Song-A-Day 2024

Those Who Crossed the Line

Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. This is my third attempt at completing 29 tracks during a leap year. The two previous leap years were interrupted by travel, but I was able to carve out the entire month this year. It ended up not being as much of a hurdle as I thought, though I’m quite certain it would have been more intimidating in 2016 or 2020 because I hadn’t yet hit my “I can do this” stride. After the production excess of Red Hill Danger … Continue reading

Red Hill Danger Zone

Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. In past years, I’ve had “requests” come from friends to try different styles or write about specific topics. One of the most successful of these was 202’s Spicy Bee. I never guarantee that I’ll actually take the request – Song-A-Day is already stressful enough on its own without having to satisfy an audience, and inspiration isn’t always a predictable thing. I do, however, try my best to at least give   it a try. This year, the request was “do … Continue reading

Red Hill Zone

Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. As the Pythons would say, “and now for something completely different.” If you listen to the month’s playback in sequence, the appearance of this song directly after the thunder of Mare Marginus fades out is like getting in the car in the morning and having the radio at full blast because you forgot you’d lost most of your hearing at the concert the night before. While I don’t remember the exact impetus to do this style of track, I strongly … Continue reading

Mare Marginus

Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. I tend to have a pretty strong self-deprecating sense of humor. I’m not sure if that’s a defense mechanism, an outgrowth of my early humility training by my parents, a natural extension of my sarcasm, or some deeper psychological thing that some therapist would like to talk to me about because they need to send their kids to college. To expand on the “humility training” thing a bit, I started acting in (little) musical theater at age seven and was … Continue reading

Heat Before Serving

Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. Either it’s getting close to the end of the month, I’m running out of ideas, or I’m just in a groove making Lo-Fi. Well, it’s actually probably a little of all three columns. For the last several years, I’ve had an unwritten “never do the same genre two days in a row” rule for Song-A-Day. Actually, it’s not really a rule, but more of a guiding principle. The underlying questions I have for myself is why do I have that … Continue reading