Hey!
Over the past fifty years, I've written over 200 songs. When I play live, I mostly play a lot of blues, country, and folk. My song writing is mostly in the old-style American-rootsy story-telling tradition - not jazz, classic rock, punk, hip-hop, or electronica. No looping, sampling, or midi.
I've never tried to sell a song. But, now that I'm retired, some side cash would come in handy. So I'm thinking of putting a few of them onto a well-packaged CD to send around.
Even though I do gig occasionally, I'm not a big instrumentalist, not a recording engineer, and certainly not a singer. So finding eight or ten that anyone would actually like to listen to is tough. If I can't reach critical mass, I'll spend the money I've set aside for the project on something else - maybe a nice new guitar.
But I haven't given up yet. Here are fourteen tunes that I made multi-tracking on a Tascam: The Outcasts
So if you like Americana, how about listening to at least ten seconds of each song and tell me what you think. Are there any that are CD-worthy? Are there any that need just a little more work? Are there any that you would probably not include?
You should know that:
Thanks!
Over the past fifty years, I've written over 200 songs. When I play live, I mostly play a lot of blues, country, and folk. My song writing is mostly in the old-style American-rootsy story-telling tradition - not jazz, classic rock, punk, hip-hop, or electronica. No looping, sampling, or midi.
I've never tried to sell a song. But, now that I'm retired, some side cash would come in handy. So I'm thinking of putting a few of them onto a well-packaged CD to send around.
Even though I do gig occasionally, I'm not a big instrumentalist, not a recording engineer, and certainly not a singer. So finding eight or ten that anyone would actually like to listen to is tough. If I can't reach critical mass, I'll spend the money I've set aside for the project on something else - maybe a nice new guitar.
But I haven't given up yet. Here are fourteen tunes that I made multi-tracking on a Tascam: The Outcasts
So if you like Americana, how about listening to at least ten seconds of each song and tell me what you think. Are there any that are CD-worthy? Are there any that need just a little more work? Are there any that you would probably not include?
You should know that:
- it's mainly the sound quality of what you hear that I'm concerned with - the playing, singing, recording and mixing. I'm too close to them to be objective and don't have any friends or family who would tell me anything they think I don't want to hear.
- I'd rather dump the project and spend my music budget on new gear than waste money on a go-nowhere CD project. So I won't be crushed if you advise me to forget the CD and go for the new-guitar consolation prize instead.
- Leon Fullerton is the pen name I use for copyrighting music. The voice and the instruments are all me.
- you can find the lyrics and back stories to each song if you follow the links next to each MP3.
- there are about a hundred other songs scattered throughout the website. If you happen to bump into one that would work better on my hypothetical CD, I'd love to know about it. As I say, I can't be objective. I like all of 'em!
- I'd rather dump the project and spend my music budget on new gear than waste money on a go-nowhere CD project. So I won't be crushed if you advise me to forget the CD and go for the new-guitar consolation prize instead.
- Leon Fullerton is the pen name I use for copyrighting music. The voice and the instruments are all me.
- you can find the lyrics and back stories to each song if you follow the links next to each MP3.
- there are about a hundred other songs scattered throughout the website. If you happen to bump into one that would work better on my hypothetical CD, I'd love to know about it. As I say, I can't be objective. I like all of 'em!
Thanks!
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