Here’s 2 minutes of an interview with Ben Taylor, the son of James Taylor and Carly Simon. Pretty good songwriting lineage. Listen especially to the last 30 seconds when he talks about editing, believing what you write, making it more pictorial, and not being cliche. It goes by fast, but he gets a lot in [...]
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You Will Never Get 32 Emails From Me Again
Well, not all at once, and not about this blog. If you are a subscriber, you probably awoke to a flurry of emails alerting you that I had just posted to this site. I assure you, I am not that prolific. We just migrated some of my old blog posts from another blog that I [...]
Wish List
I wish I had a Gibson Guitar like Joshua Radin. I wish I could play the guitar like David Wilcox. I wish I could write a strange and wonderful song like Josh Ritter. I wish I could write poetry like Billy Collins. I wish I had even just one song in a movie soundtrack, TV [...]
Hometown Boy Makes Good
My daughter Mariah won tickets to see Joshua Radin at the House of Blues here in Cleveland. Her prize package included the opportunity to watch his sound check and meet and greet him. Unlike the time she went to see Good Charlotte or The Promise Hero, she offered the other ticket to me. And unlike [...]
Coming Up!
This Friday, Feb. 25, is Rock My Soul Shabbat at The Temple – Tifereth Israel at 7:30. It’s an all-music Friday night service with a nine piece band. As always, it’s free and open to the public. It will look nothing like this:
IMHO
Here are two rules about opinions: 1) Don’t listen to other people’s opinions or take them to heart, and2) Always listen to other people’s opinions and take them to heart. If you have a dream, don’t let one person, or even a few people, tell you that you can’t achieve it. Persevere. However, learn how [...]
New Website!
Welcome to my new and mproved website/blog! When you go to noahbudin.com, this is where you will land. This page will change often — well, more often than the other pages. The other pages contain, more or less, the same information that was on the old site. This page is more of a blog which [...]
A Note About Recording
You are nose to nose with Thomas Jefferson. But his nose is 20 feet long. If he inhaled, you would disappear. From your perspective, not only can you not tell that you’re looking at the face of Thomas Jefferson, you can’t even recognize that it’s a face at all. You probably can’t even tell that [...]
What is Good?
I haven’t seen the movie Avatar yet. I hear it’s good. The reviews have been nearly unanimous in their raves. Friends and relatives liked it. The Facebook chatter was positive. I want to see it, and I will someday. Likewise, I have not heard the current hit song “Tik Tok” by Ke$ha. (Yes, that’s how [...]
