Get "Jealous"

"Jealous" has really been kind to me. Djon showed the song to some of his other contacts, one is going to pitch it to be in a Fox TV movie! Another contact is The Killers first lawyer, and to hear that he liked my sound on that sound is honestly a pretty sweet feeling! :]
I am still trying to figure out how to post songs online to let you hear it...

Brazos River Band

Well! My country band, the Brazos River Band, has a gig out in Primm in May! That's cool! And the venue looks pretty sweet too. http://www.primmvalleyresorts.com/enter_whiskeyshowroom.html
I am excited.

Things are really starting to take off.

Chink in the Wall?!

Well, what do you know, there is a hole in the wall I keep singing to!!

Bill came home today, sat me down on the couch, took both my hands, and with a very serious look in his eyes, said he had news about what the Track Kingz didn't like about my version of "Grown Man." I was pitchy. Not a surprise, there were a few spots I had started to notice too after listening to the song a few more times. I can work with that though...

But he continued: "So they want you to come to their studio and re-record it!"

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Wow. yeah, I was a little stunned. I really didn't know what to say or think! Really?! What does this all mean?!

Well, I know enough to know that second chances like this do not happen often if ever at all in this industry, so I will live it up.

I probably won't be recording with them for a week or so, and don't have any solid details yet, but will keep you all posted ;]

I am really excited and feel uniquely blessed. I guess God may build a wall in some places on the path of your life, but will provide some great chinks through which you can view and experience some pretty amazing things. And who knows but this could be the gate onto a different pathway I never dreamed I'd get to travel.

I am glad that I got shot down the first time. Really, I am. It helped me realize that I am ok without this in my life. So whatever happens, and no matter what comes of any of this, I am still going to be just fine. :]

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Singing to the Wall

Recently I helped my rapper friend Djon with an amazing song he was working on. I helped write the hook (the chorus) and sang that part. He wrote all the verses and rapped them. The music was sent to him by the grammy award winning, quite famous in the rap/r&b industry Track Kingz and it rocked! It's called "Jealous". Well, once we finally got it all finished, we sent the Track Kingz a copy to let them hear what we had done with their beat. They were highly impressed! SO impressed in fact, especially with MY voice, that they asked if they could send me another song for me to sing almost like an audition. If they liked what they heard there too, then they wanted me to go on TOUR with them: ten cities internationally!! UK, Germany, Japan to name a few!! Oh this would be a HUGH break!!

So Djon helped me and did the recording and coached me on singing for this new genre. (I have been singing in a country band for the past year and haven't really sung much r&b/pop.) We worked long hours and it took quite a while since the song they wanted was so intricate and took up 84 tracks in Cubase (the sound recording software program). The song is called "Grown Man".

Well, we finally finished the song, sent it off and waited.

It didn't take too long, a day or two, and Djon got a text from the Track Kingz saying they didn't like it. That's it. Not much more to go on. No real reason, guess they just changed their minds. pity.

Djon says ya gotta have a thick skin and let things like that roll off ya, cause things can change so quickly in this business. He knows. He had 2 or 3 songs placed in the new Rocky movie, but last minute, all were pulled except one, "Get Up." It's a great song! When you see the movie, pay attention for that song. That's my friend Djon!

So anyway, this big opportunity came and went and now here I am singing to a quiet wall, all the hype and illusions of audiences gone.

I will continue to sing and see what other chinks I can find in my wall to sing through and maybe someone on the other side will listen a little more closely. :]