Alabama

Music! Food! Heat! Stuff! Things!

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Exclamation points! Didn’t have a catchier title!

First off, thanks to John Parnell for including my friend Anson and me in The OBS Show, combined episode 23/24! He stopped by Kru last Thursday and captured some live music before heading back to Birmingham and capturing more live music from Disincentive, Power Sink, and Cam Girl. (Thanks, John!)

Aaaaaand, Saturday’s Hilltop Art Festival was so much fun! I got to see a bunch of people, lots of amazing art, got a couple of plants, played some #sadboi songs, listened to more music, and enjoyed some good food and drink. (Thanks to the Hilltop Howlers for making that event happen!) And that led to Sunday, when the Funky Forte food truck added a new dish to their weekend brunch menu called “The Carples.” (Today marks 90 days of switching to a vegetarian diet. So far, so good… especially with delicious options like this!)

And at some point during all of this, I managed to stop by Leroy for a beverage (and meeting) and found out they had some cocktail that has ghost pepper drops in it. So of course, I had to at least try the spicy part, right?! And I asked Jeff McKinney to document it for me as Sean Golson observes with a bewildered WTF look. (You might know Sean and Jeff as the main protagonist and antagonist in the Towering Above music video trilogy.)

Also… here’s a list of upcoming shows. Hope to see you soon!

June 2 at Shagnasty’s Grubbery and Pour House in Huntsville, AL (Towering Above, Forest Haven, Jimmy Speed, and Road to Ruin)

June 8 at Dothan DanceClub in Dothan, AL w/ Anson and Nervis

June 10 at Common Bond Brewers in Montgomery, AL w/ Anson

June 20 at the Cloverdale Playhouse in Montgomery, AL w/ Lara Oshon and Stephen Bray (Guitar Pull)

July 14 at Goat Haus Biergarten in Montgomery, AL (details coming soon)

July 15 at the Alabama Jubilee in Birmingham, AL (details coming soon)

July 22 in Atlanta (details coming soon)

Thanks for being awesome! Much love to you. (Psst… subscribe to my YouTube channel, and also to the blog… thanks!)

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May 2023 Guitar Pull photos and show info!

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Photos from last night’s Guitar Pull at the Cloverdale Playhouse are up on my Facebook page. See the full gallery here.

And in other news, I’ve got some shows coming up, and I would love to see you in attendance! So mark your calendar, and come hang out!

May 18 at Kru in Montgomery, AL w/ Anson

May 20 at Hilltop Public House in Montgomery, AL for the Hilltop Art Festival put on by the Hilltop Howlers

June 2 at Shagnasty’s Grubbery and Pour House in Huntsville, AL (Towering Above, Forest Haven, Jimmy Speed, and Road to Ruin)

June 8 at Dothan DanceClub in Dothan, AL w/ Anson and Nervis

June 10 in Montgomery, AL w/ Anson (location and details coming soon)

June 20 at the Cloverdale Playhouse in Montgomery, AL w/ Lara Oshon and Stephen Bray (Guitar Pull)

July 14 at Goat Haus Biergarten in Montgomery, AL (details coming soon)

July 15 at the Alabama Jubilee in Birmingham, AL (details coming soon)

July 22 in Atlanta (details coming soon)

So yeah, make plans to come hang out!

Also, I’m on Spotify, Apple Music, etc., and I have a YouTube channel, so please take a listen, follow, subscribe, all that stuff.

Thanks for visiting my website, reading, listening, supporting, and loving. You are appreciated.

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Este Sábado!

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Yes, I’m trying to learn Spanish on Duolingo. Yes, there’s a show this Saturday. Those two things may not be directly related, but through this blog post, I guess they are now.

This Saturday (May 6, 2023)!

Towering Above (loud… rock… fun… we don’t know what our style is.)

Forest Haven (metal!)

The Bishop Box Test (I’ve only heard one song so far, but I got a grunge rock vibe from it; looking forward to seeing them.)

Location: The Sanctuary in Montgomery, AL

Facebook event is here.

Here’s a video of me saying a lot of what I just typed out…

And… here’s a video of Towering Above playing at Shagnasty’s Grubbery and Pour House in Huntsville:

Hope to see you this Saturday!

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Upcoming show announcements!

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Hey! Get those calendars out and plan to come hang out! I’d love to see ya!

