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August 2011

whats is your favorite song written by you :)?

I’ve thought for a few minutes on how to answer this question properly. I could’ve been incredibly impulsive, but truth is I’m just indecisive. “September” was one of the first songs I’ve ever written. And probably the oldest song that I still play, or at least haven’t retired yet. Do I think it’s my best song? No. But it’s still got its special place in my heart.

There’s currently an untitled song for the new record that I’ve been testing the waters with in the live setting - acoustically and full band. I really like it because I think the song itself shows a step forward in a direction that I never ventured into before, nor intended on going in. But I love it all the same. More than a few people have approached me after some of the more recent shows and pointed out that they specifically liked this song, too. I wish I could be less nondescript. But you’ll hear it when it releases.

I wrote a song around a half year ago called “Along The Way”. If nothing else, I believe it is my most honest work to date. It’s about a break up I went through. And although the feel for it is not a sappy, sad break-up song, the lyrics have a lot of heart. It’s a very broken down song, too. It works with mainly just acoustic guitar. As much as I like to jam out with a bunch of other guys on stage to my songs, this song is entirely lyrically driven and needs those minimalist qualities to really set the tone of the story the listener will live in for at least those three minutes.

Aug 28, 2011 1 note
who is your biggest musical influence? and what did you grow up listening to?

Ahh, a nicely posed question. I’m going to answer the second question first because of the timeline correlation. I grew up listening to bands like Blink 182, Nirvana and Rancid. I was really heavy into punk and grunge when I was 10 or so. And if I want to date myself even further, I remember rocking out to No Doubt’s “Tragic Kingdom” which was released in 1995. I came in and out of a couple of different musical phases then. I floated around for a while until my mother gave me a copy of John Mayer’s “Any Given Thursday” Live DVD for Christmas, subsequently the same year I began playing guitar. From that day forward John Mayer encompassed all and everything I wanted to be. Those previously mentioned bands were reasons for why I got into music, but John Mayer is definitely the reason I still PLAY music.

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