The Colorful Quiet is the recording/performing name of Stephen Webster, a singer-songwriter originally from Jacksonville, Florida. Though he often performs live acoustic shows, most of his efforts thus far have been focused on writing and recording. He produced and released his 1st album, The Sun is Melting in March 2006, which includes "Survival", a song that has spent over 30 weeks on the iTunes Top 100 Folk Chart (reaching a high of 42). It was also featured on NPR's Open Mic in April 2007, as well as being named a top 15 finalist in American Songwriter Magazine's Craft of Music CD Compilation Contest in September 2007. Sounds of the Countryside, his 2nd album, was released in August 2007 and is an appropriate follow-up to "Sun". Many of the songs are a bit more 'country-folk', in part due to the fact that he enlisted a few musician friends to play such instruments as fiddle, dobro, and pedal steel. "Elevation Is The Key To Flight" is an album of the first songs ever written by Webster when he was in high school, all of which came from a journal that he kept for a writing class in the 10th grade. The sound of the album is intentionally Lo-Fi, because he really wanted it to sound like what 'might have been' recorded if he had owned a 4-track tape recorder back then. To do this, he recorded the entire album on a mid-90's Tascam Portastudio with standard cassettes, a single SM58 microphone, and his original pawnshop acoustic guitar. "Jar Full Of Pennies" is a collection of songs written by Webster when he was in college. They are all essentially 'demos' recorded on a 4-track tape machine, many of them just acoustic guitar and vocals. In a chronological sense, this album follows "Elevation" and is a good picture of his songwriting during those years. As a point of reference, his song "Survival" (from "The Sun Is Melting") was written during this time, as well "Freeman's Song" and "The Day Arrived" (from "Sounds of the Countryside". Webster is currently working on a couple more 'catalog projects' written from 2001-2003, with the intention of releasing them by Fall 2008.