Your 2023 wrap up (recording! Not gear...)

Quiet year onstage as we crawl towards a partial Post-Pandemic recovery.
So... Only around 50 singing performances.

But almost all of them were with an amazing Jazz Trio.
With Tony Guerrero/Trumpet soloing with me twice!

Whereas 2015 to 2020 was over 4,000 Songs!! Didn't know "what I had".

Two recordings with Kenny Bronowski.*
The gifted... Singer/Songwriter/Multi-Instrumentalist/Producer/AE.
Whew!

On the second one we also had Danny Artuso, the incredible Steel Pedal player, on it.

Scores of "practice recordings" to try to up my Spoken (started in earnest last month) and Singing chops. As a result usually by the evening, you can really hear the true upper High Tenor voice finally developing.
Chris
*First recording a Dylan Cover of "Only A Hobo". Rod Stewart does a fantastic one!
Second was a Cover of "Goodtime Charlie"/Danny O'Keefe.
Top 10 Hit in 1973. Great classic song.

When mine does-onstage...
They usually laugh!
Thanks Danny.

Although the hopefully significant $$ (realistically) is going to NOT be mainly singing...*
It's good for personal morale.

More $$ likelihood with Animation VO/Dialects/etc.

*Unless I do those darn Chipmunk vocals.
And I don't need any "speeding up"!
They're Au Natural.
Chris
P.S. First time singing "One For My Baby"/Sinatra tonight. Am nervous!
Partly as someone listening may be hiring me as a...(get this) Wedding Singer!!
Might be good grounds for-well never mind.

I'm terrible at doing this. I know a few things were finished and released (one released on Jan 1). Several little 1-3 song projects. A few EPs from soup to nuts. A few clients tracked with me and mixed on their own. A couple where I tracked basics and the rest was finished elsewhere. One record by a band that I am a member of is started... Another song by the band I've been in forever that only works when the guitar player comes to town. I can't remember if the audiobook was last January or not. Taught 2 students a semester of Intro to recording. Another project with a music business class, which lead to 2 other projects.

A little reviewing for Tape Op, a conference in St Louis.

Basically, somehow, keeping the joint open.

2 - eps produced recorded mixed
1 - musical produced recorded mixed
Bunch of singles

Finished writing my ep possibly full record depending on how many I hate after I produce them

Tons of playing on other people’s records. Lots of bass, pedal steel, some drums, hardly any guitar surprisingly.

Slow year musically but I sort of transitioned away from taking every possible junk project to pay the bills to working on my house and studio. WAY happier working this way. Charging more for things that matter and passing up the smaller things that used to give me nothing but aggravation and grief.

I am small, small, potatoes for sure. My recording project released only one song the whole year due to things beyond my control. The target had been to release about once a month. We have the material and I have a lot of the basic tracks done especially drums thanks to drumsound .

The plus side of the recording project stagnating is that it motivated me to start pulling together solo arraignments of all of these songs and stick my neck out as a solo performer. Just me and a guitar is a lot more daunting than me “hiding” in a band and I am pleased that I have played out at least 40 times when my goal was twenty. I have actually started to gain a little traction out and about and hope to continue down this path in the upcoming year.

I appreciate everyone here for encouraging me in my various endeavors (both publicly and in PMs) and I sincerely hope everyone has a happy and energetic 2024.