Friday, April 10, 2009

"From Whence Comes My Help?"

I lift my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.

He will not let you foot be moved;
he who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.

The LORD is your keeper;
The LORD is your shade on your right hand
The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night

The LORD will keep you from all evil;
He will keep your life.
The LORD will keep
your going out and your coming in
from this time forth and forevermore.

Psalm 121

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Red Bull and Spinning Clouds

So yesterday was an interesting day.

I was on my way to work and I noticed that it was getting pretty cloudy and and it looked like the weather was going to get pretty nasty in a hurry. I didn't really think a whole lot about it because, well I work inside and I don't really worry about things like... you know, rain. So I went on my merry way.

I had left my house early because I wanted to stop and get a Red Bull before I went to work. Not an uncommon occurrence and I normally stop at the same gas station which is just down the street past the restaurant that I work at.

As I drove by the restaurant I noticed that half of our wait staff was standing outside, staring at the sky. Curious I look out my window and I kid you not, I saw a cloud spinning.

It was incredible! But I realized, spinning clouds are really cool to look at, but I have to ask myself this question...WHAT AM I DOING OUSIDE STARING AT SPINNING CLOUDS?
So I quickly decided that the Red Bull wasn't worth it, pulled into the Wallgreens parking lot, where I normally park my truck, grabbed my coat and walked quickly across the street to the restaurant.

Long story short, there were quite a few jokes made about hiding in our walk in cooler and dying. The sky got really dark and it rained really hard for all of 2 minute and it was all over.

Then we had to get back to work.



Thursday, March 5, 2009

Corrections

Okay, so it was 8 songs total, like I said long day.

More to come soon.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Quick status update

Long day...long weekend for that matter.

I have been putting in a lot of late nights over the past couple of days trying finish up some revisions on a couple new songs that I've been working on recently. So I really didn't get a whole lot of down time this weekend.

Yesterday was a typical day at the office, still trying to work out the finer details on a couple new projects.

Today, I started out the morning by helping set up for a session at Hummingbird, then I drove down to the row to meet my friend PG to track a couple demos for the new songs that I had been working on all weekend.

All in all we tracked 7 songs
5 originals
2 covers (because we had time)

I'm beat and I am going to bed now.

Peace,
nb

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Round 2

Working title: Grace

I'm a desperate man to suit my desperate cause, and everybody knows
Trying day and night to put these fears to rest, but they just wont go
I've been dancing round in circles holding close to my old sins
Building up my house of cards to watch it fall again
I need to find a hiding place
I need to feel your tender grace
There's a picture frame hanging on my wall, but he don't look like me
It reminds me when I thought I knew it all, innocent belief
I was 17 and proud of what I don't know
Now I'm Barely 23 and I feel so far from home
I need to find a hiding place
I need to feel your tender grace
I need to find a hiding place
I need to feel your tender grace

The Great Chuck Berry!

A couple of weeks ago my buddy Charlie and I sat down and wrote a song. We like it a lot, hope you do too.

Oh and his last name really is Berry, and he is a fantastic guitarist.

And I'll try and get a demo up soon.

Right now the working title is Renee.... I think

Hello girl, I know it's been a while
It must be strange to hear my voice on the line
Do you have somebody? do you spend your nights alone?
I've been sitting here for hours trying to dial the telephone

I wanna lay you down in the desert beneath this blanket of a sky
Far from the city lights and distraction we could lose ourselves tonight

Every day I get a little bit further away
But you keep walking through the back door of my mind
Renee, how I miss your loving arms
I guess you don't know what you've got until it's gone

I know girl, this will come as a surprise
But this fire inside me has been burning for quite some time
Is there room for redemption? is it too late to begin?
I wanna show you all the things I didn't have the nerve to show you then

I wanna fall into your ocean, let your beauty take me in
If I could hold you close I'd never let you go again

Every day I get a little bit further away
But you keep walking through the back door of my mind
Renee, how I miss your loving arms
I guess you don't know what you've got until it's gone

If you were here I'd be standing proud
If I could only say these words to you out loud

Every day I get a little bit further away
But you keep walking through the back door of my mind
Renee, how I miss your loving arms
I guess you don't know what you've got until it's gone

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Yes it is February!

February Album Writing Month.... 14 Songs. 28 Days

What are you waiting for...Inspiration?

Check it out http://fawm.org/

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." — Jack London