Will Knox

He's British and he's got a guitar.
Check out his website: www.willknox.com

You can also see his myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/willknoxmusic

Never Letting Go

Buckled Knees:

Rosi Golan

This talented young artist will have you day dreaming in an instant. Her Nora-Jones-esk tone can fill the room with the romantic air we all occasionally enjoy.

Originally from Israel, Rosi is now in the US but has shared her talents in many countries. Check out her website here. Be sure to check out more about this artist. You won't be disappointed. I promise.

Here is a taste of Rosi Golan:

Lullaby

Think of Me

Edie Carey

This is Edie Carey. She's pretty smooth. You can check out her website here: http://www.ediecarey.com/


So Edie plays pretty frequently at small cafes and once she got an email from a guy named Fred. Fred said, "You don't know me, but my wife and I see you all the time. It's my wife's 30th birthday coming up and I was wondering if you could do a house concert. PS Can you write a song for her?"

Edie told Fred that she would love to do a house concert but how on earth do you write a song for someone you have never met. Then Fred had this brilliant idea...
"We've been collecting our love poems over the years and I bet you could take one of the poems and put it to music."

So Edie took the poem and wrote the song "What Love Looks Like".
What Love Looks Like:




Red Shoes:



Also be sure to check out her song "On and On". I couldn't get it on here but I love it a lot!

Schuyler Fisk

I first fell in love with Schuyler Fisk when I heard her duet with Joshua Radin entitled "Paperweight". Since then I have been caught singing her songs while microwaving quesadillas, driving my ghetto blue van, and nostalgically remembering my past. This artist truly has a knack for writing those soft songs that get stuck in your head-but never in an annoying way. If you IMDB this lovely lady, you'll find that not only is she a musical genius, but she also has appeared on the screen in movies such as Snow Day, The Babysitters Club, and Orange County. You should definitely Google this one!



Hello

(This is such a great song, and I find it incredibly entertaining to listen to the guy singing along.)

From Where I’m Standing


Paperweight- Schuyler and Joshua Radin


Waking Life-from the Penelope soundtrack

Muse Music

Muse Music is a warm music venue in Provo, Utah. With good music, good food, and cheap admission, I have grown to love this place.

Mondays are nearly always FREE open mic nights. Sign up for a chance to show off your skills or just enjoy the amazing cove of talent.

Tuesdays are typically Jazz nights while Wednesdays are acoustic. The remaining days of the week (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday) never have the same theme twice. It could be indie, rock, folk, or electronic. If you're looking for a variety of music styles, Muse Music is the place to go.

Check out their website here.

For other music venues in Provo also check out The Velour and Starry Night.

Barbershop

If you even remotely like to sing and if you like barbershop style music, this post is for you.

Barbershop Harmony Society-http://www.barbershop.org/
The men's group in Salt Lake named the Saltairs is amazing! Check out the sites and go to a concert. I promise you'll find it well worth your time.
http://www.beehivestatesmen.org/
www.saltaires.org/

Sweet Adelines-http://www.sweetadelinesintl.org/
The chorus in Utah is named Mountain Jubilee. I just passed my audition to get in. I luh-huh-hove this group of ladies. They've got some mad choreography...and did I mention 90% of the group is over 65?


Metropolis is hysterical in concert. “I only have eyes for you"




Sweet Adelines Promo




Saltairs



Harmonically Inclined – Mr. Sandman






UnderAge Quartet: 'And So it Goes', originally by Billy Joel.





This could be you! Click on the links above to get more info and think about joining. If you don't join, at least make it a point to attend a concert. You won't be disappointed.

The Facebook Song

Capo on fret 2

Fsus2 looks like this: (It's a bar chord)
e-----1----
B-----1----
G-----2----
D-----3----
A-----3----
E-----1----

CHORUS:
G.....................................................C..............................................
Poke. Poke. The engagment is a joke joke joke jaja joke joke.
Am............................................. F.............................
Update your status, use the tagging apparatus.
Am.................................... G.................................C...........................
Stalk your ex-lover and go offline for cover....It's Facebook.

