Tag: music
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My Life My Heart
“On New Year’s Eve I held a light and I held it high…exposing awkward dances…” A few weeks ago, I lent an old blazer of mine to my son who is a senior in high school. When he put it on, I saw the breast pocket was pronounced. I have a habit of putting papers…
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Why the Crickets?
Three weeks ago, I put up a new acoustic album on streaming… “Lost in the Cosmos.” Today, Apple for Artists sent me play stats for the week of Oct. 10-16…0…that is, zero streams on Apple Music. “Crickets,” as they say in the music world. But in its first week, it had 54 streams on Spotify…
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“Lost Album” preview mp3s
Here’s two fun, retro-rock songs from my album to be released on streaming Easter weekend called, “They Still Make Sunsets, Don’t They.” It’s a project I began over ten years ago. Hence the “lost album” description. I love this gold-flake background image for the single cover. In 2013 and 2015 I had a handful of…
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Little chapel, big sound
March 1, 2025 held a great evening in the course of my little life. I was super proud to be a part of Kyle Smith’s album release show at a new all ages venue in south Fort Wayne which he helps run. The bill was K. Edward Smith with full band, Sanchez Agency, and Tom…
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Goshen Theater Again
All the stage is a world, and every time I’m on one, everywhere I’ve ever been is available to me. A year ago, (12/2/23) I played in a rock show at the Goshen Theater. It was 11 years since my feet last touched its boards. At that time, in 2012, the Texarkana Two and I…
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Pod Blog: S3 Ep6 Never Really Over
Here’s a 60 second clip of a reharsal leading up to the recording session for today’s song. This was the first time I had two guests on an episode. My Uncle, Steve Peck and my friend, Brannon Hancock. My Uncle has a nick name for me “The Groove Guy.” It comes from an interaction we…
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Playing for crickets…
And wouldn’t have it any other way. How is it that 2021 feels like last year?..Not almost 4 years ago!? I confess I’ve been so busy launching my podcast and working with gigging bands in these “post-Covid years” that I really have put my songwriting on the back burner, time-wise. But a large piece of…
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Borrowed Violin
When I was 14, as an incoming freshman at Riley High School, I started to use a school viola. It was old (to me.) The varnish was a dull brown. It was big, though, a 17 inch-er. It had a dated alligator skin case, but it had a sound that was both crisp and rich.…
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Baby, One More Shot
Bonus content and commentary to my Podcast episode with Troy Yeager. If you stream the song, you’ll see the art work features a young man in a leather jacket whispering into the ear of a young woman. The story behind the cover: the name of the EP was “Dive Bar Girl,” also the name of…
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Falling Star – AS&AF S3 Ep. 2
Accompanying each episode is a “bonus features” blog entry of fun randomnimity (whatever that is.) Click here for Mike’s Episode. A little more about the Friend… I call him Mike, but a lot of people call him Michael. And like the archangel, Mike’s postivity while drumming has defended my songs time and again from the…
The Music of Tom Adamson 