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Brrrrr…winter.

January 30, 2019 by JGstott Leave a Comment

In which I co-write a song with a friend.

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Posted in: Music, Nature Tagged: songwriting, writers

Texas bound and Fall Updates.

September 23, 2018 by JGstott Leave a Comment

Happy fall!!! At least technically. It’s still pretty hot here today. But it is the start of fall. I have no idea what that means. I’m headed to Texas this week, to the Southwest Regional Folk Alliance Conference (or SWRFA, if you’re feeling hip). It should be three days of not sleeping, playing music, hanging … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Music, Travel, Uncategorized Tagged: album, gigs, music, recording, songwriting, youtube

Who are your heroes?

August 26, 2018 by JGstott Leave a Comment

If Darrell Scott played guitar in your band at a club show on a Saturday night, everyone who heard it would swear he was the best guitar player they had ever heard. If he sang at that gig, they would swear he was the best singer they had ever heard. If he played his songs, … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Music, Ramblings Tagged: Lyons, music, songs, songwriting

Myths and Legends

July 15, 2018 by JGstott Leave a Comment

I grew up with Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. If you aren’t from Minnesota we’ll forgive you for not knowing what that is. Click the link. Later on, I heard the John Henry story, probably in the Johnny Cash version, but there are so many versions. The John Henry story is an archetypal American … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Dirt&Heartache, Music, Ramblings Tagged: dirt&heartache, songs, songwriting, video, youtube

Process, what process? Birthing a song.

June 20, 2014 by JGstott 2 Comments

Someone asked me a while back, “what’s your songwriting process?” I think I mumbled, ‘uh, I dunno, I write stuff and sometimes it rhymes, and sometimes I figure out how to play guitar to it.’ Which sounds like the kind of thing Ray Wylie Hubbard would say (which secretly is exactly what I’m trying to … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Music Tagged: music, song, songwriting

Hey Ray Wylie, I did my homework…

January 22, 2014 by JGstott 1 Comment

Ray Wylie Hubbard, who has taken to writing loooong and really entertaining Facebook posts, included a song suggestion in a post not too long ago. I’m a big fan of his, so I just couldn’t resist following his instructions and seeing how it came out. Here are his instruction reproduced exactly: So there you go- … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Music Tagged: music, recording, song, songwriting, soundcloud

Experience into Art (with songs and a flood update)

October 13, 2013 by JGstott 4 Comments

So I posted the Flood Update a while back. In between finding a more stable place to spend our exile from home, talking to FEMA (I feel like I have a close personal relationship with a government agency), trying to have half a normal life (getting the kid to school, getting myself to work, helping … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Music, Ramblings Tagged: flood, Lyons, music, song, songwriting

Weather influenced songwriting…

April 21, 2013 by JGstott Leave a Comment

I’ve been taking an online songwriting class the past few weeks, which has been pretty cool. It’s has been a chance to learn some vocabulary for talking about the mechanics of songwriting and thinking about how to make all the pieces of a song work together. No radical breakthroughs, nor did I have any lighting … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Music Tagged: snow, song, songwriting, weather
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