These days I prefer to write and record at home in Kauai during the Fall and Winter months and spend Spring and Summer in Oregon. I have lately been exploring the possibility of writing and recording as many different styles of music that are in my reach. What makes Jazz, Jazz? What gives Blue Grass or Reggae their unique sound? So I will start with sharing "Kekaha" a Reggae song and perhaps something more Oregonian like "Come What May."
Music is an art form to me. It gives me a way to express something I feel, an idea, a story. It can relate to my life or it can be a fantasy. Something melancholic, or something funny, something complicated, something very simple. My music is a reflection of me at any given time.
I’m living my music dream. I write and create music that I love. Of course it’s nice to have others listen and react positively but, it is not the main objective. I’ve worked very hard to find my music and we are very happy together.
The world is a perfect imperfection. I’m not sure what I could change without some consequence. There is life and there is death, so comes celebration and mourning. Perhaps if I could change the world I would start with spreading acceptance of that. Enjoy the challenge of life and all its imperfections.
“Bad Moon Rising” is the first time, with the first band, that made a sound that was worth smiling about.
First, my grandfather, then everybody else.
I wish I knew! I would go there often.
It’s not so much a message I want to send as it is a story I want to tell, a story that makes you feel something. A smile, a tear.... one of my songs was described as “sinister,” that made me smile.
I love it at the time, it’s the next day after luging all the equipment back and forth that my body puts up a fuss.
I have never pursued a career in music, I just wanted to play the guitar so I may not be the best person to ask. I happy to be sharing my music this way with my fellow musicians.
You guys are the bomb! It’s like you force us to talk to each other and we find out we like each other.
Playing music is like the puzzle that never ends. I have learned to enjoy that as time goes by.
I’m a bit isolated where I live but I try to make it to small venues in Kauai and in Oregon there is a friend I like to help out by playing at least once a year in her restaurant.
Drooble looks like a good start. Other then that it’s not my area of expertise.
I met this young guy on a plane From Dallas to Portland Oregon named Nathen Lee Jackson who was there to promote his new album. I purchased it from iTunes and was impressed with him all around.