Okay, there’s no Podcast on this entry, just a bit of early invite, you see, today the CD was finally posted at BuyMusicDirect.com. You can now buy the With A Voice Like This Christmas EP. So the Official Release Podcast Party is tomorrow night recorded live on TalkShoe.com. That’s Friday, January 4 at 7:00 pm CT (Saturday, 5 January at 01:00 GMT). come and join the festivities, won’t you?
Episode 034 – Day 43 – The Amazing Growing Blog Entry
12:45pm Well, as promised, I’m making this entry from the road on my way to Luxemburg, WI to play at the Northbrook Country Club tonight.
I’m starting to see the results of some of timing of the project and how some of my choices are working out. 2:27 pm Out of the six songs I’ve recorded, three are getting ‘airplay’ on podcasts, with Deck the Halls being the most played, followed by both We Three Kings and The Coventry Carol. 3:05 pm I thought that We Three Kings would have been the one to be played the most, but it really doesn’t make much difference which song is being played the most as long as they’re being played, right? And the fact that half of the songs that are available are being played means that the songs are appealing to a wide variety of tastes, which is a great thing. And I get feedback, like Molly’s comment on the podcast. you just can’t beat good planning.
Podcasts that played my music this week:
CaffiNation – Dec 13, CaffiNation 189 – Deck the Halls
Ikthuscast – Dec 13, Ikthuscast 39 – The Coventry Carol
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Episode 030 – Day 39 – Weekend Wrap Up
In this episode:
Episode 30 celebration, This week in a lettuce wrap, changes made to the website, addition of an About page, new weekly feature, the past couple day’s gigs, Guerrilla updates and the upcoming week’s schedule, Comments from the Podcast Gallery.
This Week’s I have‘s
- An About page for the website
- Another song on Podsafe Music Network and BuyMusicDirect.com, bring the total to six, half way there
- A good idea of what I’m going to do with the section of I Saw Three Ships that has the ambient noise in it
- A complete version of the Wassail song
- A great idea for I saw Three Ships
- A couple of great gigs coming up
- The last few songs on their way
- The second usage of my music on a podcast because of the Podsafe Music Network
- Released Deck the Halls at Podsafe Music Network [EDIT: subdomain no longer exists] and BuyMusicDirect.com [EDIT: site no longer exists]
- Ordered the last four songs from pdinfo.com for the CD
- Had to switch one of the four songs for the CD because it wasn’t available for purchase
- A cool caroling gig this Saturday night, opening for Carnie and Wendy Wilson, of Wilson Phillips fame
- I have my final four songs for the album and will order them tomorrow
- A completed copy of The Coventry Carol to be put out on PMN and BuyMusicDirect.com
- An almost completed other carol (I’m not spoiling the surprise on the Podcast)
- An almost complete copy of the Coventry Carol ready to upload
- My music being played on The Indigo Room tonight (Monday)
Podcasts that played my music this week:
Ed’s Mixed Bag [EDIT: show is no longer found online] – Dec 8, Jam and Jazz – Show #113 – Deck The Halls
The Indigo Room: Creating Our Reality – Dec 7, Episode 55 – A Round for the Holidays
Cultural Soup – Dec 6, Episode 94 – The Coventry Carol
Ikthuscast [Edit: site no longer exists] – Dec 6, Ikthuscast 37 – Deck The Halls
The Indigo Room: Creating Our Reality – Dec 3, Episode 54 – Christmas Angel
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Episode 024 – Day 32 – Weekend Wrapup
Topics for this episode of With A Voice Like This:
Marketing my music, Why SellMusicDirect.com is such a good fit for me and this project, Where you can find my music, increase of Site Traffic due to StumbleUpon.com, Country comparison of site hits, One last playing of We Three Kings can Comments From the Podcast Gallery.
Links from the show:
SellMusicDirect.com – The artist’s interface for creating a CD project
BuyMusicDirect.com – The Consumer side of the CD project
My profile on the Podsafe Music Network – Where you can hear my music and use it if you’re a Podcaster
StumbleUpon.com – a Social bookmarking website
I have
- A new badge to link directly to the search results of my name at BuyMusicDirect.com
- An exponential increase of website traffic due to StumbleUpon.com
- Been dugg on Digg.com (a personal Hall of Fame moment)
- Music available for purchase online
- The finished copy of We Three Kings
- Posted the copy on the Podsafe Music Network
- The first verse done of We Three Kings and will probably have it completed for tomorrow night’s update.
