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Archive for the ‘inspiration’ Category
It’s Record Store Day!
20, Apr 2013My desert island disc list. I almost feel the same way about Record Store Day as I do about Valentine’s Day…why do we need a special day to do something we should do all year round? But I get it, it’s important to mark the institutions and we as a society certainly love calendar excuses [...]
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Daydream Often
7, Apr 2013Here’s a link to an article called “Writing advice from writers handwritten on writers’ hands.“ This title makes my head split open, but the premise is cool. I decided to do my own. I’m not sure if it was because I grew up a semi-only child (I was the only one at home because my [...]
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SXSW 2013 Music
18, Mar 2013Oh yeah, it’s a music festival too! To be honest, I had such a great time attending the conference part of SXSW that the live shows were lower on my list this year. Going to the panels was an 8 – 6 job, and commuting from San Marcos added some extra time this year. It [...]
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Go See Live Music
19, Feb 2013I made a couple of jaunts to see some great people this week, reminding me that every songwriter and musician needs to fill the well with new music and live shows. Keeps us on our toes. I went up to Dallas to see some friends and to see Tift Merritt live. Tift has been in [...]
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Top 11 of 2012
27, Dec 2012Since we made it through the fake apocalypse, I figure it’s safe to go ahead and make my list with the intention that you all are still around to read it. So many of my favorites put out albums this year…most people on my “must buy on first day of release” list made something new. [...]
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Covered.
4, Dec 2012So every songwriter…I take that back…MOST songwriters want to be covered. It means another musician found your material moving enough to want to sing it themselves and internalize it for 3-5 minutes a night. I think it’s a huge thing. To my utmost surprise, Susan Gibson and Elizabeth Wills covered an unrecorded song of mine [...]
- In: inspiration|sg|songwriting
On Meeting Hillary Clinton (In A Dream)
13, Oct 2012All right, y’all. I’m blogging about this because I NEVER remember my dreams. For all I know I’m a freak of nature who doesn’t dream…though I know we all do, I just hardly ever remember them except for maybe twice a year when they’re super traumatic and I’m being chased by an axe wielding Teddy [...]
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On Meeting Heroes
3, Oct 2012When I was young…maybe 10 or 11, my cousins and I went to see a pretty famous children’s book author read and sign. Actually, I was so young and so excited about an autograph, I don’t remember if she read. I imagine she did. I am not going to name her because it’s not important. [...]
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The Office
18, Jul 2012One of the things I’ve been working on is setting up an office space. My awesome roomie Katie is the queen of decorating, and she encouraged me to co-opt the dining room for an office space so that I could in fact sleep in one room and work in another. It’s been awesome. The first [...]
Ashes+Roses
21, Jun 2012The new Mary Chapin Carpenter album came out last week and I’ve settled into its brilliance as with all her other albums. I have always gone to a record store on release day to get a real live copy, though I wonder how many more years that tradition will be able to continue, since apparently [...]
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