I enjoyed writing this song. It is essentially one day of conversations put to music. Every word and every image from that day made it into the song. The imagery of clouds dancing and fish flying is from a pond where I stopped for lunch. Rosaline is a reference to a character from Romeo andContinue reading ““My Rosaline””
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First Gig (How did I get here?)
On April 24th, 2025, a band I put together played their first gig. This was a project that was about three years in the making. I’m going to outline how this came about, what went well, and what mistakes were made along the way. Back in 2022, I started writing songs and playing guitar inContinue reading “First Gig (How did I get here?)”
“The Road Less Traveled”
I’m about finished writing a new song, and this one is interesting…to me anyway. So, I thought I’d write a little bit about the process. The Road Less Traveled is what I might call a waiting-for-tango song. I have a book of micro-stories called Café Chronicles that I published a few years ago, and althoughContinue reading ““The Road Less Traveled””
February Album Writing Month (FAWM)
It’s that time of year when musicians from around the world gather virtually and try to write an album’s worth of songs in 28 days. Yes, FAWM is where you try to write 14 songs in the shortest month of the year. Last year was the first time I came across FAWM, and as IContinue reading “February Album Writing Month (FAWM)”
I Don’t Want to Die
This post may go off in a rather unintended direction. Hold on tight. It also made me somewhat uncomfortable in its self-indulgence, but maybe it was what I needed to write tonight. Recently, I started rewatching The Good Place, created by Michael Schur. It’s my kitchen show. I have a computer in the kitchen thatContinue reading “I Don’t Want to Die”
Perfection
I read a story yesterday about a guy. Now, for so many reasons, I won’t repeat the story word for word, but I will get the gist of the story, which led, not to a revelation for me, although maybe it should. It was a story about a guy, as I mentioned, who decided toContinue reading “Perfection”
A Look at “This is a Love Song”
A few years ago, I fell in love. So, with intention, I sat down to write a love song. I was in Logan Square in Chicago, so I looked for an inspirational place to write a love song. I came across a bar that had an indoor waterfall and was described as quirky. I thoughtContinue reading “A Look at “This is a Love Song””
Want Success? Study the Arts.
From my understanding of the world, the one thing that really separates humans from everything else on our planet is our desire for art in all its forms. Simply, we need the arts. We can’t go a day without some sort of beauty in our lives. I might even argue that we would cease toContinue reading “Want Success? Study the Arts.”
It’s You I Miss
I have competing stories about when I began to play guitar and write music. The first story is that I was living in Colombia back in the nineties, had just broken up with the woman who flew my hair to Cuba to put a curse on me, bought a guitar, and wrote my first song.Continue reading “It’s You I Miss”
On Process: Songwriting Edition
For me, writing songs is the same process I used for writing the Café Chronicles or Waiting for Tango short stories. And since I’m sitting at Bourgeois Pig Café in Chicago and there is 20s music playing, I thought I’d talk about that process. When I write a short story in the style of theContinue reading “On Process: Songwriting Edition”
Henry James Morello 