Open Mondays

Well lets get started.
There will be differences. I'm getting rid of all the arbitrary rules I put on myself except one. I don't need to say the name of month. In fact I don't need to say anything. I won't worry about dating my music with birthdays. The only rule I intend to keep is one song a month. Good bad or indifferent. I just want to continue my musical journal a little while longer. I have plenty of good news to report.
This song is called "Open Mondays" because I intended to record it my first Monday at the barbershop. Hung out with friends all day at work instead so I ended up recording it on Tuesday. It's an instrumental which the rules would not have allowed last year. I like it. Just a little progression I recorded with a crappy little microphone. Then I soloed over it. Just two tracks, Two acoustic guitars and the spirit of a slow Monday (on a Tuesday).

Open Mondays

The Calendar Project 2008

I had allot of ambitious ideas for projects to come after last years calender project. I felt relief when I finished December because it was like a completed thought. If I did another song for January I would be starting all over again and wouldn't be able to quit until next year. That's an overwhelming responsibility now that I know the work involved. That's when I began coming up with other ideas like a Willy Dixon research paper inspired cover album. I thought about doing one Beatles song a day until I've done all of them. I thought about doing one live performance a month and recording a new song for the blog at each show. By the time I racked my brain for almost a month I realized I had this nice little progression that I liked and nothing to do with it. That's when it hit that whether I noticed or not, I had already started the Calender Project 2008.
I'm excited because most of my other ideas didn't involve writing. I do feel after last year the flood gates are open. Life right now is too good not to write about. The shops doing well, new baby, Pats headed for the Super Bowl, and Lost returning to ABC on Thursday nights. What's not to enjoy.
It's going to be a great year.