Shows and Sickness...

Hey all, so as you can probably figure out, I didn't get a song finished this week. Things have been pretty crazy lately around here. I had a show in Portland this last Thursday at the Camellia Lounge, which was fun cause I got to open for this band called Two Step Slumber. Over the course of the week though I became more and more sick. Also, the church that I'm the worship pastor at changed venues this week so we had plenty of details to work out there. All in All it's been a crazy week and I didn't have as much time to write as I would have liked. I'll do my best to be back on for next week. Here are some pictures to tide you over.

Love you guys,

Casey

Song of the Week - 09.19.08 I will be

I was pretty close this week to not posting a song. I tried all week to write and every time I sat down at the piano or with the guitar I just couldn't do it. I felt pretty distracted all week. Lauren and I were both kind of sick and things just got busy. It wasn't till late last night/early this morning that the music started to come. The song itself must have switched between 5 or so different keys before I settled into this one. It also changed tempo a few times. It started out fast but it just didn't sing right that way.
The song it self I think is really another statement of the war that goes on inside my brain. The battle between needing other people and being an introvert. I think we all have our defense mechanisms where when we get tired or get our feelings hurt or feel threaten we do what feels natural to us. For me that's shutting down, not letting anyone around me in including God. I get lost in my own thoughts and it's sometimes hard to get out. The chorus in this song for me really feels like a desperate prayer. It's me just asking God to remind me that the he sees something more then I see and that he believes in me because he is good and see's what I truly am.
Love you guys, thanks for going through all this with me. If you wanted to hear other songs of the week push the far right arrow and it should skip to past song.

Peace,
Casey

House Keeping / Great Song

Hey, Just wanted to give a little explanation with blog amp. If you want to listen to past songs, just click on the far right arrows and it will take you to previous songs. All the songs of the week should be labeled with the date. There's some more hip hop stuff on there also. Just thought I'd let you know.
Also, I wish I would have written this song. To bad for me.

Song of the Week 09.10.08

Alright, Back to normal...

This weeks song is called Great lakes. I have to confess I've been working on this one for a little longer then a week. I guess sometimes it just takes me a little longer to know what the songs about. I originally started writing this song because I felt like I was in a slump where all I was writing was blue-grassy folk songs. I wanted to write something a little more straight and poppy. The main Idea of the song is that a lot of the time we as humans get so busy in our day to day lives that we forget about the things that we really love and long for. I think we have good intentions but we end up making all sorts of plans to write that book, go back to school or take that chance with music and before you know it we've settled for a life that is so much less then we ever dreamed of. I don't want to be a victim of my own good intentions. I want to know what I was made for. I think that the author of the book Walden said it best.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854

Song of the Week - Side Project

Alright, back to work. This weeks song comes from a little side project that I am doing with some friends of mine down in LA. It's obviously not my normal sound but hip hop is closer to my heart then one would thing. Growing up I listened to a lot of hip hop, blues and soul and when I first learned to play guitar I was mostly playing the blues with my dad. I'm not really sure how I got into it but all through middle school and most of High School I listened to hard core gangsta rap. You know like NWA and EAZY-E and through the years I have held a high appreciation for good hip-hop.
This project has been a lot of fun so far because it's really making me use a side of my brian that I'm not used to. I usually spend most of my time writeing melodies and lyrics but now I'm forced to think in beats and hooks. Don't worry, next week I'll be back to normal, I just watned to share with you what I'm up to. I love ya, It's good to be back.

Casey