Week 121: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 14

The album is mixed! Mastering will be done very soon and the artwork and design are being worked on as we write this.

It’s been more than a year an half since we started this project, but it feels like this is all we’ve been doing since the beginning of time. Not because it [...]

Week 106: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 13

Since we are not playing out as a band as much as we used to, I have been playing these small gigs by myself. These gigs are usually in a form that I would describe as songwriter showcases. Where two to four songwriters play about 30 minutes each, or rotate one song each. The [...]

Week 102: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 12

We played a show last night. The first of a handful of shows we’ll be playing to warm up for the release of the record. We played at the Reservoir for an excellent local crowd. The Alcazar Hotel opened up and they played some great cheaptrick spiced rock, very good tunes.

Diane and [...]

Week 95: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 11

We are approaching the end of this project. It’s been almost two years since we started putting the songs together for this. And soon we will be doing final mixes, mastering, and artwork, and then finally manufacturing the thing. But there is still a little bit of recording to be done.

Recently Nathan Golub [...]

Week 85: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 10

Baby Camilia

the end of the first act. the cliff hanger. the curtain before intermission. the impulse to change. the reason to try something different. the suggestion of a new beginning. the swing of the pendulum.

Week 79: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 9

I didn’t want to do this two weeks in a row at this point, but I’ve been trying to figure out what else to post about, and I’m drawing a total blank. This is the music that I’m thinking about so it’s hard to step outside of it to talk about anything else. A [...]

Week 78: The Ballad Of Stayed and Gone 8

Sometimes it’s nice the way a project develops over a long period of time. And by project I mean the working out of particular ideas and their documentation.

As time and energy are put into it, the project begins to take a life of it’s own and to suggest it’s own development. A long [...]

Week 66: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 7

Part of me resists writing these posts, these posts about our recording project. These posts about music most of you probably won’t care to hear in its finished form, much less in the incomplete and imperfect form found in these posts. Part of me wants to wait until everything is done so I can [...]

Week 57: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 6

It’s been 17 weeks since my last post on this recording project. During these past weeks, we’ve been focusing on rehearsing the music, playing a few live shows, and vacationing, and last Sunday we officially started production of the record.

But before that, over the past few months, we played a few gigs in [...]

Week 40: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 5

If the NAP is a baby fetus in our collective uterus, then it is due this week. Though it is not uncommon for babies to be late, I say that, as much as we’d like to continue feeding this baby from our placenta forever and ever, it is time to let it start breathing [...]