Track It Up!
I think it was all the way back in April when I sent Aselin and Larry a trio of songs to learn for possible recording down the road. The date we’d set to get together was this past Wednesday. Actually, I thought we were just getting together to tighten up the songs, not to record [...]
Gig Preview Plus One
Don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I have two upcoming shows! My persistence has paid off, and I hope it continues to. Combined with the recording I’m doing with Larry and Aselin this Wednesday, I now have three reasons to rehearse. So I am, and all of the fun and challenge and fingertip-pain attendant on [...]
In Front of Postscript
Just wanted to add to yesterday’s…piece…that I also want to get gigging again for the fear-facing, self-challenging, triumph-over-death experience that playing a show can bring. To feel, in short, a sense of achievement. An obvious motivation, maybe, but one that didn’t really thread its way into the aforementioned long-gestating performance-anxiety kvetch. To that end, there [...]
In Front of Part Two
I see now that my original sweep of gig-grubbing emails was sent the first week of MAY. Time flies, yes? I received a sort of form rejection from one place, a kind word unaccompanied by a firm offer from another, and no reply at all from the other three places. I know that I’m supposed [...]
New Song: “Wallace’s Dogs”
Wallace’s Dogs I have maybe too much to say about this song, since it’s kind of a trifle, and it doesn’t even have words. But ephemera: that’s what blogs are for, yes? First, the music: “Wallace’s Dogs” represents the longest gestation period I’ve ever had between coming up with a riff and finally actually recording [...]
