a year of songs: number 24
- Thursday, June 11th: A friend recently had a heart "event" and
subsequent procedures. He's a guy who does it all and makes it look easy.
I spoke with his wife this week and they know it's time for him to reorganize
some things in his life now. A brush with mortality is a form of shock treatment.
Here's Number 24, "Balance".
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- Songs 01 - 10
- (January 1st - March 5th)
- Songs 11-20
- (March 12th - May 14th)
- Songs 21-23
- (May 21st - June 4th)
Songs released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
- Soundtrack to "Paving the Way" available now
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the 52 song project
Hear the "Radio Heartland" interview about "52 Songs" with Dale Connelly of Minnesota Public Radio.
Summer means I'm off to remote areas where I'll be singing at camps. Families gather and I provide some music. I also get to play guitar with the college aged staffs, and I'll find new ideas and new music from listening to them. Being a solo artist brings a certain amount of isolation, and I know how important it is to open up to other's ideas about the music they love. These young people are my teachers, just as the elderly are my teachers when I sing with them. "52 Songs" will be creating conversation this summer. It's already begun...
Geek-ish Notes: I've been asked to explain my setup a little more. I use Logic 8.0 as my software on a 2.5 y/o MacBook Pro and a PreSonus FirePod that has 8 mic/direct inputs. I have to work around some latency problems when I do overdubs, and I'm starting to run into processor challenges. I crash when I go crazy with lots of tracks. I remember to save my work constantly. I backup to 2 different hard drives as well. Thank goodness for that.