G..........................................................Fsus2...........................
1. I got home from school today and pulled up my profile.
G...........................................Fsus2...........................
I have a slow computer, so it's taking quite a while.
G....................................................................Fsus2...............................
Facebook makes a popping sound when someone wants to chat.
G................................................. ................Fsus2.......................C.......D...
I have to turn the volume down cuz my roommates don't like that. CHORUS

2. Shane got off his mission, he’s got 42 friends and counting.
He uses the “people you might know” tool and the number keeps on mounting.
His boss, his sister’s husband, some random guy named Tom,
the mailman some mission buddies, and Michael Phelps’ mom. CHORUS

3. New crush just accepted me. I click to see his page.
Check his wall, status, info, pictures and his age.
I looked at his relationship and to my dismay:
I thought he was into me, but dang it all, he’s gay.

Chorus':
Poke poke. It was only a joke joke joke jaja joke joke.
His roommates wrote the lies that had me traumatized.
He doesn’t really swing that way so don’t believe all that they say….on Facebook.

4. Facebook finally loaded. It took most of this song.
I have more than a thousand friends. If you think I’m lying you’re wrong.
Facebook is both a noun and verb as everyone can see.
The reason for the song I wrote is to tell you to facebook me. CHORUS

"Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with.

Someone finally understood you.

This is what music is about."

- Gerard Way, My Chemical Romance

Shake Your Peace

SHAKE YOUR PEACE! is one of my favorite bands because

1. The travel by bikes and public transportation instead of a band van

2. They generate their own power for microphones and amps by pedaling a bike instead of using an outlet

3. They plant a tree for each CD they make

4. They are based out of a camping tent on the roof of a pink house in SanFrancisco's Mission District.

5. Their website is hosted with 100% wind & solar power by Thinkhost.

6. Their music ROCKS!

Because they are self-sufficient they can have concerts anywhere. This means free concerts are held at various parks and outdoor settings.

I've already spent a fair amount of time on their website, falling even more in love with their awesome ways of music. I strongly urge you to check it out. More music is available on their myspace page. I am particularly fond of "Arms of a Gypsy".

Their CD sleeves are made of recycled paper and printed with soy ink. Audience members can assemble these sleeves by sewing the two sides together with yarn. See pictures of them here.

Music + Great Outdoors = Pure Happiness

Amber Rubarth

I found this amazing woman while listening to a FREE podcast called Acoustic Long Island. I love her catchy tunes, sensible lyrics, and real voice.

I also like her recollection of how she got involved with guitar in the first place:
"okay so one day right before graduating high school i was riding my bike through tahoe and i saw a little flyer blowing from a nail on a tree that said "wood sculpture apprenticeship" and i thought "wow, i would much rather do that than college!" (the brilliance of a 17 year old) and so i dropped the idea of college and moved to carson city, nevada to learn to use a chainsaw and make things like leopards and sailors and benches and pretty signs

"then one late night in the studio i was talking with the head sculptor there and he was telling me one of the most significant things he ever learned in life was the importance of following your number one passion and not your second or third, because you will only be truly great if you're doing what you really love most. so i put down my chainsaw, quit, and told him i was going to learn to play guitar and be a musician.

"that was three years ago. soon after (a couple weeks after i learned c, d and g on the guitar and a few days after writing my first 3 songs) i walked into a little coffee shop by the river in reno with two of my friends and a guitar ~ after missing sign ups for an open mic. we didn't want to go home yet, so we walked down the street to another coffeeshop and set up in a corner and started singing; we were kind of dorky and this was how we made ourselves feel like cool hipster rebels. the next day we got a call from the manager asking how much we needed to come back every week and so we demanded high dollars (20 bones) and secured our first residency, which consisted of walking in with our radio shack mic and little wannabe guitar amp and setting up in the corner, one of us "being" the mic stand until his/her arm got tired at which point we would switch. uh, yeah... preeetttttty cool.

"since then i've been doing pretty much the same but now i have my own mic stand made of plastic and i'm writing more songs, learning a little more about the guitar and writing on piano too. i spend my time in my head and my honda with no cd player which i drive ridiculous hours in all over the country. and i can't imagine anything making me happier. i'm starting to discover new music too... i grew up listening to my dad's rotating collection of mariah carey, michael bolton, gloria estefan "1, 2, 3, 4, come on baby say you love me" and kenny g. oh yeah and the bodyguard soundtrack. and i thought maybe i don't like music... but now i'm discovering so many great artists and it's blowing my mind. wowzeroonies"

You can check out more of her music and stuff here

Henry Mancini

The Life of Mancini
Enrico Nicola Mancini was born in Cleveland, Ohio on the 16th of April in the year 1924 and died in Beverly Hills, California on June, 14 of 1994. (Spaceagepop) This film composer lived to be the ripe old age of 70 before the day he passed away after a struggle with cancer of the pancreas.

