The Flood

Unless you live in the Nashville area, chances are you haven't heard about "The Flood" that we just experienced. The media didn't seem all that concerned about it until several days after the fact.

We were fortunate. Other than our driveway being washed out in parts, which can be replaced, we were OK. Some friends of ours were not as lucky and they experienced some major damage to their home.

Here's a couple of links to some videos that I made on my cell phone of our driveway as the flood was going on.

Link One

Link Two

Signed six tracks to an Exclusive library deal

Once again, I have to thank TAXI for providing me with another deal. It's with an established library on the East coast.

I ended up writing 6 tracks for this deal. A couple of them were hard rock tracks that I typically write. One of them was more of a singer-songwriter track that I've recently started writing more of thanks to another deal that I have.

But the other three were brand new genres for me: Spy music and Sci-Fi. The spy track was an absolute blast to write. It was a bit challenging as I'm not accustomed to writing horn parts but I eventually got it down. And the sci-fi tracks were fun to write too. They felt more like writing sound design than actual 'music' in the traditional sense of the word.

Hope this turns into a great relationship with the library and opens the door to more placements down the road.

Back in the swing of things

Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joiseyshowaa/ / CC BY-SA 2.0

I knew it had been awhile since I last posted, but until I actually looked at my site, I didn't realize it had been almost a month! Yikes! Gotta say that the blog contest I participated in definitely helped me post on a more frequent basis.

One reason for my lack of posts is that March is the height of the college basketball season here in the States and I end up spending quite a bit of time following my favorite team, the Kentucky Wildcats. I really thought we were going to bring home Championship #8 this year but alas, that didn't happen. We had our worst shooting night of the season against a team that was having one of their best and in a one-and-done type tournament, that usually spells disaster for you. But regardless, I was very proud of our team this year. I can't remember when I ever had so much fun watching the team play but it was probably the '95-96 season, ie. Championship #6, and the first one that I could remember. I was only 4 when they won #5 so I don't remember that one. But I can tell you exactly where I was at when we won #6 (and #7) :-) Earlier tonight several of the players announced that they would be entering the NBA draft so it looks like next year's team is going to be a brand new group of players. Let the fun begin!

Pop-Punk track placed

I just got off the phone with a producer of a Christian TV show called World Impact and it looks like they're going to use one of my pop-punk instrumental tracks, "The Sun Will Shine," for an episode of their show.

The show will be airing later in the summer and I should hopefully have a link to the episode once it's aired. I'll post more details as they come available.

UPDATE: I've embedded the episode below or you can view it at the following link: http://vimeo.com/11629438

My track goes from 4:10 - 4:45.


Getting Past Your Grief - Full Show from World Impact TV on Vimeo.

Placement on TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras

I was going through my ASCAP statement and noticed that I had a placement on an episode of TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras. This was a result of a forward from TAXI that turned into a deal.

I've included the clip below. My track is used from the 4:35-4:55 section. Or you can view it at this link where it's already cued up for you :-)