Passing Thoughts of a Wannabe

Well to be honest these last few weeks have been a whirlwind of emotions.  My first nephew was born, my cousin got married, and a close friend of mine passed.  To say the least I have become a bit numb these last few weeks just to survive.  But after processing through all this excitement and deciding to quit playing music all together I have decided this…

I will start writing again!!!  In the normal nature that all song writers must.  I haven’t had a regiment of writing and being creative since before last years release of “id”.  So now it’s time.  After exhaling after my first “full length” release and playing it all around I feel that it’s time for me to start venturing into new areas.  For everyone that loves the music but mostly for myself.  

I am also excited to say that I have started to produce a new Chicago singer-songwriter Emily Henderson.  She has been writing great pop tunes for a while now.  In fact she has two released that way.  follow here and you can take a listen—————> https://www.facebook.com/emilyhendersonmusic

We have started production and hope to have her EP out late July.  

Stay tuned for more info on her releases and sneak peaks of new tunes!!!

Cheers

I don’t often talk about death and for the matter I don’t often think about it.  Mortality is not a thing that I like to dwell on especially mine own.  I usually leave those thoughts to the elderly who have lived long and full lives.  Even when they start to pontificate about how “crazy kids are these days”.  And the whole “i remember when…” soapbox.  But today is different.

I have experienced death.  Fortunately not a lot of it.  And only a few times has it been someone that was taken too soon.   My thoughts are always the same, as of much of the world when someone passes early.  They had such a bright future, I never got to say goodbye, or what seems to be the unanswerable  question of why?

The reason for writing this post might be clear to some and not at all to others.  I had a friend pass a few days ago.  A fellow musician that I got the chance to collaborate with on multiple occasions.  A man that was turbulent and caring all in one swoop.  A man that at the age of 33 already had some of the wisdom of an old man.  A man that never let his experience damper on his curiosity for life or music.  I will not echo the typical statements that most do on days like today.  I will say this and recount the memories of the last time we created together.

It was any typical night and we sat across from each other separated by two friends harmonizing beautifully together.  It might have been the venue or what it was like to play with him but there was a connection there between the four of us that was undeniable.  Something that was so pure, so true, so uninhibited.  This is rare to find between two people much less four different musicians.  My memory will finally be of this.  Here is a man who is right where he needs to be.  Behind a piano or guitar placing those notes in the perfect place.  Just enough to make the song push to that next level.  

I will miss you friend.  I will miss talking with you and creating with you.  i will miss you saying “just give me a second I have an idea”.  And I will miss watching you be in awe of a song and then turn it into magic that only you can do.

Be well and at peace with God.  May you find what you were looking for.  I look forward to creating again when we are before God worshiping with a wild abandon.  

Somber Thoughts

From A Wannabe 

As I continue on the search to find myself as an “artist” I am continually humbled by the multitude of great music current and past.  To the point that I always will know what a childhood curiosity looks like.

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With the ushering in of spring comes a song that, if the season had a soundtrack, would appear on it. A song traveling the Midwest landscape with no particular destination in mind except the grace of new growth’s vibrant color.  We are not yet in full bloom but are making are way towards it. And if hope springs eternal, the entire record will carry that same sentiment on its 4.10.2012 release. 

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