He grew up in West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania and there he started learning the flute and piccolo. Mancini attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology and then went to Julliard. (Spaceagepop) Mancini was drafted into the army for WWII, but managed to switch to the band. After he returned from service, Mancini joined Universal and stayed there for six years. (Imdb)
Mancini married Ginny O’Connor and fathered twin daughters, Monica and Felice, and a son named Chris. (Imdb)

Direct Quotes
*Mancini's knack with songwriting often overshadowed his talents as a composer. He wrote for a wide variety of genres, from western to slapstick comedy, from sensitive dramas to musicals. He often experimented with unusual instrumentation, such as a steam-driven calliope for "Baby Elephant Walk," the cymbalum in "Experiment in Terror," sitars and fuzz guitars in "Arabesque," and aboriginal percussion in his score for the television miniseries, "The Thorn Birds." – (Spaceagepop)

*Mancini--he of the gentle smile, the mellow demeanor, one of those not corrupted by Hollywood--was a unique crossover in what is normally a fairly secular profession. John Barry turned out terrific themes, Jerry Goldsmith created musical cues that were at once dramatic and melodramatic, and European emigres like Max Steiner and Erich Korngold reinvented classical symphonic music for the movies.

• Mancini, throughout his long career, did all of these things, and consistently one-upped the competition by churning out wonderful, stylized melodies. Mancini didn't only fit music to images. You could dance to it ("Something for Cat" from Breakfast at Tiffany's), march to it ("What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?"), make love to it ("Dreamsville," "Charade"), weep to it ("Soldier in the Rain," "Days of Wine and Roses"), and get scared out of your wits by it ("Wait Until Dark," "Experiment in Terror"). – (Members)
  
• He broke the mold set by the Europeans: Touch of Evil was subtile, flavored with jazz brass, and distinctly American. He always considered it among his best film scores (Members)
  
• He was nominated for 18 Oscars and won four; in addition, he won 20 Grammys and 2 Emmys, made over 50 albums and had 500 works published. (Imdb).
  
• Pictured on a 37¢ USA commemorative stamp issued in his honor, 13 April 2004. The titles of the following films and TV shows, for which Mancini wrote the score and/or songs, are listed on the stamp: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); Days of Wine and Roses (1962); Charade (1963); "Peter Gunn" (1958)'; The Pink Panther (1963); Two for the Road (1967); Touch of Evil (1958); Hatari! (1962); The Great Race (1965); Experiment in Terror (1962); Victor/Victoria (1982); Dear Heart (1964); and "The Thorn Birds" (1983) (mini). The Pink Panther cartoon character is in the lower left corner, pointing to Mancini. – (Imdb)
  
  
  
  Some works by Mancini include:
  Touch of Evil (1958) (starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and Orson Welles)
  Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) (starring Audrey Hepburn)
  "Moon River" (lyrics by Johnny Mercer)
  Charade (1963) (starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn)
  "Charade"
  Soldier in the Rain (1963)
  The Pink Panther (1964) (starring Peter Sellers)
  "It Had Better Be Tonight" (lyrics by Johnny Mercer)
  Hatari!
  "Baby Elephant Walk"
  Experiment in Terror
  Days of Wine and Roses
  "Days of Wine and Roses"
  High Time
  Bachelor in Paradise
  The Great Impostor
  Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
  Peanuts theme - often ascribed to Mancini, but actually composed by Vince Guaraldi.
  Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)
  The Great Mouse Detective (1986) ... aka Basil-The Great Mouse Detective ... aka The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective (reissue title)
  Santa Claus (1985) ... aka Santa Claus: The Movie (USA: promotional title)
  The Lion King 1½ (2004) (V) (from "Peter Gunn Theme") ... aka Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata! (Europe: English title)

Works Cited

• Henry Mancini. Copyright spaceagepop.com 2006. Retrieved 05/23/06 http://www.spaceagepop.com/mancini.htm
• Henry Mancini. Retrieved 05/23/06
  http://members.home.nl/mancini/Movie1.html
• Biography for Henry Mancini. Retrieved 05/23/06
  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000049/
• Henry Mancini. Updated 22 May 2006 Retrieved 05/23/06 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Mancini
• Techniques used in Film Music Updated Oct 11 1998. Retrieved 05/23/06
  Judy Robertson http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~judyr/ghostwriter/music/paper/node7.html
  [1] A melodic passage or phrase, especially in Wagnerian opera, associated with a specific character, situation, or element or a dominant and recurring theme, as in a novel.
  

