I am recording - albeit slowly - a second CD of 10 acoustic songs - higher quality than the first mostly due to some microphone upgrades.
I am trying to create a title for the CD and will give you a couple of idea but if you have an idea, based on content, let me know…

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I’ll be playing in the wine bar at Cave Creek Coffee Company (C4) on July 12, 2008 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm, or so.  Then, later that week, I fly to play house concert in Chicago, on July 19th.

C4’s wine bar is not really the best venue for me - as a songwriter.  Songwriters need to [...]

I began the process of arranging 10 new songs to record.  Tentatively titled, “Morning Girl” - based on a new song I’ve written.

Recently I added 2 new condenser microphones and the sound quality is greatly improved.  My gear at this moment is:

Toshiba Laptop - 100GB harddrive, 1 gig of memory;
Magix Music Studio Pro multitrack recording [...]

Andrea Stolpe, of the Berklee College of Music, writes a blog post, giving songwriters some tips for breaking out of familiar ruts or patterns of songwriting - focusing particularly on harmony or musical elements.
 

One I’ll add is simply taking something I am currently writing - where I have an established melody - perhaps a hook [...]

I’m stepping up efforts to marketing myself - just got a couple new paying gigs.  For me, a good gig is not a bar cover gig.  I am interested only in listening venues and in concentrating on my original songs.
I created a mini-brochure - both color and black & white - promoting me (yes, wonderful [...]