Everyone check out the VERY COOL cover story that Louisville Music News is featuring!! Kevin Gibson did a wonderful job writing the story, and the photos are fabulous as well. GREAT READ!!! Paper copies are out everywhere as well. Your Louisville music/coffee/book shop should have them. Enjoy!
You can see it online here:
http://www.louisvillemusicnews.net/webmanager/index.php?WEB_CAT_ID=50&storyid=6389
I posted the following as a response to a question asked by a local college student on success in music…here is the question followed by my response:
Question: This is going to aid toward my attempt at an academic research paper about local music. If you have the time, could you please explain what you think needs to be done to become ’successful’? When will you feel you have succeeded as a musician? I believe the “local” possesses a credibility that mainstream can’t reach. What are your thoughts about this?
Answer: I think it depends on how you define “success”. Some think success is an arena tour; some think it’s having a record, some think it’s being rich, some think it’s getting airplay. For me, it would to be able to live comfortably (not ecxessively) doing what I love without having to kill myself to make a music career AND pay the bills. I think that’s getting harder and harder for people to do these days. The only way to really make it to my definition of success is to push, and keep pushing. To have a good attitude and work hard. To appreciate your fans/bandmates/bookers/ and everyone else that helps us do what we do. People don’t realize how much hard work it takes to be taken seriously. And time. Amanda and I have been pushing real hard for going on two years now. Slowly and surely we see things happening. Now, we just have to keep it going. On the flip side…nothing is as satisfying as seeing that your song has really touched someone (especially when you’re in the midst of feeling completely unappreciated); seeing that they care about and have taken in the lyrics; and let the melody speak to them. My two cents.
Hi everyone! Welcome to installment numero uno of the B-L-O-G! WELCOME! Please wipe your feet of the snow and slush and come on it. Make yourselves comfy.
The past year has been an absolute whirlwind of things happening, musically. Last December I would have never thought that I would be releasing a solo record this March. At the time, I had just finished with helping Amanda get her CD out there, and was tinkering with the idea of a home studio, etc. The option of putting together a solo studio record came about very suddenly and unexpectedly (and it was welcomed with open arms I might add). Thanks to Rob Gable and Joe Brown, an evening of jamming turned into what would be this journey. Since January of last year…the band and I have worked very hard to put together an album of songs, some new…some old…some seem new but were old…some seem old but were new. I threw a nice new batch of tunes I had written at the band…we threw them in a blender of instruments and voices, and I’m so happy with what came out the other end.
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