Music is said to be the speech of angels;

in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed

to man is felt to be so divine.

It brings us near to the infinite.

— Thomas Carlyle

Firstline

Once upon a time (right after I worked at Chick-fil-a) I worked in the customer service department for a homesecurity system called Firstline. You guessed it, I wrote a song about it.

Firstline Song
To the tune of Accidentally in Love by Counting Crows

So I said there’s a problem Clancey
There’s a problem because there’s 29 in queue (queue)
23 confirmation calls
and 6 shells for us to do

How much longer will it take to pass this?
It’s just one call but we’ve done it at least 13 times
Makes me wanna skip the bill-prorated
But that won’t do no good

Come on, come on
Transfer to billing
They deal with cash,
Money like a shilling
Come on come on
Everybody’s prorated bill

So I said, “Now listen Kevin”
This customer’s no-shows are up to 7 and that’s bad (bad)
Cuz she was an ’05 install and it’s charge-back ADT
Well, Kevin I surrender to the floor manager who says that I can’t go on break
Well I’m getting kinda hungry
But I guess I havta wait

These lies the reps all told are makin’ em mad, making ‘em mad
Oh no

Come on, come on
Transfer to retention
Come on come on
Where’s my workers pension
Come on come on
Everybody’s dropped a call

Come on come on
Schedule for a service
Come on come on
There’s no need to be nervous
Come on come on
Just transfer to level 2

We accidentally drop calls (x12)

The New Zealand Song

Exactly a year ago today I got on a plane to go to New Zealand for a study abroad. Without a doubt this is the best thing I have done in my life. You can read about my adventures in New Zealand from start to finish on my blog wheretoiletsflushtheotherway.blogspot.com.

I got back from New Zealand near the end of April. I had decided I was going to take the same adventure skills I had learned in NZ and apply them to life in Orem. That mindset only lasted for so long. Getting back to reality was a harsh transition. You can read about it here. (I must say, it is probably one of my most heartfelt posts.) I had no money and my job didn't start until the end of May. That left an awkward month to do nothing. What did I do? I got a temporary job and worked at a factory. Have you seen those tables churches store under the stage? Yeah, well I made those folding legs. I rivited z-bars to channels and channels to butterflies for two agonizing weeks of my life, working from 3pm to 1am. I had gone from the best time of my life to working the graveyard in a factory. Read about my table-leg experiences here.

To pass the time I wrote this song.

It is the first song I have ever made the tune and lyrics in my head and then found the chords (usually I have some guitar tune and then come up with the words) and it is the first song I've written with a capo. I call it The New Zealand Song. You can view/listen to me singing it in this facebook link.

CAPO 3 Chords G C D

G................................. G...................................C........................................ D............. G
In the Splash Palace we drink from the chalice of kayaks and spray skirts and hands of God
G....................... G
Oreti, Mataura, Jacabo's guitar-a
C............................ D............ G
Tuis, Tim Tams and swimming togs

CHORUS:
G............................ G
And in Aotearoa we all are explorers
C.................................. D.............. G
Mapping adventure and conquering fear.
G...........................................G
Tramp all the mountains. Let's meet at the fountains.
C................................... D................G
Looking for heaven? We found it right here.

Red bikes, green helmets. Becky tries to film it when we go to Taupo, Queenstown and Greymouth.
Climb up the hedges, rock faces like Everst.
Whipped cream, butter, ice cream from Deep South.
Chorus

Invercargill. “Past the shoe is our goal.” Can you believe surfing counts for school?
Load up the white vans, 28 girls, 6 mans
Mark says, “no dating is the number one rule.”
Chorus

Dark night, Southern Cross, red sunrise, green moss, white clouds so close you can look up and lick.
Headwind to church, apricot yogurt.
Don’t know the distance cuz k’s are metric
Chorus

CHORUS’
And we’re 34 explorers who learned from the chorus
To map out adventure and conquer all fear
Now we’re back home with cars and cell phones
But that don’t stop us; adventure is here.