If you’ve seen the Jesus Revolution movie, know that it’s pretty accurate in what it presented, if you allow for the fact that other things happened that would be hard to keep in perspective in a 2-hour movie. I became a Christian during that era (Nov., 1972), and the fact…
Okay, I haven’t been updating this like I should have been. My bad. MOST of my day-to-day music activity gets posted on my FB music page https://www.facebook.com/paulracemusic. To complicate things, GoDaddy recently caused me to break this site by giving me bad instructions when I needed to fix another site…
Folks who’ve checked this page out recently have realized that some of the add-ons are broken and a lot of stuff I post on my FB page doesn’t get over here like it should. Still playing music, writing songs, encouraging others. I DO need to have some more videos and…
On another forum, I saw lots of complaints from people who show up for an open mic or a gig only to have everyone talking through it all the time. You can’t always avoid that. And usually it has NOTHING to do with the quality of your songs or your…
This is just a note about picking up bass guitar again after a 20 or 30 year virtual absence. In my 20s and 30s, I often played in “pickup bands” and other casual ensembles where we would pass instruments around depending on who was singing lead on that song. So…
A note about saxophones in case you ever thought about picking one up to learn on. Alto, Soprano, or Tenor? A quick run-down on which horns are easier to start off on or to transition to. Soprano (what Kenny G’s recordings usually feature) is high-pitched and hard to start out…
A longtime friend and former pastor recently invited me to provide worship music and campfire music at a retreat for people of “a certain age.” The folks were delightful. Here’s an irony. I mostly play banjo when I play “out,” and you form different callouses when you play banjo. The…
On August 21, 2021, the Dayton, Ohio neighborhood of St. Anne’s Hill celebrated its annual “Porchfest,” an event in which dozens of regional musical acts perform on front porches throughout a charming neighborhood of restored home. I performed with multi-instrumentalist Geoff Walker. We did originals and a few Folk covers,…
I was highly active in local and regional music for years, as a songwriter, Folk singer, Rock sax player, Worship Leader, CCM songwriter/singer, and more. Included in that was maintaining a reel-to-reel-based home studio I could use to record my own music and the music of my friends. Then parenting…
I was considering giving lessons again, and came across something I wrote years ago when I was trying to put together some online materials: One thing I don’t miss about giving one-on-one guitar lessons is that nearly every guitar-star wannabee I attempted to teach “knew more about music” than I…
