Wanted to interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to let you know about a pet project of mine called - intro.verse.chorus
Newly launched, intro.verse.chorus is a website/blog dedicated to the art of songwriting. In addition to maintaining my personal Blog here, I’ll also be writing for intro.verse.chorus as well as curating, with other writers contributing as we go. The idea being sort of a ‘songwriters on songwriting’ kind of collective. If you’re a musician, songwriter or even an Über-music fan curious to see what goes on under the hood, I think you’ll enjoy this site.
Check out our launch post to learn more or jump straight to the main URL here…
…for the latest piece featuring the first installment of a master class series with singer/songwriter and Composer Fellow of the Sundance Institute, David Poe.
Lastly, selected posts from my personal intro.verse.chorus contributions will also be featured on my Guitar World Blog.
Please visit IVC if you can, subscribe if you like (RSS or email) and pass it along to the musician, songwriter or music lover in your life.
Thought I'd kick off the new year on a positive note and share some hot-off-the-press music. See below for the self-doubting, tongue-in-cheek title track to my (some time in the distant future) new album, "Flop of the World".
(Yes, music journos, I know the title's a "gimme", snark away).
Produced by yours truly and my musical director of some 38 years, Jay Sherman-Godfrey, "Flop..." will be streaming here on the Blog for your listening pleasure through 1/22/12.
Lyrically speaking, the writing for this new album seems to be shaping up as kind of a loose exploration in perspective (one man's ceiling..., etc) and how it relates to our definitions of "success/failure", whether it be in life or in love.
Musically, the record looks as if it might turn out to be a mingling of French Quarter-infused, music hall romps and "Million Dollar Milkshake"-era powerpop jams. Sounds odd? Possibly so. But maybe it's all in the way you look at it.
Flop of the world, Flop of the world Looking up at the bottom Even the Japanese forgot him Flop of the world…
”Don’t change you’re beautiful, each song’s a hit Just try and lay off of that 70’s bit. Think something edgy, outside the box How ‘bout some hip hop, or some classic rock?”
Flop of the world, Flop of the world Looking up at the bottom Even the Japanese forgot him Flop of the world…
Does this sound hipper? Angry and lean Should I try screamin’? I’m not that mean, it’s not my scene...
Maybe it's true, maybe I’m not that great Even this melody is second rate Just a legend in my own mind Soon flipping burgers for the take-out line…
Flop of the world (look Ma!), Flop of the world Looking up at the bottom Even the Japanese forgot him Flop of the world
Wanted to interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to let you know about a pet project of mine called - intro.verse.chorus
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