Raising support for Album III
I’m raising support for my third album. In return for your donation, I can offer these gifts:
1. Donate $5 or more
- I’ll send you a personal thank-you in the mail.
2. Donate $10 or more
- I’ll send you the original demo of Melody and your name will go in the album liner credits. (plus a personal thank-you).
* Demos consist of me — just guitar and vocal, around the time when I wrote the song.
3. Donate $25 or more
- I’ll send you the original demo of Small Town and a recording of the first time I ever played it live (plus 1 and 2).
4. Donate $50 or more
- I’ll send you all the demos to the album “My Whole Life” and two songs that didn’t make the album ( plus all the above).
5. Donate $75 or more
- I’ll send you the demos for the album “Songs from a Small Town” and a recording of a live show (plus all the above).
6. Donate $100 or more
- I’ll send you three lullabies I recorded for my nephews, a version of Amazing Grace, and my three albums/CDs signed and personalized. (plus all the above)
7. Donate $500 or more
- I’ll send you every recorded song idea I have, your choice of one I should finish and put on the next album, and a personal video thank-you (plus all the above).
8. Donate $1000 + travel
- I’ll perform a living room show anywhere in the world (plus all the above).
9. Donate ???
- Tell me your idea and how much you think the donation should be.
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Visiting Nashville
I’ve been writing. Some of it’s for Aaron Espe stuff, whatever that means. Some of it’s for a project (do I dare say band?) I’ve started with Mike Ayars — longtime friend, great songwriter/guitarist/you-name-it-ist. If he sounds familiar, it might be because he was a member of (now disbanded) Meese. We’ve discovered that he and I work really well together. More on the release of that music later. But keep us in the back of your mind.
As for the Aaron Espe stuff. I’ve got lots of new material. Yes, I was putting out a song at a time, (sorry there were only two) but I’m realizing I prefer releasing full-length albums. They feel more like a well-rounded meal, when singles just seem like a chocolate bar. That said, I’m trying to figure out a way to make this new album happen. I’ll keep you posted…
Next show:
Apr 29 / 7pm / Everyday Joe’s in Fort Collins, CO
With Reed Foehl (really great songwriter)
$8/adv $10/door
Duluth Budgeteer
For this blog, I’m directing you to a link. It’s Matt Perrine’s (Duluth Budgeteer) review of “Songs from a Small Town.” He was kind enough to massage my ego a bit. Feel free to write your own brief review in a comment. Please use big words that I have to look up.
Here is the article.
About My Guitar
Some have asked me what kind of guitar I used on my latest CD. The answer is, the bulk of the work was recorded using my very first guitar. I bought it when I was fifteen from Mrs. Glassman, my Phy. Ed. teacher. She was having a Saturday garage sale and said twenty dollars was a reasonable price because the guitar had been in the family a long time. Since she was a kid. I thought twenty was steep. The guitar said “Silvertone” on the headstock, but that was before I painted it completely in red, blue, and yellow stripes. Two days later, I realized the guitar looked like a clown, and so I took a putty knife to it and scraped for several hours. I brought it to my sister Ingrid. She was the artist in our family and she had ideas. She painted it completely black with four small white stars near the bottom-right. I thought she improved it greatly, besides the stars, so I used a magic-marker to cover them. She wasn’t overly offended. The guitar remained like that for several years, even through the recording of the last CD. Only recently did it change when I painted it green and gave it to my wife as a wedding gift. She affectionately keeps it in storage. But perhaps she would sell it to you for twenty dollars.
