Happy Monday! And happy April!
I'm playing a show tonight at Berlin at 7:30pm (get tix here)and I'm “nervcited” to be on stage again. Time just passes and somehow way too much of it has passed since I've played out.
Read MoreNew Show April 1st
/Seeing as how I have a tendency to write long posts, I figured today I'd hit you with a short one just to inform you of a couple goings on:
Read MoreI'm alright with a slow burn
/What is up?
Something that is up for me after going deeper into this week's "Songs I wish I wrote" episode is this idea of why too much specificity in songs is not always a good thing.
And yet it’s not necessarily true in life.
Read MoreAre you ready for it?
/Keeping with the TS edition of "songs I wish I wrote" comes a song that has only recently grown on me.
For this reason, I don't have "...ready for it?" on my "main album" of top TS songs, but rather on my 3am version.
Read MoreLove her or hate her, she's a songwriting queen 👑
/I’m reluctant to make any statements about the future of “songs I wish I wrote” because I am in the fun, creative and “ride the wave” mode. But, I can say with some certainty that this artist is going to make a regular appearance and may even have a spin-off series.
Read MoreSongs I wish I wrote: LP's "Shaken"
/Super excited for another day, another song with the "songs I wish I wrote" series.
The song I talk about today is by an artist that many people might not be aware of, by the name of LP. I first heard her music while traveling in Italy and was moved by what I heard.
Read MoreBaby, you're a .....
/Happy Monday!
Is that even a thing? 🤷🏻♀️ Well, It is today!
Here it is. The first video of my series that I'm super excited to create and to share. It's called "Songs I wish I wrote" and it's about....you guessed it....songs I wish I wrote.
Read MoreMy New Passion Project
/What is up?? I am doing A OK, if I do say so myself. Ups and downs of course, as it goes in life but generally I have an overwhelming sense of gratitude for just being alive and being able to invest time, money and energy into something I feel deeply passionate about.
In fact, I've been working on a passion project that I want to tell you about. Turns out I get a lot done when I'm not on social media (yep, I've been off for about 4 months now).
Read More2 years ago to the day
/In November 2020, a dear friend of mine, Curtis Bryant, passed to the other side. Everyone who knew him called him CB. I called him Ceebs. And he called himself the Mayor of Divisadero; a street in San Francisco that ran through the neighborhood we lived in. He lived in that neighborhood, on Grove St., for 47 years.
Read MoreFrom 0 to "oooooooh"- The Evolution of a Background vocal
/A couple weeks ago, I went to record a song I wrote with my co-writers, Syd Caldera, and Diana Taub with our producer Pat Van Dyke in New Jersey.
It’s a song called “The Funk”.
When it came time to do the background vocals, both Syd and I had some ideas so we let the track play while we did a scratch take to see what worked.
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