friday random elevenish: “collecting projects” edition
It’s been awfully exciting lately. This week really wasn’t, and that’s okay.
I spent most of my time just getting work done, and working through the beginnings of the song I’m covering for Streamer Song Swap this year. This is the first time I’m doing it as, well, me, though I played bass on Metricula’s entry a few years back, and since Metricula’s running things this year, I decided to jump in. It’s a roughly annual fundraiser project where performers swap songs and do covers, with proceeds supporting The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, and music in schools is a good cause.
Anyway, I’m still working through my tune, but I’ve got to have my recording submitted by August 7, which gives me some time, but not that much time, and I’m feeling a little abmitious in terms of instrumentation and such.
Always another project…
Speaking of projects, I also signed up for the VCT Summer Challenge again, and I’m doing the birthday ride, which this year is 413.6 miles, or eight times the distance of the Virginia Capital Trail between now and the first week of September. No problem. In any case, you can track my progress over in the block on the left, because why not.
That’s honestly all I’ve got, except for some tunes, which has lots of girls names and solo projects from members of Americana-styled indie bands:
- “Emilia” – Young Gun Silver Fox
- “Nanci” – Toad The Wet Sprocket
- “Get Out Of This House” – Shawn Colvin
- “Winter Solstice” – The Tea Party
- “Crystal River” – Mudcrutch
- “Good Morning Coffee” – Seth Avett
- “She’s A Girl And I’m A Man” – Lloyd Cole
- “Jesus on the Telephone” – Machinery of the Human Heart
- “Elevator Boots” – Counting Crows
- “Whatever It Takes” – Sinéad Lohan
- “Grace” – Marcus Mumford
- “Faster” – Samantha Fish
