September 30, 2007

Another song contest prize!

Just found out that "You Can Run", which I recorded in Nashville this past June, made the
Top 25 Finalist list out of 2000 songs entered in the first Music City Songwriting Competition.
There were some pretty heavy-hitter judges, so I'm thrilled!



Lots of changes.

I haven't been doing any music lately because since the spring I've been dealing with relocating an aging parent to a rest home after an emergency hip replacement. We're now dealing with selling the house we've shared for the past 10 years. It's been difficult.



This is what we're saying goodbye to.

Right now we've got every closet and storage space filled with boxes of stuff -- a couple of dozen of CDs, cassettes and albums alone. I'll probably never convert to life with an I-Pod because I have a really hard time with giving up the loss of texture that you get when you squash a piece of music into an MP3. How ironic that musicians and engineers spend years honing their talents, and months slaving away in the studio to make it sound as good as they can get it, only to have it basically shaved down to a sliver so someone can listen to it through a cheap set of ear buds. I just don't get it...

Anyway, lots of stuff to put into the storage facility, and we haven't even started on the kitchen or the furniture, all of which has to stay in place so that the house will look lived in for prospective buyers. I'm going to be spending the winter in a weird kind of limbo and doing a lot of meditating on George Carlin's brilliant rant about "stuff". :)

On the bright side, we get to look for a new house of our own, so that will be a whole new chapter.

In the meantime I lucked into a downtown sublet with a stunning view so I can live like a normal human being and avoid the considerable strain of constantly being in Martha Stewart zen neat-freak mode in case someone wants to pop by for a viewing.

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What I've been reading...

A simple twist of fate : Bob Dylan and the making of Blood on the Tracks / Andy Gill & Kevin Odegard
George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and me / Pattie Boyd (er, Harrison... um, Clapton)

(Looking forward to the new William Gibson)

Listening to:
I had to pick the CDs that would fit in my little travelling case, so I guess this constitutes a sort of "Desert Island Essentials" collection:

Alan Rhody: Journey
Carole King: Tapestry
Jerry Jeff Walker: Ultimate Collection
Del McCoury Band: It's Just The Night
Kevin Fox: Come Alive
Nickel Creek: Nickel Creek
Martina McBride: Wild Angels
Average White Band: Average White Band
UB40: Signing Off
Corinne Bailey Rae: Corinne Bailey Rae
Bruce Cockburn: The Charity of the Night +
Nothing But a Burning Light
Atlantic Soul Classics
Shawn Colvin: A Few Small Repairs
Laurie Lewis + Tom Rozum: The Oak and the Laurel
Joni Mitchell: Hejira + Turbulent Indigo
Ricki Lee Jones : Pirates
Kool + The Gang: The Millenium Collection
Sting: Brand New Day
Bob Dylan : Blood on the Tracks
Men at Work: Business as Usual
The Missing Liberty Tapes: Paul Brady
The Grateful Dead: Workingman's Dead
George Harrison: Brainwashed

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