- My PD copyrighted copies of 8 songs
- A start on We Three Kings and Coventry Carol
- A great gig tonight (Wednesday)
- Eight (8) Public Domain copyright songs on their way to me, should arrive tomorrow
- A poll to let my listeners/readers/Podcast Gallery help decide what will go on the album
- A list of the rest of my music to choose from
- The ability to poll and see if there are specific songs people would like to see on the CD
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Episode 023 – Day 30 – With A Voice Like This Who Needs Instruments?
On this episode of With A Voice Like This:
A Poll update, Making the choice to not let things affect you, heavy weights and dishware, Debuting We Three Kings in its finished form, talking about how I did what I did with it, Releasing it on the Podsafe Music Network, Comments from the Podcast Gallery (Where do you think I came up with the title of this blog entry, hmmmmm?) and News about this project and where it goes from here.
I have
- The finished copy of We Three Kings
- Posted the copy on the Podsafe Music Network
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Episode 022 – Day 29 – More Kings Than You Can Shake a Stick At
On this episode of With A Voice Like This:
Update on the voting, We Three Kings… the first verse and working through how I got to the point of the getting that done, from a musical perspective and where I’m heading with the rest of the song, Comments from the Podcast Gallery.
I have:
- THe first verse done of We Three Kings and will probably have it completed for tomorrow night’s update.
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Episode 019 – Day 26 – Copyrights, Sonny Bono and Public Domain
Who would have thought Sonny Bono would have anything to do with my Christmas CD? Not me. Topics included: Copyrights, Public Domain and Royalty Free Music and how they are related and affect each other, How long it takes for a song to age to the point it’s in the Public Domain and Comments from the Podcast Gallery.
Here are the links for tonight’s show:
Proof of Public Domain at pdinfo.com [link updated 2014-09-20]
Confirming and Documenting Public Domain Status at royaltyfreemusic.com
List of public domain Christmas songs at pdinfo.com [link updated 2014-09-20]
I have
- A list of the rest of my music to choose from
- The ability to poll and see if there are specific songs people would like to see on the CD
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Episode 011 – Day 16 – Interview part 1
The first part of my Guest stint on The Indigo Room: Creating Our Reality with Sydney Chase and Diana Kessler. Original air date November 16, 2007.
My background and experience, My Holiday performances and other shows, Common Time: The Aural Report, My education in music, publicity, The first verse of Christmas Angel (at approx. 14:50), Overview of the “With A Voice Like This” and the Christmas project, an abbreviated daily update, motivation and inspiration, How this interview came about.
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Episode 008 – Day 13 – A Touch of Sound
This update goes deeper into my views of sound overall, Acoustic vs. Electric vs. Electronic, and how my understanding of it helped me help myself when laying down tracks and making it easier for myself when it comes to post production editing. The things that made it past just a general knowledge into an understanding I didn’t have before. then a word about personal appearances, reviewing With A Voice Like This on iTunes, playing a new version of Christmas Angel and, of course, comments from the Podcast Gallery.
I have
- A much better way to lay down tracks that makes it easier for me to sing
- A way of being able to do post production that makes sense to me
- A way to remix the song A Round for the Holidays
- A goal of finishing Christmas Angel and playing the finished product tomorrow night
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Episode 000 – Day 05 – Part Un
Today is the first live recording of With A Voice Like This and so I thought I’d prerecord a brief message on how you can interact with my show and blog, so here are a few thoughts and the prerecorded blurb.
- Call and leave a voice mail for me at 630.492.0487
- Send an e-mail to [email protected]
- Call into the live recording of the show
- Go to www.talkshoe.com
- In the search box, type 52008 and press Enter
- Click the title With A Voice Like This
- Find the time of the next live show
- Call 1.724.444.7444
- At the prompt enter 52008 # on your telephone keypad
- Then enter 1 # on your telephone keypad
Then you’re live on the Podcast recording.
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Day 01 – Welcome
Welcome to the With A Voice Like This Blog and Show notes page.
This blog will be all about voice…Performance, Podcasting, singing, experiences, teaching. You name it, it’s likely to show up here, either as a blog entry or show notes from the weekly ‘With A Voice Like This’ interactive podcast recorded live on Tuesday nights at 7:00PM Central Time (GMT-6).
But first, this blog is going to be an integral part of a month long holiday project. The With A Voice Like This Christmas project. This blog entry is the launch of the project in which I’ll be using Podcasting and New Media with different services across the internet to create a CD of a cappella Holiday music all by myself and giving regular updates in this blog and in my interactive podcast, newly renamed With A Voice Like This. There will be regular updates that you will be able to participate in at www.talkshoe.com and there will be more information about that in the coming days. Stayed tuned, this is Day 1, the launch of the project. More to come tomorrow!