This was one of my favorite tunes from February Album Writing Month (fawm.org) in 2012. It’s a zen blues singalong tune. It all started with the first lyric: “I ain’t got no time”, which was very true, and I was feeling that in a big way. That one phrase led to another, and before I […]
This was one of my favorite tunes from February Album Writing Month (fawm.org) in 2012. OK, so I didn’t actually write this tune, but I gave it a unique spin, and added a verse or two.
This was one of my favorite tunes from February Album Writing Month (fawm.org) in 2012. The FAWM community keeps February interesting by issuing challenges and playing various songwriting games. The challenge that inspired this one was to write a song using only one note. I chose to approach this as a meditative exercise, just to […]
This was one of my favorite tunes from February Album Writing Month (fawm.org) in 2012. There aren’t many people in the United States for whom Seattle is South, but I’m one! I thought of the opening line for this tune while driving south to Seattle from my home in Bellingham. I got stuck in I-5 […]
This was one of my favorite tunes from February Album Writing Month (fawm.org) in 2012. This was inspired by a FAWM challenge: Write a song about the weather. I decided to sample clips from Cliff Mass (cliffmass.blogspot.com), whose forecasts were —at that time— featured on KPLU (“NPR and all that jazz”) in Seattle. Cliff’s forecasts […]