2021 50/90 Challenge, song #2. I started this at midnight on July 4, 2021. The very minute the 50/90 challenge started. I'm 90% sure I've used almost exactly the same melody before, and I'm 99.999% sure I've used exactly the same guitar and…

And the 2021 50/90 Challenge is underway. One down, 49 to go. This one came quick and easy, which probably means I've written this entire song already but who cares. I like the chorus. I sing an arpeggio. It's almost like I took two years…

I liked this one from the very start. It was the second song I started working on this February, and it has stuck with me more than any of the others. It's kinda... swampy... nice little mid tempo groove. The bass isn't cutting through the…

This one started out life as a guitar/drums groove that I worked on for the National Solo Album Month back in November. It’s not the reason I decided to break my RPM Challenge Must Be Written in February rule, but it could have been. The lyrics…

A few years ago I was working on a 50/90 and I was stuck for lyrics. While hunting for ideas I Googled “New England folk tales” and found a few stories that I was able to use as a loose idea for a song lyric. I was trying to write lyrics for this…

You know, 50/90 starts in a week. I probably should not be wasting new song ideas now when I could wait a week and have them count toward the fifty songs. Oh well. Written on Saturday. Recorded on Saturday and Sunday. Mixed before work…

You know, 50/90 starts in a week. I probably should not be wasting new song ideas now when I could wait a week and have them count toward the fifty songs. Oh well. Written on Saturday. Recorded on Saturday and Sunday. Mixed before work…

This is the result of a stunning lack of rehearsing. I write these little songs as I am recording them and as a result there is no actual rehearsing of anything involved. I do it all on the spot. I really enjoy that process but sometimes…

The good folks at the RPM Challenge came up with a year round game for us to play. Record Every Month. One song each month. I'm game, but I don't think I'll stick to just one. I was trying to get 10 done in March 2021 but here I am on the…

The RPM Challenge site's Record Every Month Challenge has an entry for June. This one started out in May but it was just the chords from the chorus in the little music memo file on my iPhone. It didn't actually become a song until June. It…