February 2012
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January 2012
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The power of the internet.
Rosie and Me is a great, thoughtful, beautiful group from Brazil. They write songs that put me to sleep, songs that keep me awake and songs that make me grab my guitar and get better.
I met Rosanne through Soundcloud, which I had just jumped on a the time because I heard of it through a friend and thought I should test it out. I threw a few tracks up there, not...
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September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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John Mayer at Berklee →
A great read, something that I have been thinking about a lot as I write and record this next round of songs.
June 2011
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Developing Your Creative Practice: Tips from Brian... →
“The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times. It’s the equivalent of the dream time, in your daily life, times when things get sorted out and reshuffled. If you’re constantly awake work-wise you don’t allow that to happen. One of the reasons I have...
May 2011
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Free Album?
That’s right - my EP Atlantic/Pacific is now available for “name your price” on Bandcamp. Go ahead, take it, I want you to have it!
http://gregthomas.bandcamp.com/album/atlantic-pacific
Spreadin’ the music.
Greg
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Working & Playing
As I sit down to work on some music I am thinking about how it is 10:30 and I am just now getting to what I care about most, which is working on music. I got up at 8:45am, so I’ve spent the rest of my day at a desk at work, commuting, eating dinner, working out and talking with my roommate.
For a second this afternoon I started get frustrated and was thinking that I shouldn’t have to...
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What Simon savors most about [baseball] are the line drives. ‘That...
– Paul Simon on Songwriting
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Pete, on Tetris as a metaphor for life
“So you never really ‘win’ - no matter who you are or how well you play, the end is always the same. You never know what pieces you’re going to get, and all you can do is find the best place for that piece at that time. The pieces just keep falling, and as it goes on they just fall faster and faster, and your options for each become more and more limited. Sometimes,...
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Jeff Tweedy - The Lonely 1
When Lauren was in town last week, she requested that I learn “The Lonely 1” by Jeff Tweedy, and made me promise I would play it before she went back to Australia. So, here’s the perfomance, recorded by Lauren herself.
April 2011
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You’ve heard plenty of great, great singers that leave you cold,” she said....
– Rosanne Cash from the NYT article To Tug Hearts, Music First Must Tickle the Neurons
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