For anyone who doesn’t know Wendy Jans, she’s an incredibly talented singer and songwriter here in Nashville, and she’s one of the first people Karsten and I met in town six and a half years ago. She’s done vocals on
Has a star ever proposed to you from the stage of the Ryman?
It’s never happened to me. But that’s exactly what happened to Lucas. At Sunday night’s “Unwigged and Unplugged” show, featuring Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest, the following brand-new things occurred: * I was handed a live mic and
How cool is the Nashville Number System?
Not sure if I’ve ever talked about this here, but I just happened across this article about the Nashville Number System and wanted to point out how cool it is to watch session players use this. As the article points
Dispute over credits for Coldplay song
From David Wild writing at Huffington Post: Honk If You Wrote Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” Too. I would like to take the opportunity to claim that I wrote Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida.” In fact, I wrote “Viva La Vida” just
Bad news for Nashville music in pairs yesterday
It was a little bit of a shock to me to learn yesterday that Ticketmaster has decided to close Nashville-based Echo, which is a company I’ve danced close to for some time but never danced with, if you know what
Running with the muses
I saw on Spence Smith’s blog where he mentioned that he goes out every so often for a run while listening to music that inspires him, and how creatively refreshing that is, and so on. I do this, too, and
Depeche Mode, iTunes, and the state of the music industry,
I hadn’t heard about the Depeche Mode iTunes Pass fiasco: Just recently, Apple introduced its iTunes Pass program with Depeche Mode, only to find the proposition dismantled by the internet itself. The Pass builds extras around a formal album release
But it’s so much nicer to come home
We’re back! And so far it doesn’t look like jet lag should be too much of an issue: I’ve been up since 8 AM this morning, which is a little later than usual for me, but only by an hour
Shanghai while sick, days 2 and 3
This has been an odd vacation: I’ve been struggling with still being sick (I came down with a virus infection less than a week before we left) and with having no energy due to weirdness with the timing of taking
Day 1 in Shanghai, in incomplete sentences
Idea borrowed from Jae from her updates about her most recent vacation. I love the idea of documenting highlights, but not bothering to write up whole sentences and paragraphs to describe what can be 90% summed up in loose phrases.