I am looking for a male country demo singer. I had a friend who did a great job on my demo's. He played guitar, great country singer style and recorded it for me. He was real reasonable on price. I paid less than fifty dollars. He charged me 30 and I paid him 35. Then I raised it and started paying him 40 bucks a demo. It was a fantastic deal for me. If I sent it to Nashville, I was paying 150 for a guitar/vocal and then the price went up to $200. His career is starting to take off. Good for him. I like to see others as they progress in the music business. 

     I don't need a fancy demo. I need a quality singer with a good country style. A decent guitar player who can record it for me. What do I do with the demo?  I usually will put the song on my website, and pitch it the publishing company I work with, Ammar Music. I like to have a better singer than me so they can get a better idea of how the song could sound. (You have to use your imagination a lot less.) 

     Today, I found a new singer on Fivver. It is an app where you can hire people to do just about anything. Make video's, play guitar, make full demo's, write lyrics for you, write a song for you, and the list goes on and on. Usually the person will have a video of them playing and singing or whatever it is they do. I found a guy that had a good voice,and played guitar well.

     I sent him a text on the app and it said, This person is in another time zone and it is still night time in his time zone. So he contacted me a couple hours later. I sent him the lyrics, and my rough demo. He sent me a bill with our agreed upon price of $40. It is suppose to be completed in eight days. 

     I am looking forward to hearing this new demo. It is always like Christmas morning when you get a demo made. So I am hoping for the best. I will play it for you when I get it. This makes me happy. 

     I wrote a song about the Kansas City Chiefs, Patrick Mahommes and how we all want to be winners like them. It is called Me.

ME 

Watching TV, wearing jersey fifteen 

cheering for Mahommes, and the KC Chiefs 

I ask myself, What would I do? 

if I was wearing his quarterback shoes 

Chorus- Oh, it's all about Sundays at Arrowhead 

hear the chants from the faithful in red 

I wanna shine like those stadium lights 

If Patrick can do it, maybe so can I 

believe, I believe, I  believe 

someday that'll be me. 

Could I thread the needle, for a touchdown 

or scramble for my life, get a first down 

I feel his joy, I feel his pain 

two kindred souls, who both love the game 

Chorus- Oh, it's all about Sundays at Arrowhead 

hear the chants from the faithful in red 

I wanna shine like those stadium lights 

If Patrick can do it, maybe so can I 

believe, I believe, I  believe 

someday that'll be me.

Sometimes life don't play out  

like it does in my mind 

but the dream is the gas 

that powers my ride, and  

Chorus-   it's all about Sundays at Arrowhead 

hear the chants from the faithful in red 

I wanna shine like those stadium lights 

If Patrick can do it, maybe so can I 

believe, I believe, I  believe 

someday that'll be me. 

I believe, I believe, I believe 

someday, that'll be me.

Yes, even though I am just a fan. Never was a football player. When we see a great play completed. Yeah, I wish it was me.

     Yesterday, I went to the Bluegrass Festival at Prairie Lake. It is a small lake a couple miles from Holton, KS. I have been going to this event for years. On Saturday afternoon they had an open mic for bluegrass bands. This could be a band that was established (been practicing together for years), a new band (just starting out), or a thrown together band of anybody who wants to play.

      I was playing in the campground with my friend Tim. He is a fiddle player that I had played with before at the festival. A guy with the open mic came up and wanted to know if we wanted to play. Tim told him that he wasn't interested. He asked me if I wanted to play. I told him I didn't have a band it would be just me playing my original songs. He said, That would be great and signed me up to do a half hour set. 

      So I proceeded to work up a set list of my songs to play. I had forty minutes to pick out my songs. Here is a list of the songs that I played. 

1. Long live the King

2. Polaroid Memories

3. Linwood Cafe

4. Best Friend

5. Sing

6. Shades of Gray

7. God sized hole

      It was fun to get to play my songs for a crowd. It was an opportunity for me to play and I was prepared. (Not totally prepared) I knew the songs but had to brush up on  a couple of them to remember what key I sing them in. I am glad I had the forty minutes. 

      I had an opportunity and I was prepared. So many times we have opportunities and we are not prepared. We don't have what we need, a guitar, a stage, don't know the lyrics, don't have a copy of the lyrics with us, or we make excuses. If I had more time, If I had known, or if I had somebody to play with me.

      So if you are a dream chaser like me, remember to be prepared to make the most of every opportunity that comes your way. What a great way to live and not have regrets. Good luck chasing your dreams. 

      Here is a lyric I wrote in the last week or two. It is saved in the notes of my phone. It might never be nothing, it might become a song, or never ever be looked at again. I hadn't shared anything lately, so I thought I would share it for fun. I wrote this as my grandson, Aiden was playing baseball in the 3A Kansas baseball tournament. I was thinking about baseball and how it relates to life. Here is the start of Fastballs

Fastballs

Throw a strike but not down the middle

a fastball inside to scare them a little

Then a slow curve ball that catches a corner

keep 'em off guard, until the games over.

She threw me a kiss with some sizzle

An innocent, "I love you" to scare me a little

Then she said, You're out as I was digging in

I threw down my bat, as the inning ends

This is the type of lyrics and scraps that are filling up my phone, computer, and old NSAI cards on my dresser. I have old NSAI coordinator card, (a box of 1000) that I write lyrics on in the middle of the night. When I get a big pile, I take and type them in the computer so I can't find them later. lol Yes, this is the life of a songwriter. 

     I was talking to my friend, Fletcher, who I write with. He told me that he heard that George Strait was looking for songs for a new album. That started me to think, If I was George Strait what would I sing about? The honest answer is I have no clue. Just like George would probably have a rough time writing a song for me. I didn't let this bump in the road stop me.

    I decided to do some internet research on George. I found out that he still owns his family farm. He is about as close as you can get to a real cowboy. Especially when you do a comparison of him to his contemporaries in country music. Also, he wears a hat when he sings. How cool is that? 

    Here it is- Be a Cowboy. If you know George I am cool if you share it with him. Seriously, I am good with it. lol