Songs in The Raw - some new ones

I'm sitting in a coffee shop in Nicholasville, KY getting ready for a show with my friend Dustin Overbeek. We played in Danville, KY last night to a rowdy crowd of 12 people. It must be my bad luck, but I have a habit of playing towns on the day when the entire city leaves for a Holiday. Seriously, this has happened to me at least ten times. The bartender says something like "You should have been here last night. The whole town was out and partying...but they all left today!" My hope is that Nicholasville always gives Danville shit for leaving a week early. After all, it's December 13th....does Christmas vacation actually start now? Cause, if it does, that's a long vacation. When I was a kid, we got like a week off and we were so fried from mid terms it would take us through New Years Eve to get over the work load and start enjoying the Holidays.

All of this would have been true, if I actually did the work! I never worried too much about school....maybe why I am writing songs and looking for a bag of money on the ground where ever I go.

At any rate, none of that has to do with anything about the songs that I put on SONGS IN THE RAW this week. I've been doing a ton of writing lately. I am really happy with the folks that I have been meeting with to write. Maybe one day I'll include some of the tunes that I am co-writing on SONGS IN THE RAW. But for now I am happy to put my solo writes on there.

The first song is called "21st Century Casualty". I was thinking about the folks on Haight Street and how the winter must affect them. It must be tough to sleep in the park during the winter. I remember living in Colorado and every winter a few homeless folks would die during the winter from exposure to the elements. That's got to be a tough way to go! It feels like society gets to a point where you're just left behind. People care up to a certain point, but there is a line that gets crossed and the hearts stop bleeding and the hand outs stop flowing. No more pity, no embarrassment, no more sorrow, just a sense of "we'd be better off is you just disappeared". That's where "21st Century Casualty" come in. Like life is a war and there are some casualties in a war and some are acceptable. Head over to SONGS IN THE RAW and check it out.

The second song is called "It All Goes Slow Mo'" and it's a lullaby....sort of. I recorded it and looked at the little timer in the corner of the editing window and realized that it was 2 minutes long...with a 30 second outro. Hey, what can I do. If the song is over, the song is over. But I am pretty happy with it. It's a song about how it feels to be in love and with the person that you love. How it can be dreamy and magical and surreal. Time falls out the window and even the most mundane tasks become moments of excitement. It's a pretty cool thing! Check it out....SONGS IN THE RAW.

I hope that everyone is reflecting on an important year in the World's History and the History of our country. It's a brave new world....just glad to be a part of it!!!

Peace,
Jon

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