Asheville-bound this weekend to add four more tunes to the Girl with Slingshot album. On the set list: Damn Strange Thing, Count to Eight, Butterflies or Whiskey, and Girl with Slingshot.
Proud to introduce to two more Buster Dilly players to the mix. Returning Buster Dillys are bassist Andrew Lazare and organist Dave McCracken from the St. Patty’s Day show.
Greg Griffith, producer. He’s celebrating a big success this year with the recent release of Amy Ray’s new record. The former Indigo Girls front woman set out to create a distinctive record with a new sound and picked Greg for the year-long job. He’s a junkie for pure music sounds played on old instruments in fresh new ways. Greg has also produced a number of records for far more impressive artists than myself. And I’m not doing the self-deprecated thing when I say that. I’m just saying, the boy’s got talent. Bassist Andrew Lazare calls him Russell Crowe for his beautiful mind, minus the schizophrenia, of course.
Tim Haisman, percussion. Tim has a “been there, done that, don’t need to brag about it” countenance about him. It’s like he’s rocked enough concert halls and tore up enough roads to truly appreciate the quiet. Maybe you could also attribute that air about him to the cool, serene surroundings of his country-home studio just outside of Greensboro. Evidence of his rock and roll days touring with Leadfoot, a successful southern group founded by ex-metal band members “Corrosion of Conformity” is heard only humble mentions–when pressed. These days, Tim teaches percussion 2112 Rock School, is likely the finest percussion teacher you could find for his real life music experience and intricate understanding of rhythm. In rehearsal the last three weeks, I watched in awe as Greg whittled out rhythms from Tim’s drum selections as the two collaborated and connected. Tim is simply one of those who “feels” and speaks music like a real pro.
“It’s interesting to put those words together, ’social capitalist.’ It is hard, sometimes it’s really frustrating because you want to get growth, you want to make it happen, and you’re like, ‘How do I double the size of the community?’ …Well, you can’t think of it that way. It’s more often, ‘How do I do what’s right for the community?’ And every time I’ve taken that turn it just continues to grow, and nurture, and be organic, and often pay off in unexpected ways.”
Should have known the blogosphere is infinite enough to claim a little corner of the universe for myself.
I scoped it out this morning on Trendpedia, a web site that lets you compare two or three topics, and see which trend or topic people are talking about the most online. Then, the site puts all that data into easily readable charts and pie graphics.
In the interest of Tonya’s pilates blog (still in beta) I wondered whether people blog more about pilates or yoga. Trendpedia lets you compare up to three topics, so I threw in Muscle Activation Technique, too, a muscle recovery program Tonya provides. Among these three topics, far fewer people blog about pilates than yoga. MAT doesn’t even compare.
I’m going to try out a few other combinations, but the information shows me how little people are talking about pilates online, and how Tonya has an opportunity to be first on the blogosphere to write more about pilates and MAT.
Trendpedia Via Trend Central The article also included Searchme, a more visually pleasing way of googling yourself, and iGizmo, which I’m still trying to figure out.
Heading to Shakori Hills tomorrow for an open songwriter’s contest (all you have to do is show up a half hour before the 11 contest) and I want a wagon to lug my amp across the festival grounds.
Anyone know where I can find an all terrain ride like this? When I do an online search, it mostly returns “shipping only results.”
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That’s one cheap, unlickable envelope. It took three pieces of scotch tape to close that thing up.
Addressed and stamped twice because stamp prices change faster than gas prices these days. What’s it up to, now, like $5 a stamp? Licked, taped, and stamped in doubles and triples because I want to make sure this letter gets all the way up there to Echo Mountain Recorders in Asheville.
This little envelope with enclosed check and hand-written letter reserves a studio spot in early May at Echo Mountain for Molly McGinn & the Buster Dillys. The Asheville-based studio, built inside an old church, is yet another one of North Carolina’s best kept secrets. For its quality technology and archive of ancient instruments that no software or plug-in could ever duplicate, an impressive list of musicians have made Echo mountain a short-term home for recording proejcts.
Among the list of musicians who have fiddled with the studio’s antique instruments and amps:
“We are who we represent ourselves to be online, so stop concentrating on tight demo targeting and start using who your persona is from an attitudinal level, an interest level, and reach consumers that way.”
Sean X Cummings on why MySpace isn’t better or worse than Facebook.
