Archive for October 2020

Interested in having input into directional decisions on a song for the next record? If so, read on! If not, hopefully this will be interesting, nonetheless. Decisions, decisions … On one level, writing a song is really an ongoing series of decisions. I have a song I’m working on right now and I thought maybe…

Nothin’s The Way That It Really Appears There are many songs that have a combination of sunny, lighthearted music and darker, serious lyrics. That technique has a name that escapes me, but it’s a thing. House of Mirrors is that style of song. Lyrics typically mean different things to different people, and I’d guess this…

The short list I once was encouraged to make a list of 5 people, without whom my life would be in a significantly different place. I then needed to make sure they knew what they meant to me. One of those people was lost to Covid-19 this week. Ken Banwart was a giant in his…

My Dreamgirls Background vocalists get no love. Hollywood (or Motown, if you prefer) even wrote an award-winning movie – The Dreamgirls – on the subject. But today’s post is about two background singers I love very much … my daughters Kate and Kayla. We’ve sung together all of their lives and having them sing on…