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Hi Jaime, Noah is friends with me, not the other way around! Joking, of course. I met Noah a month before his nineteenth birthday—before he could rock such a great beard. (Still, he had pretty good stubble.) It was December of 2015. He came to Nashville to work on songs for his debut album. My […]
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Hi Mark, Great question. Honestly, after reading your email, I searched “food” in my iPhone photos because only one restaurant immediately came to mind—and I thought, Really? That’s all I can think of? I’ll get to that restaurant in a second. But I also realized that during this trip, I haven’t ordered much for myself.
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That’s what I was doing when I overheard two guys talking in the men’s bathroom in my dorm hall. Aerospace students, dressed smartly with combed hair. “This is huge,” one of them said. I had just turned 20 at the University of North Dakota. After hearing them talk—about what I still wasn’t sure—I walked to
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Right after Jillian and I wrote it. I love her harmonies. This is what we call in “the biz” a worktape: And here’s the released demo so you can A/B it. Next up would be a “studio version” but I decided I liked the raw quality of the demo, which is why there’s no studio
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If you could ask me only one question about my life as a singer-songwriter, what would it be? I bring it up because I’m outlining potential chapters for the book, And the Crowd Goes Mild: Confessions of an Extremely Moderately Successful Singer-Songwriter. As always, the danger in writing a memoir is navel gazing. Even the
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I’ve listened to some great first albums from artists who put their hearts, time, energy, money––high stakes––on the line. But many of those artists aren’t around anymore. Did they die? Yes. Inside, after not getting the response they had hoped for. I know because I’ve been there. It’s depressing. And humiliating. I used to begin
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