Alright, I got a little stupid in the intro. But here’s some info on my Wide Awake Project and my attempt at adding to Youtube’s Comedy Week. (Spoiler: I failed in my attempt) lol.
What is the Wide Awake Project?
The idea is simple. I have new songs; I want you to hear the new songs now, instead of waiting around for them a year from now. And if you’re like me, you’re never mad about artists putting out new stuff, no matter how recently they’ve released something else. So why shouldn’t I keep putting out new songs?
That simple idea had never crossed my mind before. I think it’s ingrained in most bands or artists’ brains that there is a certain way to do things in the music business. Which is funny, because most acts that reach levels of good success or notoriety do it by breaking the mold and going a different way than the rest. Not to say that I am branching out into uncharted territory where “no man has gone before,” it’s only personal uncharted territory that had never crossed my mind until this year.
That’s what the Wide Awake Project is for me; waking up to a new way for me to approach making music. I realized that I am an independent artist and absolutely nothing is stopping me from creating and distributing music the way I want to.
This year I have been, and still am, constantly writing new songs, taking them to my producer, picking out the song we think is the best, recording that song, and releasing it a month or so after the last song was released. The only thing that makes me wait so long to release each song is money (of course), and creating album covers, videos, and whatever else I want to go with that song. The name of the game is content. I am giving you as much content with my name on it as you can handle.
There is no set numbers of songs that I am going to record. I am just going to write the best songs I can and bring you the best of the best of what I have created. This plan is going to be added to and changed as the months go on. I am completely open to suggestions and will constantly be testing myself to see if there is a better way to do things.
I am also making weekly vlogs to keep you all updated with how the project is going.
It’s going to be a fun year so stick around and lets see what happens!
- Jeffrey
The band and I played a recent house concert hosted by Cause A Scene Music. I thought this was a great video taken by someone in the audience. Had to post it.
In this video we are performing a mashup to of two of my favorite Talking Heads songs; Road To Nowhere, and Girlfriend is Better. And by two of my favorite, I mean, I have about 15 favorite Talking Heads songs.
I hope the hard core Talking Heads fans can forgive that we changed Girlfriend is Better up a bit.
See ya soon!
Very excited to be showing you all my newest music video for my song, Hard Day’s Work. I wanted to have a video that didn’t necessarily focus on the lyrics, but on the energy of the song. I also wanted to try having a video that I wasn’t in.
My friend, Josh Harrell, of www.NashvilleNonfiction.com, directed this video. He had a cool storyline in mind, so I let him loose on it. I couldn’t be more happy with how it turned out!
Stay tuned as always, as my next single, Carry You, will release at the end of this month.
Vanity and Twitter
I had a great time at my annual Brownsburg, IN home show and songwriter’s contest this past week! I always have a blast performing at my Alma Mater, and we had a great turn out this year.
All of the high school songwriters were killer. Congrats to The Breakers for being this years winners. They will be opening for my band and I on June 9th, at the Brownsburg Parks Summer Concert Series. Rocking out in the sun!
I also asked the crowd to tag me via twitter in any pics they took of me and/or the band. I was going to pic my favorite five pics and give those people mp3’s of my new song, Carry You, releasing at the end of May. However, I liked too many of the pics so there are more than five winners! I hope you all will forgive me for this. Below are my choices in no particular order.
@BenedictSavanna took a great pic using instagram with Ms. Kristen Rogers (an amazing singer) in the background.
@GrandeKatie got all fancy by using Brownsburg High School colors to show a few of the pics she took.
@ayesuzaay caught me trying to be deep on stage.
I really dug this one from @HaleyCheyy.
@JasemAlhaidah grabbed a great shot of the whole band!
I loved this little montage made by @JessiWentz
@MadisonLesko caught me posing at just the right momment. lol.
And finally, @MrCoachK15 took a great pic with the front of the crowd.
@CarlyButler also had some great shots. You can see them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlybutler/sets/72157633277872039/with/8662107633/
Thanks so much to everyone who submitted a picture. I’ll see you all in June!
