I’m a musician. In particular, my primary interest is in creating original music. And when I make music, I want it to touch other people like some of my favorite music did to me. So I started analyzing music that spoke to me, to learn what made it so …
Songwriting is a funny thing. You’d think that you sit down and write music that reflects how the writer is feeling at the moment. And that is what happens some of the times. But other times depending on where the fingers fall on the fretboard, music pops out totally different …
A lot of songwriters have pet “theme” to their writing. Jon Bon Jovi, for example, writes about struggles of common folks. He is a rich rock star, so is he not authentic when he sings about people living paycheck to paycheck? I believe he is. He may now be a …
What you see in the picture are a few of my favorite things. My acoustic guitars on which I write songs. My bed. And the western sun shining on them. Minnesota is a cold place, so sunshine is precious. And I like it that way. The smaller guitar is my …
“If I Miss the Deadline” is a song I released earlier this year (May 2016). For the past 6 months its only public exposure was on my SoundCloud, but yesterday I released a slightly remixed version on YouTube. YouTube doesn’t allow you to swap a posted video, so putting anything …