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Ponytail!
A week ago I was at DC9, awaiting the amazing Ponytail's set - an incredible, creative, unique band whose members I am honored to call friends. I don't know what it was about that night - I'd seen them play twice before - but somehow that night everything was perfect. The crowd was absolutely frenetic - when they came on, everyone just exploded ( Read more... ) -
musicks
wrote a fifth original cello song tonight. i'm happy that i'm able to do this. i've never written cello-only original songs before this year. also, it will be good not to have the second album be all covers again ( Read more... ) -
Rcrd Lbl feature
I am featured in today's "Demo Days" post on my favorite music blog, Rcrd Lbl:
http://rcrdlbl.com/2009/02/18/demo_days_02_18_2009
And being featured, I now get my own Rcrd Lbl page! -
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Gordon_Withers/music
Next steps:
1. Play more cello
2. World domination.
3. ??????
4. PROFIT -
alex nelson - songs posted
this week, my good friend alex nelson posted 11 songs from his forthcoming album, 10 of which i play cello on:
http://www.reverbnation.com/alexnelson
for those keeping score at home, alex is the incredibly awesome soul who recorded my Jawbox on Cello album back in 2007. we played a couple shows together before i moved up to virginia later that ( Read more... ) -
we all inherit the moon
I'm featured on a new song by the wonderful California-based instrumental band We All Inherit The Moon. Go to their Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/weallinheritthemoon) to hear it - it's the fifth song in their music player ("and ever part III"). The song will be out on a ( Read more... ) -
recording with swith_drawn
they say that a task will take up however much time you allot to it. in one sense, it has taken an eternity to record a set of songs i wrote about 10 years ago, because i never set a deadline for it. in another sense, it is taking exactly three days.
after 10 years of schedules-never-working-out, swith_drawn and i finally found a small window of time when ( Read more... )
