I’ve been a user of Blip.fm for sometime now. You may have got the auto DM in your Twitter Inbox from one of your tweeps telling you to try blip.fm “It’s like Twitter for Music!”. Unfortunately the only reason I ever logged into Blip.fm was to tweet songs to Twitter and never used Blip as [...]
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Soft Songs For The Morning
I recorded this singing softly in the early morning while my wife and baby were asleep. Ray Lamontagne’s Jolene lends itself to the quiet atmosphere. I recommend you buy every Ray Lamontagne record you can find. I promise you will not regret it. This song is off of his album ‘Trouble’.
On Transcending With Creativity
I wrote this song about the ability of the creative imagination to transcend the oppressive circumstances life sometimes seems to hands us. It’s called Calliope named after the Greek Muse of Epic Poetry and also as Homer’s Muse of The Iliad and The Odyssey. I added the video overlay effects to symbolize how one feels [...]
How To Find Inspiration For Your Work One World Away
The song in the video I made below was inspired while I was watching a travel show in which they visited a country in Africa. Which African country escapes me but during one of the scenes a song was playing in the background.
A man was playing a simple blues riff and singing the most agonizingly [...]
Jimi Hendrix Talks About Culture, Creativity, Religion, Evolution And Oh Yeah… Music
If you’ve known me for any length of time, then you know that Jimi Hendrix is one of my heroes. He’s been an inspiration to me since a friend loaned me ‘Are You Experienced’ on cassette when I was 16 years.
My close friend and fellow musician Sean Donnelly gave me the nickname ‘Jesse Hendrix’ [...]