Tuesday
May292007
Songs, Rules and Africa
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 12:05PM
I'm here in the Velvet Eagle today, trying to catch up on email and write and record more tunes for the EP. I've got three songs finished now, and a couple more started. I've had the most success with tying in single words and phrases that you guys have sent in, so feel free to shoot me more of those today. I'm having a blast doing this.
For now, anyway, I've been setting myself with these rules:
1. Only one guitar, an acoustic, per song. However, there is no limit to how many tracks of that guitar I can use.
2. The only other instrument will be my voice, and again, I can use as many tracks as I want.
3. No picks.
We'll see if I can keep that up for six or seven songs, but for now it's been fun.
In other news, Caedmon's just got booked for three shows in South Africa in Late July. The dates are :
7/27 Hillcrest, Durban, ZA
7/28 Moreleta Park, Pretoria, ZA
7/29 Bellville, Capetown, ZA
I'll have more information as we get closer, but I think all the shows are festivals. Am I smelling a road trip???
For now, anyway, I've been setting myself with these rules:
1. Only one guitar, an acoustic, per song. However, there is no limit to how many tracks of that guitar I can use.
2. The only other instrument will be my voice, and again, I can use as many tracks as I want.
3. No picks.
We'll see if I can keep that up for six or seven songs, but for now it's been fun.
In other news, Caedmon's just got booked for three shows in South Africa in Late July. The dates are :
7/27 Hillcrest, Durban, ZA
7/28 Moreleta Park, Pretoria, ZA
7/29 Bellville, Capetown, ZA
I'll have more information as we get closer, but I think all the shows are festivals. Am I smelling a road trip???
Reader Comments (18)
oooh take me! take me! i'll be responsible for the beer runs.
AO, has anyone else ever done anything like this with their fans before that you know of??
it seems more than a bit genius and it also seems like a project that is a never ending well spring of opportunity...as in it could be done again and again between major projects.
I'm with Bo. This is not only awesome for you to put out another record and make some ca$hola, but it is awesome for us. The fans. Especially coming from an artist who we all really really like. :) welikeandy :)
Africa? Crazy awesome. Don't forget to write. ... On your blog, that is :)
Cape Town is absolutely amazing.
Maybe i'll stop by on my way back from India. :)
and here's a thought for you:
"By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men." Chesterton
Regarding the words and phrases you are looking for...are you looking for serious or jocular?!
While we're on Chesterton, here's one of my favorite quotes of his:
"Some people," he wrote, "think that I am not serious but only funny, because they think that funny is the opposite of serious. But funny is the opposite of not funny, and of nothing else."
Here are a few scattershot thoughts for you:
"Love is a choice"- Elisabeth Elliot
"Behind every word there stands for a moment Jesus Himself." - not sure who said this I think Andrew Murray
For all the little that I give to thee, Thou gavest first to me."- Amy Carmichael
"It's a good problem, Lord. I can't wait to see how you solve it."(paraphrased)- Jim Elliot
dude create a choir with your voice that would be so awesome but i think you should include some of the songs you have not put on cds yet like something better and the longing and the phenix all songs i love and you should definitely record a song that is hilarious maybe about the tomball gang heckling you about old normals bootlegs thats just me though
Here's a song theme/idea which is very profound to me: the paradox of all that is true...like how death brings life, humility is true renown, love demands sacrifice, and how simple-yet-complex are the principles of grace and self-denial. The interplay of these and other paradoxes are what, I think, makes Creation truly creative.
'exclusion and embrace'
it's the title of a book by theologian miroslav volf, it deals with reconciliation and how it can be accomplished. i finished reading it a couple of weeks ago and it's still been on my mind, this idea that to be able to truly reconcile we need to be able to embrace, on many different levels, our enemies. this has also made me wonder whether simply being able to forgive those around us is enough, that maybe we need to not just say 'sorry' but actually ask for the forgiveness of those we offend and hurt.
chortle
ulysses
the x-files
minivans
hey andy, we never got a final report on what you decided to name your friends studio. what did you go with?
Hey Andy, I came across the real artwork for the new CC album... take a look...
http://www.falsecathedrals.com/?p=71
Hey Andy, I found the real cover art for the new CC album... take a look.
http://www.falsecathedrals.com/?p=71
Two phrases on my mind lately since we're in the process of adopting from China:
"Father of the fatherless"
"We are all adopted by the Father through his Son"
I came up with a phrase tonight...
"Yelling at the top from the bottom"
Doesn't really connect to anything else, but what the hay!
I do have a question though, are you allowed to use your acoustic as a percussion instrument?
Billy Graham paraphrase...."I feel like I've just been to my own funeral."
The Man.