Blues, Roots, Rawk
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Hey folks, Here's another installment of the song-a-week-challenge for you. This week's tune is called "I am The Storm". I've been wanting to write this tune since Memphis. I met a fellow there in my venue during the blues challenge....he and I had quite a nice chat. Lots in common musically. A few …
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Hey all, well after missing two weeks on this challenge I'm back in the saddle. Before I get into my description of this weeks number I want to encourage you to get over to Tom Savage's interweb space and check his latest offering. I was in Kingston playing and Tom and I finally got to meet in …
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Hey y'all Man this challenge is hard to do on the road. Shit! I drove from NB to Toronto arriving late afternoon. Checked into my hotel, checked my messages and then wrote and recorded this tune. It is by far the fastest and sloppiest I've posted a tune from zero to website. So, that down side is, …
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Hey folks Whew! Got er done! by late this afternoon I was starting to think I wouldn't have time to write and record a tune for today but I managed to pull it out of the hat! This is another blues. I think Clarksdale is still on my skin so you may get a few more blues tunes yet before I move on. …
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Hi y'all so I missed last week. Hey thats how it goes. I WAS is Memphis the week before, after all, so I was sorta distracted : ) I didn't wanna miss this week though and I thought I was going too but I sat down tonight to hash out and idea that hit me on the porch of the Robert Clay Shack …
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Hi everyone Wow. What a week. I had an incredible time in Memphis. Heard so much great music. I played into the semi-finals and then was beat out but I didn't feel bad for a second. I met so many wonderful people here and made loads of good contacts. I was in the same venue as one of my fav …