OooOOOOOO! This is the perfect skirmish song! Very catchy, clever, and fun! This is devilishly catchy! I can imagine the entire massed voices of FAWM joining in for the last chorus… Yay! A cool song about a FAWM skirmish!! I keep wanting you to say scurvy dog or something piratey!! Very nice way to start FAWM! Ohhhhhhhhhhh, nooooooooooooooooooooo!!! This is going to be going to be going through my head all day now – the fawm skirmish theme song! I’m sure that anyone who hears this and does skirmishes will hear this song going through their heads over and over again. Now I’m wondering whether to leap into the halfway through skirmish with a song about skirmishers writing songs about a skirmish… query in production, were you shifting position to/from mic? not that it matters here, but my own mics are appallingly sensitive to proximity.
Reminds me of Tom Sawyer singing Arkansas on Big River! (That’s a compliment BTW!) And this is going to be a recursive FAWM, clearly. Sounds like it could be a pirate, drinking sing-a-long tune - the word scurvy would work well in there (ha, ha). To be listened by fawmers in other cities Then it’s time to record and post your ditties, I awoke on Feb 1 around 6am EST, an hour before the FAWM site opened for posting so I posted a quick challenge on the FAWM forums to write a song in 45 min to be ready to post when the site opened on the topic of skirmishes or FAWMĪt the posted hour, the host posts a title I was either moving away from the mic or was having some computer weirdness. I awoke on Feb 1 around 6am EST, an hour before the FAWM site opened for posting so I posted a quick challenge on the FAWM forums to write a song in 45 min to be ready to post when the site opened on the topic of skirmishes or FAWM. Tags: acoustic-one-take folk silly songskirmish fawm Here is a word cloud of all my FAWM 2014 lyrics. What follows, is a record of my 14 new songs, alternate demos, comments from the FAWM site, and a bit of accompanying artwork I produced along the way. There are some really neat things happening in the Arts Community in our area centred around the beautiful Midland Cultural Centre which was built a couple years ago, largely through a generous donation from a local business owner. You can find out more about our Saturday Songwriter’s group in my Proposal for a Midland-Penetanguishene Area Songwriter’s Collective and on our Facebook Group for Midland Penetanguishene Songwriters.  (I hope to get permission to share some of their songs on my site). It has been fantastic to have companions on the journey for this FAWM. The thing I enjoyed most about this year’s FAWM is the face to face community we are building with a weekly songwriter’s circle on Saturday Mornings at the Midland Cultural Centre.  And the great thing about having set seasons for creativity is the during the ‘off months’ it does not feel like I’m slacking off creatively if I don’t produce anything year.  During those months I find great inspiration and support from the online communities around those sites.  I have come to greatly enjoy the idea of having ‘seasons’ for creative activity, with FAWM in February, the 50/90 challenge in the summer, and Nanowrimo in November. With one day to spare, on February 27, I completed my second FAWM with 14 songs written.
February Album Writing Month has come and gone, and I haven’t made a single post here.