I teach songwriting classes but this list isn’t meant to be instructional. There are a bunch of different reasons I came back to these songs over and over in 2020. Sometimes it was the resonance of the lyric with my personal narrative. Sometimes it was an infectious melody that woke me up in the middle […]
Songwriters, here are some prompts to get your creativity flowing in these days of social distancing. A stay-at-home order might be a gift, providing some extra time to think, process, and create. Here are four ways to focus your songwriting in this season. (My focus here is definitely on those of you who are writing
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Throughout my career, I’ve worked with a variety of educational institutions, churches, record companies, and touring artists. All four of those worlds are being shaken by the current crisis our world is facing. I’ve spent the last few weeks researching different ways organizations respond in crisis and I have discovered a few key leadership suggestions
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I’m grateful to have some wise and caring friends checking in on me these days. REMEMBER, your single, extroverted friends who live alone view these stay-at-home directives as a prison sentence. Don’t ASK what they need. They’ll just say “I’m fine!” YOU’RE what they need. Schedule a FaceTime hang, work out together, swap your favorite
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BORDER CRISIS The state of Texas is at the frontline of America’s recent obsession with border security. Some call it a crisis. Others call our response to the situation the crisis. From where I sit at Barbarossa Coffee about 365 miles from nearest border crossing, the idea of crossing international borders still seems abstract. Most
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Over the last 47 years I’ve seen some glorious things, walked in some heavenly places. There are a bunch of lists of “WONDERS OF THE WORLD” and I’ve witnessed many of them. They each deserve their own page of wondrous description. I’ve seen Kilimanjaro peeking above the clouds from Kenya and seen Mount Ranier peeking
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2017 is rapidly setting and this twilight always causes me to reflect on the records that moved me over the last 12 months. I’m always torn what’s worth sharing because I so rarely return to the albums over and over. I listen to new music once or twice and move on to whatever is released
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While I understand everyone’s desire to drive supplies into Houston, I can tell you from my experiences during Katrina that truck loads of random donations create a huge logistical mess. Sorting through your used goods to determine their usefulness and get them to the right place takes a whole infrastructure itself. Your BEST WAY to
I’m a song guy. I don’t often sit and listen through full albums much less listen to the same albums more than once. However, in 2015, I consistently re-visited these 10 new albums. There were other albums I listened to a bunch in 2015 – albums I contributed to – but these are the top
For the last 10 years I’ve been chasing a unicorn. I’ve seen it. I know it’s real. You can’t tell me it’s just a crazy dream because I am one of the privileged few people in the world who know the truth; it’s rare but it’s real. Parents tell their children, “chase something certain.” Guidance
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