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Brit Abelew

Passionate acoustic songwrting from Brit Abelew

About Me

Born in Hammond, Indiana. Grew up in Abilene, Texas, and has lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin since age 18. Played guitar and has been writing songs since age 15, but recently has taken singing/songwriting seriously on top of being a high school social studies teacher. A few songs played with piano, too. Considers himself more of a singer/songwriter than a musician. Has worked without a band so far, but has recently worked with others in writing new songs, and not against playing with others in a band if the "right people" were to come along.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/16/2005
Band Members: Brit Abelew
Influences: Sara McLachlan, Howie Day, Coldplay
Sounds Like: Male version of Sara McLachlan...an acoustic Savage Garden...Howie Day
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

American Idol Songwriting Contest

Well, my trip to Nashville went well.  I played "Three Drinks, Two Women, One Horse Town" at the Bluebird, with positive response (though if I was sooner on the billing, more people would have he...
Posted by Brit Abelew on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:58:00 PST

I lost everything...and paid $50 to find that out!

I am not really sure where to start here even, but things today have NOT turned out the way I planned.  Today was the first day of the new semester and a share of students would rather do other t...
Posted by Brit Abelew on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:46:00 PST

One step up and one step backs makes it even

Well...things did not go as expected this past Sunday for the CD roulette deal...by the time I arrived there at 1pm, sign up already was finished and there was no more room.  That pretty much kil...
Posted by Brit Abelew on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:41:00 PST

90,000 and counting...

A couple days ago, my car passed 90,000 miles...wow!  And I am about to take it to Chicago tomorrow...and to Arkansas over the holidays...and that may turn out to be an even shorter trip than I h...
Posted by Brit Abelew on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:48:00 PST

Trying to get back on track

Well, tomorrow is the WAMI CD roulette opportunity, and I am blowing the dust off of a song I recorded over a year ago to play at the CD roulette.  It is a piano song called "Heal To Fly" that I ...
Posted by Brit Abelew on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:49:00 PST

Don't Laugh...It's Paid For

A couple days ago, I mailed out my last car payment!  Now I would say the REAL test of my car's longevity begins...how long will it last after it is paid for, and how many MAJOR repairs/upkeep wi...
Posted by Brit Abelew on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:56:00 PST

275+ songs I have written

One of the projectes I started this summer was organizing all the songs I had ever written...trying to find out exactly when I wrote them and how many total.  The historian in me has come out som...
Posted by Brit Abelew on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:28:00 PST

August update...and how to check out newer tunes of mine

Well, here it is August 21...with just over two weeks before school starts up again. This blog is actually much shorter than the one I wrote just before...but somehow got ERASED.  I have two wee...
Posted by Brit Abelew on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:56:00 PST

"Panty Line" explanation...

Well, I FINALLY am finished with my primary summer obligations, summer school and also a summer class I took at MATC, so I have most of August now to take care of things I want to take care before ano...
Posted by Brit Abelew on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:24:00 PST

Getting ready to get back to writing

Well...there have been some bumps in the road along the way...I didn't win any gigs at the WAMI show, and I was under the impression that they were expecting more of a production in my recording. ...
Posted by Brit Abelew on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:28:00 PST