Usually, just me. sometimes I use my good musician friends on different tracks, such as Bobby on guitar on knock'in on heavens door and Dave on violin. and my engineer of my albumn to play guitar on the rest of my c.d.
Influences
van morrison, stevie winwood, michael franks, tommy dean, deep purple, santana, eric clapton, jimi hendrix, and thousands more!!
In early October I wrote one of my latest songs called, “Wall Street Bail Out Blues.” Within four days of writing it, a video crew captured me playing it on the street at Seattle’s Pike Place Market and posted their video on YouTube. That video has now reached the attention of a writer for The Wall Street Journal who is writing an article about those who have written songs about our tough economic times. His article will be published this week and I’m excited to read it.
Who knows where this might lead? Call me an optimist but I have a feeling that this could mean that a few more seconds of that elusive fifteen minutes of fame might be coming my way.
It ain’t the cover of the Rolling Stone but it’s not every day that a writer from a major worldwide news outlet seeks me out to talk to me about my songwriting. That’s a huge validation of my efforts at staying true to my vision. I must be doing something right.
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