HeyJaredRoad Noise
Tips for touring artists, songwriting discussions, art exploration, outdoor photography, and various behind the scenes this and thats. All shared from a traveling troubadour inspired by nature and adventure.
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Musing - Looking Towards (opens the original)
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The first song that I am re-doing a musing of. I will of course keep writing new songs, but I think enough alone time has passed by for many of these tunes while my attention has been placed elsewhere. It’s time to revisit songs and see how playing them has changed and what the song might mean to now.(The original musing for this tune is here).The full musing is at https://www.bengagemusic.com/musings/looking-towards2<div class="you
Musing - Invest Your Son (opens the original)
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Happy Tuesday, here’s a musing from a song I wrote with veteran Randy Curtnar back in May as part of Project DREW. The full musing is at https://www.bengagemusic.com/musings/invest-your-sonMusingI have talked about Project DREW before in these musings, and the short of it is that it’s a pairing of a songwriter and a veteran. We meet on a Saturday morning, the veteran shares their story with the songwriter, a
Sept Noise (opens the original)
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Ok, sorry for the click bait… there isn’t actually any pumpkin spice in this email. I’m just settling back into OH after a whirlwind of a tour to the PNW and back. What a great run of shows, and for the new folks that I’ve met and added to the newsletter, thank you for being here! (Ask anyone else and you’ll find that I am charming, funny, handsome, gentle, and make a mean omelette). There is a lot going on in my little artistic slice of the world, so let’s get into it. This newsletter:Music New
Musing - Sweet Susannah (opens the original)
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Happy Tuesday, here’s a little something to dig into during your lunch break (take a longer one, life is short enough). The full musing is at https://www.bengagemusic.com/musings/sweet-susannahMusingMy current disposition seems to be leaning less towards specific song talk and more towards general ranting, so rant we shall.Let’s talk about how lovely it is to spend time writing songs. I feel this is a timely song in a sense because I t
Aug Noise (opens the original)
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There is a lot in the newsletter. Hop around how you see fit. Thank you for taking the time to see what’s going on in my world that I want to share with you. I know this email is right next to work pesters, equally annoying shopping deals, and who knows what else. So hopefully you can fall into this space for a bit, look at some nice pictures, listen to some music, and take some deep breaths. Once I hit send on this, I’m going to go outside and start a hack job of trying to build a storage bench
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