May 6 at the Sanctuary (Montgomery, AL) – Towering Above, Forest Haven, The Bishop Box Test

May 18 at Kru (Montgomery, AL) – Acoustic show featuring me and Anson (from V8 Death Car and Haploid)

June 8 at Dothan DanceClub (Dothan, AL) – Acoustic show featuring me, Anson, and Nervis

More shows are in the works, so updates will be coming soon.

Many thanks to Chris Eckels for helping make stuff happen! Many thanks to Forest Haven for being awesome! Looking forward to meeting and sharing the stage with The Bishop Box Test! (I keep typing “text” instead of “test” and having to correct it. lol.) Many thanks to both Anson and Nervis for letting me join in the #sadboi acoustic fun times! Many thanks to Gloria Aitken for the incredible May 6 flier!

I probably missed someone (or a few people) in the above thank you list (I’m always paranoid about such things) but I am very grateful for the incredible friends and musicians and supporters and loving people in my sphere. For real. Much love.

Thanks for reading, listening, and being awesome!

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‘The Fiction of Closure’ (live version) video

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Hey! Hi! Hello! Hola! Good morning/afternoon/evening/whenever you’re seeing this!

So… late last month, I announced that I’ve got a new EP coming out March 10 called Everyone Is a Moon. Like the rest of my studio albums, I layered things in the studio – guitars, vocals, piano, etc., but my live show is just me and a guitar. So I wanted to do something different this time and release some live versions in advance of the studio versions.

The first track on Everyone Is a Moon is called “The Fiction of Closure,” and the live version is now on YouTube.

I’ll be performing at Goat Haus Biergarten in downtown Montgomery on March 10 for the EP release show. Here’s a link to the Facebook event. I hope you can make it out that night!

Also, there’s a new shirt available in my online merch store with the EP cover art on it.

That’s all for now. Thanks for reading, listening, watching, supporting, loving, and being the most authentic version of you that you can be. (The world needs you to be you.) Much love.

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‘Lake City Quiet Pills’ video and ‘Coffee with Friends’ on Amazon

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I should have already posted this stuff… Oops… Got sidetracked with other stuff… So anyway…

The short film Coffee with Friends, directed by Jimmie and Autumn Rogers, can be seen on Amazon as part of a horror compilation called Franny Kruugerr presents Scary Stories.

The film currently has 17 film festival wins and 1 nomination on IMDb. In this one, I play a serial killer (big surprise, right?) named Dennis.

In other news, the music video for the song “Lake City Quiet Pills” by Towering Above was also released recently. Produced by Terrible Master Films, the video includes live footage and studio footage from when we were at Headless Dinosaur Recording working on The Bleak.

I think that’s all for now… More Everyone Is a Moon news will be coming soon…

Thanks for reading, watching, listening, etc. Much love!

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Everyone Is a Moon

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Hi! On Friday, March 10, 2023, I will be releasing a new 4-song EP titled Everyone Is a Moon.

Track listing:

  1. The Fiction of Closure
  2. Nice to Be Needed
  3. Moonbeams
  4. A Darkness Follows

Originally this was going to be the title for my last album, but Carry the Wounds felt more appropriate for that one. These four songs were originally going to be on that album as well, but some newer ones, again, felt more appropriate for that release.

For anyone wondering, the title comes from a Mark Twain quote:

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

To me, that quote speaks to the essence of authenticity. I have a history of coming across as guarded, even when I wasn’t trying to be. So the past eight-ish years or so, I have made conscious efforts to be more vulnerable and live my authenticity. And one thing I can say – even while coming across as guarded in relationships or social situations, my music has always explored deeply personal emotions. That “dark side,” as Mark Twain called it, has been there, out in public, just in musical form.

Everyone Is a Moon will be on all major streaming platforms March 10.

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A re-release, of sorts, to end the year

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I know my last post read “I don’t know if I’ll have another post to share before the new year or not,” but surprise! Here’s another!

Back in 2013, a month before the release of my third solo album Ghost of a Town, I released a little EP to help promote it titled Ghost​.​Ocean​.​Sirens. It was available exclusively on a website called NoiseTrade, but at some point it seems they were bought out by Paste Magazine, and I guess they deleted everything by little unknown artists like myself [shrug emoji vibes].

So… I was able to locate the cover art (at the appropriate size, that is) and the live tracks in .wav form and have uploaded them to Bandcamp.

So here they are for your listening enjoyment (or non-enjoyment since my songs are sad and all…) 🙂

With that being said, thank you for reading, listening, supporting, and just being the all-around magical, loving person that you undoubtedly are. I hope you have a wonderful day and a happy new year! Much love.

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