Category: Posts!
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Lost My Good Hat, Let Me Go Honey, Laugh More Get High
Delving into a collaboration project in progress, LMGH (Link, Marzano, Gaff, Hitt) is underway! For the sake of the entirely unaware, I’ll explain this in full. Tom Hitt, Frank Marzano, Jerry “Gaffer” Gaff and myself find ourselves in each other’s musical company more often than not. The four of us being songwriters in the Northwest…
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If the World Ends, Who’s Left to Say “I Told You So”?
Greetings! And welcome to 2012! I hope you’re as excited to be here as I am. It should be fun. Alright. Down to business. Resolutions. I checked back to last year’s new year post. Just as a refresher, it went a little something like this: “I resolve to make the best of all opportunities granted…
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I Just Like Unwrapping Things
It seems that I’ve met (or just happened to discuss with) a decent amount of people who are not particularly fond of this time of year. For a variety of reasons, whether it’s family obligations, undesirable shopping ventures, the over abundance of materialism, the weather, whatever it might be, a decent amount of the company…
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Working with What Works
More work going into the “Rough Cuts” project. Home recordings of two more songs have been completed. “All Together Now”, which from a months ago, is being taken off the shelf. The second is something new. I had the desire to write a cowboy song. Something gritty with a sort of “epic hero” story to…
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Someone Lit the Wick
Out of the wild blue, I find myself in an explosion of musical collaboration, which is really one of the best kinds of explosion to be in. My attempt to quell my writing frequency has failed. The songs keep coming, but with the opportunity of counter action, a few interesting groupings have begun forming. By my…
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And Oh, the Stories We Could Tell
A quick bout of reminiscing to the recent past. In the little time I’ve spent in Pittsburgh this has assuredly been one of my favorite moments. Getting to perform one of my songs with a choir of excellent musicians. A very big thank you to the musicians who partook in this performance, (from left to…
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One Small Step
Getting a chance to start involving myself in the Pittsburgh music scene has been excellent. I’ve already began meeting some very supportive people, from outstanding musicians introducing me to the scene to some amazing new fans. The whole experience got thinking about the process of expanding as a performer. What seems to be a common…
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Contradiction is Part of the Creative Process
To call myself out right away, yes, I am posting about a new song when my previous entry was about how I’ve been writing too many new songs, but its not what you think! I finished this song right before that last post, and then realized it was time to sit and get a better…
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I Never Was Very Good At Juggling
I’ve decided to address a concern in my current musical process. I’m afraid I’ve slid far from one end of the spectrum to the other. It’s important for me to find a productive medium, so I’ll start by addressing the “problem”. Through the summer, I spent most of my time with frequent shows and promoting…
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Innocent Ob$ervation
I often wonder what extent a song about a social observation has to go to be considered a political or protest song. In the rare cases in which my songs have any social commentary, it usually has very little to do with any agenda or direction I have. Most of the time it’s just that:…
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