The Song-A-Week Project continues with week 33. This week is Katharine's singing debut!
33. Nothing That I Can DoI wrote this song because I wanted to write something really simple sounding, with a clear, simple, singable melody. Once I came up with the refrain (Nothing that I can do... except for loving you), the song called out for silly verses ( Read more... )

So as part of my continual effort to write a song a week, I've written a Christmas song this week. The tune is called "Our First Christmas Alone"

As always, the Song-A-Week Project is hosted on the internet archive and all songs are licensed as creative commons non-commercial share-alike music ( Read more... )

Here are the two songs I've recorded in September so far. I'm still behind, but not as far behind as it seems if you've been following these posts - I've just had a delay in posting the actual music ( Read more... )

A bit behind, but I'm catching up. Here are two songs for last and this week. As always, they're available at my Song-A-Week Project site on archive.org ( Read more... )

My Song-A-Week Project continues with week 12 (I'm still 2 weeks behind from vacations during the summer... but I'm hoping to catch back up). This week, I take a stab at the classic "dancing" song. I wanted to write a song about someone who can't dance. It ended up being that, in two different ways ( Read more... )

MY DREAMS STOPPED BELIEVING IN ME
(T. Beechey)

( MY DREAMS STOPPED BELIEVING IN ME )

Here's week 11's song: Groceries. This song was inspired by groceries. Somehow I got from groceries to a break-up song, don't know how exactly.

Once again, the song is available under a creative commons, non-commercial, share-alike license from my internet archive Song-A-Week Project page. Here are the direct links:

• Groceries (flac)
• Groceries (mp3 ( Read more... )

Here are weeks 9 & 10 of my song-of-the-week project. I was out of town for a number of weekends there so I'm a bit behind, but I will catch up! I'd anticipated falling behind one week, but didn't realize I wouldn't get any writing or recording done while I was traveling, which put me 2 songs behind. I'm traveling once again this weekend, so I'm ( Read more... )

Here are two song-a-weeks in one -- the belated song for last week and the early song for this week.

The first song is a genuine song-of-the-week -- it's called paper-or-plastic and it's a sort of country blues about indecision.

The second song is actually a song I wrote before this project started, but I was desperate (I'm going away tomorrow and ( Read more... )

Here's my song-a-week project week 6:

• Rumble Strip (as an mp3) for normal folks
• Rumble Strip (as ogg) for freedom lovers
• Rumble Strip (as flac) for bandwidth-user-uppers

It's also available via the old soundclick page here. If you download it there, I guess you'll help me rise in the "charts" (though since I'd never heard of soundclick before I went ( Read more... )