thank you for lovely comment

Thank you for the comment on "Sateen jälkeen kaikki on hiljaa"! Glad you enjoyed it! :)

Hi Rob! Sorry for the delay, I hope you see this. Usually whatever I record during the year stays on my computer and then at the end of the year I move everything to a backup. I still tell myself I'm going to release them all someday but in the meantime, that's where they live :)

Thanks for the listen and comments on 'Extinct' and 'Gone' - I never thought who would be listening to it if everyone was gone? But then I guess I wouldn't know because I'd be gone too 😀

I think I have tried just about every genre at some point in FAWM history. Listening to other songwriters is a wealth of information isn't it? Blues, folk, I even did a hard r rock last year, almost wrecked my throat. As long as I don't have to play all the instruments, I think I can sing almost anything. With some practice, [[wink, wink]] Thanks for all the listening Rob.

Hi Rob. Yes, we were delayed 9 hours and I started thinking about the responses to the Comments First . I. made several voice memo recordings of airport terminal announcements, and practically wrote the lyric while waiting. Was very interesting. The one comment I fussed about was the swearing.

Rob, Thanks for your wisdom on thongs. It was a fun write. Had to make some withdrawals from my memory bank

Congratulations on your FAWM win. We need to make sure we get to meet in person some time this year considering we love on opposite sides of the same bay.

Thanks for the kind words (especially the shout to the harp! ) on "Blue Wailing" - one never knows where those things will go - that one was fun

Thanks a lot for visiting the morph chain! I will wait until FAWMover to check everything in the right order. I am so psyched to hear what happened to @erbaer idea...

Hi! I'm following you on a cappella song 6 -- please let me know how to get the previous tracks to add to. Thanks!

Hey @robheron1! It's morphin' time, you're up! Here's what you get to work with: https://write.fawm.org/songs/312298

Thanks for your comment! I tend to write both ways, in my head and with the uke in hand. And that song was no different. The core of the melody came from playing with singing the words I had written, but really the unusual nature comes I think from my insurance on centering around an E7 chord so that the song would feel unsettling sonically all the way through.

Thanks for your comment. Stewing means thinking about something over time, letting thoughts simmer in your mind. Cobalt is a rich blue color pigment made from cobalt and aluminum oxide.

Thanks very much for the kind comment on "Junk Start My Heart! (I Was Waiting For You)." :)

What's worse is that the more they fix the potholes the worse the roads get, at least here in Manitoba.

Hi Rob! Thanks for all your great comments. And good ear on “The Closer To Heaven,” that’s definitely a “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round The Mountain” quote in the mando solo.

Edit to add: YES to more Bad Song Club!! :)

Got the email. Let's go!

Hello! Just making myself easy to find for our digital 4-track challenge. I'm excited to see what we all come up with!

Hi Rob, thank you for your commenting on my skirmish song. Yes, one take but I needed to work with the settings and the notes to adjust them. A true one take I sometimes have while creating my music on acoustic piano although normally I have 20 takes before that one take works. I simply can't stitch the acoustic recording so each time it has to be one take :) A different story with the digital music when the music can be deleted in some places, things move around, repeated, etc. Individual notes can be changed without any loss of the recording quality. Yet acoustic instrument remains with more soul...

It will be going to a rural dump but there are no bears around here as we have no real woods to speak of -- wide open prairie and all.

Ha ha ha re barely surviving Galway ! I live way south of the city, on the southern edge of Galway Bay, near Kinvara :) Happy FAWMing :) See you same time next Wednesday for another fun skirmish :) A

On line now. Reading up on skirnishes.

Hey Rob! Welcome back!

Hi Rob, I am still in Barbados but will be flying home on the weekend. Looking forward to hearing your fiddle.