On this day, I declare myself competent to play in front of people. Just tried out a new open mic. Aside from hating how I sounded through the PA, I’m very happy with my performance. Again, I played tested and well-practiced songs, and again, I nailed ‘em. I promise I’ll try to get some live [...]

Hey hey, the slog is becoming less sloggy, and the end is in sight. Word. So now I have to start thinking about how to release it. I’ve been toying with the idea of posting mp3s of the album on Actdead and encouraging people to get the actual CD by putting all sorts of extra [...]

Ask me nice, and I’ll flash you.

Wow, if I consistently played like I did tonight at Sweet Rockin’ Coffee, I would book the world tour immediately. It felt awesome, and it was no coincidence I think that I played songs I’d played live before and had PRACTICED. Like, A LOT. On a related note, here’s a demo of the canned band [...]

So I think the canned band thing went pretty well. Course I can’t be sure. I’ll need to do it again with an honest friend in the audience. However, the set as a whole didn’t feel so great. I’ve been showing off to myself by playing a completely different set every performance, and I think [...]

I think I may do a little experiment tonight if I get a slot at my local open stage. While I feel pretty good about performing songs with just me and a guitar, I think a full-length set of that kind of thing would suffer from saminess. So perhaps the solution (short of recruiting a [...]

Written by Hank Williams

Maybe it’s not trouble. But my head is kind of divided between forging ahead with my album tracks (songs that’ve been around for 5+ months and I’m a little weary of) and spur of the moment, quick (and still fresh) projects. The happy thing is that regardless of which side is languishing, I’ve been consistently [...]