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?)”
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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)”
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”