As an indie artist in 2010, I should be able to manage my web presence, right? So why am I still a little baffled by syncing all these networking sites?! Here's my plan. I'm taking the website lo-fi. I'm making it simple and (hopefully) easy to navigate....and instead of posting a super-long note on the home page, I'm going to experiment with the blog. Let me know what you think~
I woke up this morning, the 26th of July, and made coffee. And then I made brownies. Which has colored the day, a little I think...I feel indulgent. A little lazy. Full! But after two weekends out with Kevin Costner & Modern West, a day at home dabbling in cyberspace is feeling pretty good. It has been so much fun playing the big country festivals with KCMW. Country Music Festivals are like big Nashville reunions. Musicians who live in your neighborhood (who you never see, for one reason or another...) end up sitting next to you in the catering tent eating potato salad. And I grew up on country music...the old kind. Lots of Willie Nelson and Emmy Lou. The genre has evolved, for sure, but there's still an acoustic element to it that I love. Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert, two of the headliners we've opened for this month, both do little acoustic mini-sets in their show. There's something so intimate and appealing to me about that. I love playing acoustic shows, and some of my favorite recordings are smaller acoustic versions of big-sounding records. Bruce Springsteen doing "Thunder Road" with just a guitar. Lily Allen covering Britney Spears' "Womanizer," turning a dance track into this bouncy hand drum thing. There's a really cool youtube video of Rihanna doing an acoustic version of Disturbia. And here's one of Keith Urban doing "Stupid Boy" acoustic....
It makes me want to record an acoustic record....of covers even...we'll see. In the meantime, I'm working on getting the new album in ready-to-hear form. It is NOT acoustic! Stay tuned...
I woke up this morning, the 26th of July, and made coffee. And then I made brownies. Which has colored the day, a little I think...I feel indulgent. A little lazy. Full! But after two weekends out with Kevin Costner & Modern West, a day at home dabbling in cyberspace is feeling pretty good. It has been so much fun playing the big country festivals with KCMW. Country Music Festivals are like big Nashville reunions. Musicians who live in your neighborhood (who you never see, for one reason or another...) end up sitting next to you in the catering tent eating potato salad. And I grew up on country music...the old kind. Lots of Willie Nelson and Emmy Lou. The genre has evolved, for sure, but there's still an acoustic element to it that I love. Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert, two of the headliners we've opened for this month, both do little acoustic mini-sets in their show. There's something so intimate and appealing to me about that. I love playing acoustic shows, and some of my favorite recordings are smaller acoustic versions of big-sounding records. Bruce Springsteen doing "Thunder Road" with just a guitar. Lily Allen covering Britney Spears' "Womanizer," turning a dance track into this bouncy hand drum thing. There's a really cool youtube video of Rihanna doing an acoustic version of Disturbia. And here's one of Keith Urban doing "Stupid Boy" acoustic....
It makes me want to record an acoustic record....of covers even...we'll see. In the meantime, I'm working on getting the new album in ready-to-hear form. It is NOT acoustic! Stay tuned...