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Maybe the most beautiful melody ever written? It was, afterall, voted the best song of the 20th century by the RIAA and the National Endowment for the Arts. I put this arrangement together on piano a long time ago, and transferred it to guitar. Gives me a chance to dig back into some of my jazz chops. Hear the full deal at a show near you.✌️#DTHomeJams
If memory serves me well, I started playing piano when I was about 4 or 5. After leaving home for college, I didn’t have an acoustic piano around to play until last spring. I’ve started using keyboards much more regularly in my live show, and spending a lot of time on this guy at home. It might be my favorite instrument to write on, and I’ve been trying to get a lot of that done lately, as well. Somewhere in the future, after #AmericanDarkness2019 wraps up, I’d really love to set the guitar aside and do an EP, or even a full-length album, on piano. The demos are slowly stacking up. We’ll see where it goes... ✌️🎹
Bringing #AmericanDarkness2019 to Chicago next month! FRIDAY 9/13 at Hey Nonny. Jared Rabin will kick things off.
Know someone in the area that might dig the show? Tag them in a comment below. ✌️🤘 📷: Abby Meyer
MINNEAPOLIS: #AmericanDarkness2019 will come to First Avenue & 7th St Entry w/ The Talbott Brothers in November. Tix on sale now. See you this fall!✌️
You gotta push yourself. You have to be uncomfortable. You have to put yourself in positions where you might go off the tracks. I played about 2 hours of music last night and maybe 3 songs were performed as I typically play them. Everything else was totally experimental. Maybe 25% of it really worked, if I’m honest, but the whole thing felt great. Total breath of fresh air. There will definitely be pieces that make it into my show. As for the pieces that don’t, I’m glad I rolled the dice to find out they didn’t quite work. You have to do that. Otherwise what’s the point? It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock ‘n roll. ✌️🤘📷: Jay Beatty
