OldDog Chasing Songs Vox 2008-07-02T12:54:57Z humbletree http://humbletree.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00cdf3a1d2facb8f/ a songwriting blog Sanctuary (a flickr slideshow) tag:vox.com,2008-07-02:asset-6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00fad695d1e80005 2008-07-02T03:27:45Z 2008-07-02T12:54:57Z humbletree http://humbletree.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

sanctuary

I have always been fascinated with combining music and images on the web but have been unimpressed with the quality of images and sound on YouTube. A direct upload to Vox offers better sound quality in stereo rather than mono, but the images ...

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Misaki Blues

June already. It has taken me this long to collect my thoughts and images from a trip last Fall to Japan where we stayed again with my wife's sister-in-law in Misaki, a small fishing town on the tip of the Miura Penninsula about an hour and a hal...

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Sanctuary

This one had been sitting around half finished for a couple of years when I decided to pick it up again and see where it might go now. Originally I had in mind a physical place as sanctuary from the world of work and worries, but this time aroun...

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]]> Andrew Bird on songwriting tag:vox.com,2008-04-09:asset-6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00e398ee571b0005 2008-04-09T02:08:32Z 2008-04-13T13:32:14Z humbletree http://humbletree.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Just got an email notice from the NY Times and found a link to a new songwriting blog called Measure for Measure, featuring Andrew Bird, among others, and thought I should share it, if anyone else out there is interested. His fairly detailed des...

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wag more

Captured this bumper sticker on my afternoon trek to the cafe for a caffeine fix and it seemed like a good thing for an old dog like me to keep in mind. Who knows, maybe there is even a song somewhere in that message.

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Waiting for a Train

Trains always seem to provide good material for songwriting, whether about coming or going, or the journey itself as in Steve Goodman's classic, "City of New Orleans". This one verse song started with a common chord pattern finger picked in A,...

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Cranes in the backyard

Maybe I was too quick to give up on Spring in my last post. Two days after another record setting snowfall, we just looked out our back window to see a pair of sandhill cranes, back from their winter vacation for another summer in the marsh ...

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]]> Will Spring come? tag:vox.com,2008-03-23:asset-6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48ce731160002 2008-03-23T16:53:44Z 2008-04-01T03:07:28Z humbletree http://humbletree.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

heading downtown behind the bus a Starbucks moment on a snowy day bus stop on the Capitol Square

My last post was a simple declarative statement of hope and promise that "Spring will come", eventually. After getting hit hard with a major snow storm Friday ("Good Friday", by the way) you begin to have doubts, but in an effort to find somethi...

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Spring Will Come

The first day of Spring will be upon us this week, and none too soon. Its been a long, cold winter with record snow in Madison, leading to a bad case of cabin fever over the last several weeks. As we waited for a break in the weather, I decided...

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]]> Winterlude tag:vox.com,2008-03-01:asset-6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00e398e19a640004 2008-03-01T07:40:26Z 2008-04-01T03:49:47Z humbletree http://humbletree.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles

Seems like I have hit another dry spell probably brought on by the depressing winter we have been having this year here in Madcity. Record snowfall for the season already, and no sign yet of the Spring that Jimmy the Groundhog promised us back ...

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