Category: Posts!
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Five Seat Concert Hall
Earlier this month, Strangers and Liars released our debut album. “Five Seat Concert Hall” is officially for sale! The album consists of 10 tracks of all original music, written and performed by Strangers and Liars (myself, Justin Anderson, Russ Straub, and Tom Hitt). I’d like to thank everybody who’s supported us in the band thus…
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Stand Back! We’re Professionals.
Strangers and Liars drummer Tom Hitt put together this video a few weeks back. The track is She Ain’t Talkin’ from our new album, Five Seat Concert Hall, written by our guitarist Justin Anderson. I get a kick every time I watch this video.
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New Year, New Album
In the dwindling hours of the year, I come to announce the fruit of a great portion of our 2012 labors: Strangers and Liars will soon have completed our first album! “Five Seat Concert Hall” is coming to you soon! A project that started many months ago, the album is on the doorstep of completion…
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Stepping Down
In case you haven’t guessed from the absence of diligence towards keeping these posts up to date, things have been quite busy in the past few months. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it has had consequences. Certain focuses have started to slip and everything seems to be stretched a little to thin. I myself have been surprised with…
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A Nice Round Number
I finished my 70th song earlier this week. I’m not sure why it’s struck me as it has, as 50th or 100th, or even 75th seem to be more commonly acknowledged milestones in counting. But any increment of 10 tends to hold weight, and I happened to be feeling reflective as I reached 70. And…
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The Darker Side of Writing?
A running half-joke I’ve often mentioned as a songwriter is bringing up the benefit of being in depressing or dramatic situations: it gives us something to write about. It’s a funny contradiction to realize that some of the greats have written their best at their worst, but there certainly seems to be some truth to…
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An Update Overdue
Being absolutely wrecked (in mostly all the right ways) by the busyness of the summer, this site has been deplorably unattended to. Deplorably, I say! So as we dive into fall, I’d like to take a moment to bring things up to speed for the sake of the steadfast viewers of this site (I know…
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Success of the Songwriter Sunset
Tonight is the final night of The Songwriter Sunset, the weekly event I’ve hosted over the past 3 months. For the past 12 or so Thursday evenings, two songwriters have been invited out to share originals music with the audience and whichever songwriter they share the stage with. The results have been phenomenal. Tonight, for…
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Two New Players, Two Less Strings
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to learn a secondary instrument. I’ve never been much for jamming, as the rhythm guitar/lead singer type has very little he can do other than be the center of attention. And while I enjoy being the center of attention quite often (find me a singer…
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Short Notice Show
Accepting an invite from some dear musical friends, Strangers and Liars will be heading down to Clarion, PA this Saturday (August 4th) to Toby Hill Bar and Grill, where we will be opening Broke Boland and the Dirty Pickles! Strangers and Liars is very excited to be broadening our horizons, venturing from Northwest Pennsylvania all…
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