Flaky Creatives
Let me open by saying that creatives are some of my favorite people. They are, by definition… creative. They make the art. They bring...
Basic Training – Just Like the Movies – Or Not : How the start of my music career hit a bump
I was in the Air Force, and I thought that I should spend a few minutes on the joys of the military – my goals therein, and how the whole...
Songwriter Sunday - and the Next Album
For those of you that follow me on the YouTubes (or Rumble, because, YouTube sucks) know that I spent a year+ doing a thing called...
Writing Considerations: This Too Will Pass (and all the tricks)
Gifts from the universe, that's what my friend Josh Van Wey called it. When you're working on a song and it comes to you, unbidden, and...
Writing Considerations - Didn't Care About Money
This song came to be from three things: - A happenstance conversation with Mike Gill - A twitter challenge to write a...
Writing Considerations: The Promise
This song started its life as a request for a wedding song for my niece Kristen. She wanted something personal for us to play for the...
Writing Considerations: Last Leap of Faith
Most of the time, (as discussed in Jake's Guide to Songwriting) when I write a song it is either because I’ve decided to put lyrics to an...
And then there was one… student loan
A diversion from my normal music related blogs to discuss this milestone. I was notified by my lender that one of my student loans had...
Jake's Guide to Songwriting
I posted this as a Twitter thread - but you can read it in its entirety here. Jake Gray on songwriter (a thread) Are you wondering how to...
Surprising Serendipitous Songwriting
How does songwriting happen for you? For me it happens in a couple ways - sometimes I sit down intentionally and think “Ok – let’s write...
