I was asked a very hard question last week. Why should people care about my music? As with all hard questions I danced around the subject, dodge, dip, duck, dive and dodge as Patches might say.
But I had to think, it had never occurred to me that I should give people a reason outside of trying to be a good person who happened to write songs. There are plenty of good people writing good songs who I haven’t even heard of let alone hold close to my heart, so it appears I’ve been selfish - expecting that people would like what I put out into the world simply because of what I knew I put into it. Sorry about that.
I’ve been shouting from the social media rooftops without the slightest inclination to ask if you wanted more, listening, after all, is such an important skill for musicians.
The thing is I have to do this, every minute I’m doing something else I’m thinking about the song I should have finished (started?). I want to write music and I want to release it into the world and see what it grows up to be, hopefully you’ll want to hear it. It’ll be good to have some friends on this ride.
Thanks for listening,
Clint
PS A little snippet of something I’m working on, a brand new version of a song titled Autumn Leaves ...