Here is a place to start.

I'm writing new tunes.

You can watch some of this music take shape. (Hey, you didn't think I'd give up all my secrets ... now, did you??)

Check out my ArtistShare for Songwriters Project by going HERE.

I've uploaded two demos, lyric sketches and few (initial) videos.

It is going to be an interesting ride ... It ALWAYS is!

They think of something they want to do or need to do (or have always wanted to do) and they do it.

They find a way.  They make the time.  They stay up late.  They give up going to the gym or an extra hour of sleep or going into the city for the weekend.  

You can spot these people a mile away. 

Sure, they look a little tired but they're the ones with a certain glint in their eye. 

They are working ... on something.  They regret dinner invitations.  They bag going to the gym for the day or the week.  They don't call you back right away.  They *gasp* might not reply to your email within a minute or an hour or a day or a week or a month.

Then there's everyone else, with a million reasons not to do something.  There's not enough time.  They don't have the money.  It wouldn't matter to anyone but them.  It not worth it.  No one's going to care.  They can't do it perfectly so why bother.  Their parent's would think they are wasting their education.  Their friend's would think they'd gone AWOL.  Etc. Etc. Etc.

Which person are you?  

Which are you going to be?

I’ve been listening old blues records lately.

Yesterday, I heard Estella “Mama” Yancey say this line:

“I’m gonna write him a letter and throw it over his fence”

It's a line from the song "Four O'Clock Blues."

Interesting idea.  I might try it one of these days.

(Mama Yancey is, of course, accompanied by the great Jimmy Yancey.  Wikipedia says "part of Yancey's distinctive style was that he played in a variety of keys but always ended every song in E flat."  Wow.  I might try that one day, too.)

A few months ago, as we drove from Philly to Boston, I subjected my dear friend John Ellis to the entire Tina Turner Live in Amsterdam Concert DVD.

He and I sat in the back of the car and watched the show on my laptop.  I told John that the next time we toured together, I wanted him to be more like Tina's sax player ...

This one's for you, John!