i am currently out on the road playing guitar for Aware/Columbia artist mat kearney opening for the band Keane. you can checkout mat kearneys website MATKEARNEY.COM and check out his tourblog to see what I/we have been up to lately.
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hello! - March 20, 2009
hello everyone! i know it has been a while since the last update but i am still alive! ha. i have been pretty busy lately and i have slacked off a bit on the journaling...and for that i am sorry. we are finally starting to thaw out after a bitterly cold winter up here in minnesota and it is so nice to see the sun again! :) a while back i got an e-mail from a film director in the UK named Rob Brown who liked the song "Hurricane" and he thought that clips from one of his films would be great to use as a music video for the song. i thought that could be a cool idea. here is the video that he put together. enjoy! let me know what you think about it.
2008 was a year full of trials and triumphs. almost a year to the day on a cold dark morning in january i packed my family up in a rental van with a bunch of guitars and drove down to nashville to make my first record. i had no idea what the year would bring or how everything would work out. looking back now the struggles seem small and the victories sweet. i put the record on today and gave it a listen and i think we succeeded in making the record we sought out to make...a record of simple and honest songs played by people who enjoy making music with each other. this may be the end of yet another year but it is only the beginning. i want to take this time to thank all my dear friends in nashville, and minneapolis for the all the inspiration, encouragement, support and for making my family's life so sweet...there are too many to name...you know who you are!...it blows me away to have friends like you! paul, will, matt, and cason, thank you for giving your time and for pouring your hearts into the making of Darling, Maybe Someday! thank you to everyone who came out to shows and supported my music this past year...it means SO SO much! i will be doing more shows in the new year and putting a bunch of new songs into the rotation. last but certainly not least i want to thank my family for truly making this past year so sweet...i don't know what i what do with out you...every morning i wake up and even the mundane and routine seem to present new and exciting opportunities. on that note i want to leave you with a beautiful poem by Ted Kooser.
"If you can awaken
inside the familiar
and discover it new
you need never
leave home."
may all of you in this new year awaken inside the familiar and discover it new in all it's sweetness....Happy New Year!