Wednesday was one of the most beautiful nights in recent memory.
I approached the day with a bit of anxiety because I really didn’t want to let Jen down. We set a goal for $6000, the price of ONE prescription… but with the current state of the world, there are so many deserving places to put your money. Plus, let’s face it, who isn’t broke?
But come Wednesday morning, we were only $1000 from our goal and I was pretty certain we would reach it and maybe even surpass it.
Molly Malone’s is a great venue! I had expected it to be a bit more of a dive bar, but the set up is great- the bar is isolated from the music room, mimizing noise– and the sound is pretty dope.
Syd started out the night with really great set. I put Syd first on the bill because I knew that he would get the evening moving in the right direction. He is charming and in-the-moment and never gives a sub-par show. I learn something everytime I watch him. He sang a few songs from his EP ‘Upswing’ and my favorite older song of his ‘Skeleton Key.’
Keeley took the stage next and brought with her Danny Byrne on electric guitar and Natalie Metcalfe. Keeley is a sweetheart with a big huge voice and a heart to match. These three have been playing together for a couple of years now and they are TIGHT. They played songs from her most recent record ‘Three Cities’ as well as a couple of new ones that I can’t wait to have on record.
I took the stage next and chose to sit because my shoulder was acting up again.
Here’s my set:
Count the Shadows
Mistake
Subterranean
Little Bit of Blue
Gimme More
Ghosts
Hard to Breathe
Over my Head
Right on Time
My voice felt really strong that night and I’m proud of the performance. Check out this video of ‘Subterranean.’
And THIS one of ‘Right on Time.’
All in all, we raised $6700, well beyond our goal. I’m blown away, Jennifer is blown away. And we are so grateful for your support. And I promise, I won’t ask ya’ll for money again…. until I start fundraising for my next record
Thank you ALL so much for spreading the word and for donating your money. You made a concrete difference in one person’s life and ya’ll should feel good.
I myself am now shifting gears to get ready for some trouble. DOUBLE TROUBLE! My tour with Aiden James starts in LA on March 23! Look out!
So much going on the next few days! I’m chock full of excitement and energy. Here’s the scoop:
TONIGHT Rainbow World Radio is airing an interview I did with host Len Rogers last week. We had a really fun chat and he is going to play Sad Brit and Never Was (Tangent, I often acccidentaly type ‘Never Was’ as one word. Like it’s a place: Neverwas.) It airs at 8pm eastern at RainbowWorldRadio.com, but if you can’t listen live, you can stream it on the site for a few weeks.
TOMORROW, I’m shooting a video for ‘Ghosts’ with Kevin Thompson, who directed my last video for ‘Over My Head.’ I can’t wait to have a visual element to compliment my favorite song.
Then on WEDNESDAY, we’ve got the Benefit for Jennifer at Molly Malones with sets by yours truly, Keeley Valentino, George Stanford, and Syd. Fundraising is going really well, especially considering the multitude of deserving places one has to put their money this day and age. I know that Jennifer is really overwhelmed by the generosity and I’m certain that when all is said and done we will reach our goal.
Finally, I wanna give a shout to Fay Wolf, who totally achieved the holy grail of music placements last night when her beautiful song ‘Yours’ was on Grey’s Anatomy. And to top it off, she debuted at Hotel Cafe with an absolutely gorgeous set. Check her out!
My actual, physical, youcanholditinyourhand CDs of NEVER WAS came in Thursday of last week. They are just beautiful.
It has been really interesting releasing these EPs digitally first. As of now, I have no plans to manufacture SAD BRITNEY on CD, but I always planned on releasing NEVER WAS online first – as a presale of sorts – and using the proceeds to manufacture the physical copies. But there were a lot of bumps in the road to manufacturing and NEVER WAS had an exclusively online life for a lot longer than I had anticipated.
What I found is that while the world is inevitably moving in a more digital direction, there is still a healthy population of folks who prefer to listen to their music from a physical object. I, myself, have discoveed that I fall in the latter group. I’ve been proud of these four songs since the moment they began to take shape at the studio, but it wasn’t until I held the CD in my hand that I truly felt the weight of the accomplishment.
The CDs are currently available in my online store exclusively, but there are plans to distribute through Amazon in the works. No CDBaby this time around, because they take a flat $4 fee which doesn’t work so well if the EP only costs $5
When you buy it, take a picture of it and send it to me! It’s so cool to actually see people holding their signed copies! See below!
