Tiny Desk Concert Contest.

Hello everyone,
We wish you happiness and joy for now and always.
This week Elissa and I got sick. Yup, we came down
with that bad flu that's been going around. We got the
whole ball of wax. Sleepy, coughs, fever, body aches.

Oh man, it's yucky.

National Public Radio has a contest every year and the
winner gets to play at the main studio in their office area.
LINK
I've submitted to this contest every year that it's been around and this year is no different.
The song I submitted this year is an old one I wrote just after I moved to Rochester. It's called, "Twice". It's a flat-picking, jammy, sort of thing. Please feel free to share the video around as much as you want.


Here is the Spotify link to the song. LINK
Here is the iTunes link in case you want to buy it. LINK
Don't forget to keep the shiny side up!!

Walking the Dog

     The other day I got a GoPro Hero 4+ for my anniversary gift. We usually don’t go for the gift thing, but seeing as how it was our first year wedding anniversary we went for it. She got a Fitbit Blaze which is actually pretty neat. It’s not really my style, but I am so glad that she likes it. It makes me happy that she’s happy.
     I have been searching the inter webs for an attachment for my motorcycle so I can have some fun recording where I drive. While I look around for this I decided to bring it with while we took our little pooch for a walk. Her name is Marley and she just loves a walk.  It was around 20 - 30 minutes long, so I sped it up. I figured it’d be fun to watch us walk around our little neighborhood in the sunshine.

The song you’re listening to as we walk is just a blues jam in A, but if we need to name it I think we should call it ‘Walkin the Dog’. I did all the tracks with my old Gibson L-1. There was no mic but the one on my iPad and my DAW was Garageband. I needed it to be simple so… here it is.
Walking the Dog.
I’m wishing you a happy happy day.

Trevor

Lazy Bones

Here’s a video I’ve been working on for a few days. The writer/composers were Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael. It’s an old Tin Pan Alley song from 1933, and a lot of people have covered it over the years. 
Intermixed in the video footage are a couple of video clips from a trip that Elissa and I took into Wisconsin. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKEkME1mG8

 

New Boots

   What should I write about today? I could write about buying a panel van and converting it to an RV complete with solar panels, but I didn’t do that this week. I could write about new and exciting music prospects which have come into my lap, but none have. Oh, I could write about reading any new books, but I’m not finding time to read with all the goals I’ve set for myself. What if I wrote about those goals? Oh yes you’re right I already have.

I could and do wish you all a very merry unbirthday unless it’s your real birthday in which case eat some cake for the rest of us.

    We could and should talk about the weather.

    

    Today’s weather in Minnesota on the 28th of March (the day this is written is different then the day it’s published) is wonderfully pleasant. The temperature is 56 F or 13.333 C it’s mostly sunny and thankfully the planet is starting to angle correctly so our snow will melt. Soon the tree’s will be green and the water free to move.

    Well that was quick now what else to write about.

    Boots. I love boots. They are so cool and I always thought that it would be fun to have a pair of boots made just for me. Fitting my feet’s little quirks and weirdnesses. Now that’s not to say I don’t like the idea of having my feet bare naked in grass or squishing in the mud because I do love it. I also love boots. What kind of boots would you have made for you? Cowboy, hiking, the sexy ones with the zipper up the back, how about a Winter boot, my wife just had some handsome moccasin boots made for her. They fit her feet perfectly, and I am jealous. They did cost her a bunch though, but they fit her feet because they were made to. Wouldn’t that be cool? It would be super cool. What about other things like shirts. I’d love to have shirts made to fit, or how about underpants? Well, I guess that would just get weird.

Homework: Today, I suggest you take your shoes and socks off and step outside into the cold with your bare feet. Why? Well, just to feel alive that’s why.

Tiny Desk Concert Contest

NPR has a concert series that they've been doing for a bunch of years now called, 'Tiny Desk Concert'. People come in and play a few songs right at their desks. Last year they had a contest in which the winner got to play the Desk Concert. I entered but didn't win.
Well, this year I entered again.
I shot, performed, mixed, and edited the whole thing in one day.

Here's my submission.
Let me know what you think about it.

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Trevor Marty