Stefanick

Sunday Morning Worship *Cancelled* – Trinity Church – Spring Hill, TN – 10/10/10

The History of Track 52

Track 52 is the last song on our CD “Body Soul & Truth”  It’s an instrumental guitar tune that I play in the open D tuning (DADF#AD).  Why is it called “Track 52” you ask?  Well before Stefanick, Aimee and I were in a band in college called Serasphere.  We put out a 4 song EP that had a bonus 5th track acoustic instrumental.  A lot of people liked the song and would refer to it as “number 5” or “song 5”.  It may, in fact, have been our most successful song on that project.  It has been the background music on the local access channel in Nashville for the last 10 years.  As far as I know it still gets played a few times a day.   So… I thought I would do the “sequel” on this CD and give it a name related to the original.  I played it live at our CD release party last year and finally have put it up on YouTube.  Someday I’ll have to make a live video of the original Track 5 and put it up.

CityFest Spring Hill – UAW Hall Spring Hill TN – Spring Hill, TN – 09/25/10

Rocking the Hard Rock with Undue Favor

Didn’t get to post this last night…but here it is…

I just got back from playing guitar with Undue Favor at the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown  Nashville.   It was a great time in a very cool venue.  The Reverb Room upstairs at the Hard Rock is open to the patio that overlooks Broadway.  With this amazing weather we’ve got it was awesome to sit out there and enjoy the view (see the pic) while we were listening and waiting for our set.  Kenneth Duncan started the night off with some straight up country.  He and his band sounded great.  Kate Taylor followed and had a few other people join her for a couple songs to mix it up.  After Kate Finished we went to set up.  I helped Kelly setup her guitar since she borrowed Aimee’s acoustic pedal board and I was waiting for my area to clear out.  I saw the sound guy talking to her so I wanted to make sure we could get phantom power to run the L.R. Baggs Direct Box.  Instead of hearing, “Hello, could we pretty please have phantom power because I don’t have a battery to run this, thank you so very much.  You seem like a great guy…”  He heard, “Hey Pal! I’m gonna need phantom up here to power this direct box!”  So… He kindly replied,”Why don’t you let me do my job and you do yours!”  That was an awesome way to start the night and I was feeling really good after that…full of confidence and ready to go…yeah right.  Anyway, don’t think bad of the sound guy, cause he came back and apologized and we got on the same page.  He also did a great job running sound for us so he gets two thumbs up even with the initial altercation.  Also, he has the coolest thing ever going on to setup the monitors.  He has a laptop linked (over wifi) to the main Yamaha board and mixed the monitor mixes while standing on stage right there with us.  First time I’ve ever seen that… very cool.  Why haven’t we thought of this before?…now Aimee is hoping that it becomes standard at every venue we play.

Undue Favor at the Hard Rock Cafe in Nashville

Party at the Hard Rock tomorrow night…Matt is playing guitar with Undue Favor tomorrow, March 6th at Nashville’s Hard Rock Cafe.  The show will open with Kenneth Duncan starting at 7 followed by Kate Taylor.   Undue Favor goes on at 9pm.   Come on out and hear Christy and Kelly rockin’ with a full band.  Only $5 at the door.

Let Go

Lyrics for “Let Go”

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Stay Who You Are

Lyrics for “Stay Who You Are”

You’re not like me and I’m not like you Read more »

Rain Down

Lyrics for “Rain Down”

Rain down over all the earth Read more »

Space

Lyrics for “Space”

Who needs one more sad song to cry themselves to sleep? Read more »

Fingertips

Lyrics for “Fingertips”

Flaming orange fills the sky Read more »