James Gedda

My guitar player knows it doesn't take much to get me riffing.

A friend of mine (who's an incredible writer) had a line "We'll dream of the days where we dreamed of the days that we're in." It's a line I think of pretty often to help keep things in perspective.

@El_VP_WGT The older I get the less I understand weird loyalties folks have to genre. Country music is a marketing term, no more and no less. The only two types of music that actually exist are good music and bad music, and in my estimation the new Sturgill is good music.

I’ve been seeing a lot of arguing about the new Johnny Blue skies album and people not liking it because it doesn’t fit into the normal country envelope… I didn’t enjoy his prior album “passage du desir” I had my opinions, however I didn’t let that take away from my overall opinion of Sturgill, I just didn’t listen to the album or buy it on vinyl Music should be experimental and not fit the existing box, if every album was “meta modern” it would get boring after # 3, hell even the outlaws changed it up and tried different styles Listen to what you want but don’t hate somebody for trying to make new sounds

@westernjaguar I wish the app had a button where I could send them a little thumbs up or hug emoji, let em know I appreciate it!

Non-musicians will never understand the dopamine rush that comes with seeing "2 people listening now" on your Spotify

Happy St. Patrick's Day, friends! Here's a bit of "The Fields of Athenry," one of my favorites to play this time of year. The full version is up on Youtube! WEDNESDAY: Songwriter Night at Smokey Jo's in Crete, IL SATURDAY: Casey's in New Buffalo, MI w/ Stephan Jude

@gmoneyy1984 Bud if you care more about the genre/marketing than the music, then you're kinda just being a mark. Country music has always been a term defined by suits in Nashville and no one, not listeners and especially not musicians, owe it any loyalty.

@JamesGedda Yeah. Country music. And no he never went Chris Gaines Johnny Blue Sky and changed his name either.

You know who actively pushed against the burden of rigid tropes and expectations that come with country music as a genre and fought tooth and nail to make the music he wanted to make, regardless of stylistic conventions & how suits wanted to market it? Waylon Jennings

Today's office! Anderson's Winery in Valparaiso, IN!

@AgChainCowboy Exactly

@JamesGedda TOWNES GODDAMN VAN ZANDT

I'd probably say "Townes," I was really on my sad bastard bullshit that day. youtu.be/4auwlvfE6cc?si…

Had a great time doing some picking out at Navy Pier today! Brought my better half along too! @awkwrdunicorn

TONIGHT! KnuckleHeads in Michigan City, IN with The Big Breakfast!

@mattmoran_music Proud of you brother. Love you!

Five years today. Quitting booze won’t make your life better, but it WILL make it easier. The rest is up to you—one day at a time 👊

Usually around 100 gigs a year between 2 and 4 hours, plus practicing and writing. So that comes to... too many and not enough at the same time.

Perhaps the weirdest thing that sets off my social anxiety in a big way is occupying the pec deck machine at the gym because at all times you know there's at least half a dozen folks waiting for it to free up.

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@westernjaguar I have pretty stupid ears, especially for my own stuff, so the finer points of mixing beyond just 'which take sounds better' I tend to leave to my exponentially more intelligent friends actually doing the mixing.

How many mixes until a song is “done” for you?

@Smuphy Someone asked for this one a few weeks ago and I was embarrassed to realize I'd forgotten it. Need to relearn it! Thanks for the spin bud.