This is the same recording as last time, I’m just reposting it so that it has a dedicated post and so I can put it in it’s own player on my server, instead of podbean.

Underrated

Sometimes I think that this life is overrated
cause everything’s the same
today it’s all been rearranged but the same at the core
nothing really changed

I need something new to breathe
I need something new to breathe

Well, if that’s the way it’s got to be
then maybe the change should be in me
if there’s a way to break monotony
it’s walking away from what I used to be
over and over again
over and over again

I see that look in their eyes but what can I do
I’m just a link in the chain
I know that I should really care, it should break my heart
but I can’t feel past my pain

Sometimes I think that this life is overrated
but maybe it’s just me

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I was actually able to get around to recording another one of my songs today. I’m not particularly proud of this performance, but if I don’t start moving a long, I’ll never get them all safely archived. So here it is (and with my new player! Now I can safely store my songs on my own server):

Love Me Either Way

-Garrett

I look into this mirror
Though dimly now it shines
Dark and musty but just a reflection
Or is it who I am inside?

You love me either way
It’s not about who I am
Your love is just the same
You are love either way

Come sun or come rain
Come grace or come strain
These shoes wear the path everyday
But if I stumble behind and everyone passes me by
When the tears on my face have dried
Would You listen if I told You that I tried?

Can I ever understand
The Love that You have
Cause the Love I have is blind
Covered by my sin and pride

Comments, Criticism, and Rotten Tomatoes welcomed

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And as my gift to myself, and you (if you appreciate it), is my first song in mp3! I don’t think I will continue using this service, but I had to at least get ONE song online before the New Year. Can you imagine what people would say otherwise?

Enjoy. Let me know what you think about the song. I will try to do the next one multi-track so you can hear my voice better. (remember, this is just a one track demo… so don’t expect too much!)

Bless the Lord and enjoy your families tomorrow :).

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Well, it looks like I managed to confuse a lot of people with my recent blog address change. Even though my old blog address (justaleaf.blogspot.com) does redirect to this page, my domain did not (justaleaf.com).

From now on, if you are just now rejoining me here, I will be blogging at http://blog.justaleaf.com. This decision was made because I am expanding justaleaf.com to include Music Archives and possibly more on the main site (which is still not ready).

The good news is, though, that I have 2 songs ready to go to (dis)grace your ears as soon as I can get the site up! So, by public demand, my voice is about to get a lot louder :).

Thanks for hangin’ in there through all the blog craziness!

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First reader to get me unbreakable strings that sound good gets a million bucks (when and if I ever get that).

I worked all week and was looking forward to recording my first couple archive music entries. I got my blog self-hosted and rigged up. Aaron let me borrow his condenser mic, which works with my TC Helicon voice thingy, and I went to Radioshack and bought a converter to get the audio to my PC.

Everything was set.

And my strings break. And I have no backups.

No backups!? I hear you exclaim… well I didn’t think would need any for at least a few weeks. I just bought long-life Elixir strings that are supposed to have the life of 3 strings! 4 days later though…. TWOOOIIIINNNGGGGGG!!!!! And I didn’t even play every day this week!

*sigh*

There’s no where, to my knowledge, to buy strings here in Oakhurst, so I guess the music project is on hold for now :(. This is the third time this has happened with Elixir’s, I just need to stop trying. D’addario is the only brand that lives more than two weeks on my guitar (I guess I play kind of hard, for at least 30-60 minutes a day, on average).

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My fancy-pants poll will close in 2 days! If you haven’t voted already, make sure you do! It makes me happy

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This is a poll. It means nothing if you don’t vote! So please go to my site if you are reading from a reader.

I have a poll on my site, on the right sidebar, asking if you are interested in hearing my unrecorded songs (currently a little over 50) as part of my personal project to “archive” them so I don’t forget about them.

Since I currently do not have the facilities to record them properly, I’m going to record them alone, live, and with my trusty $15 desktop microphone. And I won’t guarantee that they sound good (I can’t even use my vocal harmonizer/pitch correction deck because I don’t have an interface!) because raw audio rarely does (listen to the Jesus Record by Rich Mullins if you want to here what a legend sounds like in the same situation)

photo by giggie larue “one man band“

So vote with a click if you think I should make it public!

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the poll closes at the end of the month!

-Garrett

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These guys sure have been attracting attention at youtube.com for their very creative use of treadmills for their music. Worth seeing

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From 1965 comes an honest evaluation of last century’s modern math system from Tom Lehrer. I found it to be quite enlightening and I hope you will too.

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If you could imagine what a Folk/Pop/Rock would sound like… this is an excellent example. The vocals could use a little work, but a very creative song on the whole! Drop Gooma2 a line if you like their stuff! (play the song by using the player on the right)

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