Good Enough? |
I started serious songwriting in high school, and continued
through college and a bit after.
Although many of my songs from that era are lost to history (and a few
that arent are cringe-inducing)...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:48:00 GMT |
Dave Carter Songs I Play |
I'll put up a broader Dave Carter post in the near future, around one of the significant Dave dates in the summer. But I just made myself this list, so I thought I'd share. It's every single song I ...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:26:00 GMT |
Testing . . . |
Help! I cannot see my blog post! Things seem to have changed on the blog entry page, and all I can see is a white box -- I'm apparently typing in white text, but can't see it. (How's that for a test...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:04:00 GMT |
Dave Carter Conundrum |
For the past two summers I've been involved in a Dave Carter Tribute Concert, in August, around his birthday. It grew out of a Dave Carter song-circle I used to host each year. As anyone who reads th...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:21:00 GMT |
What Decade Are We In? |
I just got an email message from a senior at the high school I graduated from, appealing to me as a fellow U-High musician. He's in a band that had applied to play at graduation -- they were planning...
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 16:04:00 GMT |
Not Knowing How the Story Ends |
While I was traveling last week, a 2008 episode of Art of the Song came up on my iPod shuffle. David Olney was talking about writing story songs, which I also write; like me, he also writes a lot of ...
Posted by on Mon, 25 May 2009 13:57:00 GMT |
Being in the Band |
Tonight, along with Ken Porter, I'll be backing Mike Delaney at his CD release concert. Mike has recently been backing me a lot, and I'm honored that he asked me to back him at this show.But it's def...
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 12:46:00 GMT |
Meter |
Today I was songwriting as part of my day job. I'm playing music at a department event, and a colleague decided that it would be fun to write a parody song that I would sing, to make fun of the facul...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:51:00 GMT |
Only New Songs |
Monday evening I'm the featured performer at a songwriter night at the Sandbar Grill; the feature plays a set of about 45 or 50 minutes, and I've set myself a challenge: to only play unrecorded songs....
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:39:00 GMT |
Thoughts from the XRP Concert |
Despite the folk cave I grew up in and currently inhabit, I did have a flirtation in college and graduate school with a cappella music. My class year at Oberlin was the first to inaugurate an a cappe...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:56:00 GMT |
