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...
How it started – How it’s going - 2021
I was going through some pictures looking for something else and came across the picture on the left. This was one of the few that...
Songwriting: Three Days on the Mountain
I’m eventually going to get around to a whole series on songwriting – but this will be baby step in that direction. I wanted to touch on...
Mike Gill and the making of "Lately"
I normally don’t go into the back story of most projects that I work on, but this one was kind of fun. The story is better than your...
