Stacking the deck

So for a while now, I’ve been hearing some stuff about the producer for the new Brian Free and Assurance project (who is NOT Wayne Haun, alas). Evidently BFA’s label, Daywind, and this producer have agreed that BFA has to record at least three songs that the producer has written. Honestly.
The producer, Barry Weeks, is […]

Recent changes in sg

I see Hope’s Cal signed with Daywind. Good for them, I guess. The few times I’ve seen them they’ve had their act together mostly, and they clearly know how to sing (even if the vocal histrionics are still a bit too often in play). But I would thought they’d signed with Wayne Haun and […]

Spot in Time

The last few months have, obviously, involved a far reduced presence for me online. Mostly this has to do with so-called real-world work and the demands that the regular school year put on teachers. I should have […]

Two songs in the morning

What does one do at 4:13 in the a.m. when one can’t sleep? If one were really smart, one would try to push through some of the mounds of work that have piled up on one’s desk, […]

Dovish

I don’t have a lot to add to the discussion about the Dove awards over at sogo. Good to see so many sg nominations in different categories, especially […]

Run that by me again

So while I as putzing around the house a while ago, I decided to pop the Perrys’ Life of Love back in, and I caught the most amazing bass-guitar lick that somehow I had managed to miss […]

Hot tracks (sic) comin’ through

Back in the fall, I mounted a pretty vigorous defense of Gerald Wolfe’s decision to trot out “O Holy Night” at NQC. I argued that if you’re a baritone who can sing a full-voice A-flat in […]