them. I
thought why not put some of those tunes together and share a
little grandparental love? I even re-tracked the lyrics on
‘I Caught My Daddy Watching Cartoons,’ making the old guy
even older yet.”
Born in Oklahoma, John Boydston graduated from the
University of Oklahoma with a Masters in Journalism. He
spent ten years working as a television news producer,
making stops at CNN, WSVN, and WSB before leaving the news
biz in the mid-’90s to become a stay-at-home dad, a move
that set the scene for his rebirth as Daddy A Go Go. All
this happened when his sons were young, with the boys
providing inspiration for many of the earliest Daddy A Go Go
songs. Boydston has never looked back.
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