When I was younger, I made a run on the Nashville Music Business, specifically singing and writing music.
But I was employed by a corporation to create sales of medical products, market those products, and train people throughout the world.
Just about the time I was making inroads into the music business, Andreas Gruentzig invented a procedure called Angioplasty and I was given the responsibility to train physicians and their staffs in the technique.
While an exciting period in my life, it became imperative to place my total focus on the training, marketing, and sales of this new technology; and place my music interests on yet another back burner.
Now I'm older and have the time to pursue my passion for entertaining, with the time now to do it the right way.
And so I shall.
Stay tuned because I intend to become an overnight entertainment success, and it only took me 60 years to get to this point in time, from the first time I picked up a guitar that actually could be played.
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My "Unplugged" Practice Sessions
There's nothing more transparent than a singer and/or musician, making music without back a back up band. It's raw and it's what has to be done as a repertoire is built. If you're recording it for playback you'll hear yourself not quiet reaching the note intended, a missing chord, a finger scrapping the string of an instrument or deadening the sound of the next string over, or instrument just slightly out of tune.
There is no where to hide and you know it immediately when you've just blown a perfectly good song, but it's the training ground where you practice the songs you'll choose to sing in public or writing a song and noting how the words flow and the impact of the verses and chorus (the hook that everyone who hears it will feel comfortable enough with, to sing along).
It's the last step, at least for me, before going to a recording studio or performing with live people listening.
The songs below are being done "Unplugged" during practice! I've recorded them and added just a little reverb or sound effects in the comfort of where ever I might be sitting at the time, using my computer.
It's a love affair I've had most of my life; just my guitar and me and hopefully a song that I can sing and present to audiences. They either become a part of my repertoire or not (if my wife says no, No It Is, and if I'm not comfortable with the song, I find others which do sound good enough for entertaining.
These are a few out of several hundred songs I've learned and sing. I hope you enjoy them. As they say in Texas, they are nekked!
