recorded 31 July 2008

This episode of With A Voice Like This includes

At Any Rate (00:00:51)
An announcement regarding the August 1st closing of BuyMusicDirect.com and its sister site SellMusicDirect.com. This is the site where my Christmas EP With A Voice Like This Christmas was being offered as a Disc on Demand and the ideas of how to offer the EP for the upcoming Christmas season, so stay tuned on that one. as long as there is an interest, I’ll make sure that The EP will be available.

4-AM (00:04:49)
The two day, twelve hours recording sessions in which we recorded 9 (I could only remember 8 of the titles) songs for our demos and woodshedding purposes. The majority will end up with 30 second excerpts on the site to give site visitors an idea of our repertoire and style. Also discussed was how we decide on the songs we do, what media players are available for the websites (see the links below) and how to know when and where we’ll be performing.

Comments From The Podcast Gallery
Podcasters who gave feedback included Andrea from the Geek is Chic Podcast, TVSeriesFinaleFan from The Plug Show and SuperMom7000 from TV Talk.

Here’s a link to the Microsoft Silverlight player as an alternate to the Adobe Player as part of the 1 Pixel Out Audio Player WordPress plugin used here on both this site and the 4-AM.net site.

Don’t forget, you can always call in your Comments From The Podcast Gallery to 630.492.0487, write to me at [email protected] and get your thoughts aired.

And if you listen via iTunes, please feel free to leave a review of the show, it would be greatly appreciated.

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Episode 50 of With A Voice Like This and in this episode:

An update on some upcoming blog entries
Choosing a logo

Here are all the choices we had for the 4-AM logo (click to enlarge in a new window), created by Kim Fenolio:

And here is the finished logo (click to enlarge in a new window):

Working on demos
Arranging Drift Away for a mixed a cappella quartet
Comments from the Podcast Gallery

And Introducing Listener’s Choice:
I’m always up for hearing new music and one way to do that is to have you give me your suggestions, so here’s all you have to do:

Pick your favorite podsafe song (if you don’t know what a podsafe song is, see the Podsafe Music Network [Edit: site no longer exists])
Send an e-mail to [email protected] with a subject line of Listener’s Choice and
Include the song title and artist’s name
Include an (optional) 10 – 20 second introduction in mp3 format or
Call the Comments From the Podcast Gallery voicemail (optional) at 630.492.0487 and leave your intro there

Remember, this is an all ages show and the final decision rests with me, so send in your songs and intros and I’ll play at least one a week and if there’s a big enough response, I’ll probably dedicate an entire show to your music. What a great way to support your favorite Podsafe musician.

This episode has two songs, one directly from a listener and one indirectly from the same listener. Lynn, the host of Living in a Chemical Soup sent three of her favorites, I took one of those and slipped in one of my favorites that I was introduced to by Lynn. The two songs were:

You Just Don’t Get It, Do You? by Paul and Storm (off of Lynn’s list)
The River Driver by Great Big Sea

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063 – A Closing and 8 More Songs

recorded 31 July 2008

050 – It’s 4-AM Do You Know Where Your Music Is?