“The 77 writers from all over North America who voted in the 10th annual Country Music Critics Poll named [Brad] Paisley Artist of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year and cited his latest release, American Saturday Night, as the year’s second best album.” – Geoffrey Himes in Nashville Scene. Well, dang. I guess [...]
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It’s been a while since my last post, but I finally found some time now that I’ve recovered from the holiday mania, and found some motivating inspiration in the new Lady Antebellum single, “American Honey.” One the whole, I’d rate the song at about a 7 out of 10, but if I could, I’d give [...]
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I heard Rosanne Cash’s “Seven Year Ache” on the radio the other day, and it killed me how good it was. Rosanne wrote the song, and Rodney Crowell produced it[1] (who I hope to meet at the 2010 Songwriter’s Symposium in Austin next month). It’s just a phenomenal song that holds up just as well [...]
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All hazy with tryptophan from Thanksgiving dinner, I got the notion to make a holiday EP, so I spent some of my break in my home office/mini-studio tinkering in GarageBand. As building entire tracks takes a long time, I’m now thinking that a whole EP before Christmas might be a little ambitious, but maybe I [...]
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It’s been a little while since my last post, but don’t give up on me—I’ve just been really busy. The Georgian Company played Austin’s 1st Oktoberfest last Saturday, which was a lot of fun and I think we sounded pretty good, too. Afterwards (it was a 9pm show) we went over to Ginny’s Little Longhorn [...]
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