Song of the Week (July 21, 2007)

Well, here it is. The first installment of many, many more to come. I have included a song off of my new CD, "Charmed Life", called "Only Human". I had recorded it a few weeks ago and through it on the SNOCAP store as a test run for this process. I'll do this from time to time since I have a few more of these songs just sitting around doing nothing. But I will always include a new song from the current week.
So, anyway, I realise that I am not the only person doing this. As a matter of fact, I didn't even come up with idea on my own. A good friend of mine sent me an article about a guy from the New York area who has been doing this type of thing for a while. So, as I got ready to take this on, I read a few more articles and spent a while on Google looking into and listening to what other people were doing. What I found was a TON of great music out there. Very creative people who are committed to their craft and are working hard to promote themselves. Thank god for the Internet! It's the ultimate tool for unknown, independent artists...in all mediums.
What I do want to say it that I am not going to have the "production value" that I have heard from other artists. I will never use a whole band on my recordings. No drum tracks and no string sections. I may, from time to time, include a lead guitar or a piano part and maybe a backing vocal. My intention is not to put out songs that one day will be made into a record. My goal is to continually put out songs that are current to what is on my mind....if there is anything on my mind.
I am intentionally keeping the format in the raw. Some people call them "demos". I prefer to use the term intimate. I want the song to be the point of focus. I want the melody and lyrics to stand alone instead of being clouded by drums, keyboards, guitar solos and studio production. Not that there is anything wrong with making a kick ass recording including all of those things. I do it all the time. That, however, is not my goal with this endeavor.
OK...enough of my yakking'......let's boogy!
Here' the SNOCAP store with the two songs from this week. I will keep all of the songs available until I run out of room in my SNOCAP store. Then I am going to open another store and post both of them. So you will always be able to find any song you want from as far back as you want.
I hope you like what you hear.