greggandcyndi

martin sexton

i first heard martin sexton in minneapolis playing on a friend of a friend's stereo.  he was making his voice sound like a trumpet and i was blown away...over the next couple of years i had the fortune of seeing him live, once at the greenroom in iowa city and once at the river musice experience in davenport, ia.

recently i got one of his live albums at the store cause i lost my bootleg from the greenroom and i wondered why i haven't more eagerly pursued his music in the meantime.  he is phenominal...

my favorite song right now is "hallelujah (live)". it shows some of his higher range, and while he can whale louder than most, this song stays soft and sweet and convincing.

check him out...you won't be disappointed.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=154590

my savior lives

Get the new "My Savior Lives" album at iTunes

with the exclusive chord chart booklet
you also have to check out some of these interview-videos with glenn packiam about the new album!

garageband

i have a song on garageband called highway 40.  most of you that have heard my stuff have heard this one.  it has been doing alright it guess...it's gone from 439 to 179.  i'm hoping it breaks 100.  you never know.  go check it out if you like.

coldplay

i cannot get enough....enough said.

modesty

cyndi recently bought me "modest mouse".  so far, i like it.  reading through the lyrics, i can see that they have a lot of questions and/or about God.  things like..."you wasted life, why wouldn't you waste the afterlife?"..."if God controls the land and disease, keeps a watchful eye on me, if he's really so damn mighty, my problem is that i can't see, well who'd wanna be?...such a control freak?"  thank God He let's us ask these questions.

"i'm a real boy"-anthony fedorov

i've decided that if anthony fedorov makes it to the final four, my life may be in danger, i don't know if i could go on.  it's not that i don't think he can sing at all, it's just that he doesn't compare, in the least, to the rest of the remaining contestants.  he doesn't choose nearly as good of songs as the others, and he really doesn't seem to have much showmanship.  anthony, i'm not saying you suck, just that you aren't as good as the others, and that you look like a puppet when you perform.  last week when nikko smith was eliminated and anthony wasn't even in the bottom three, i almost lost it.  listen america.  that's it...listen.  it's not about someone's story, while that is part of it, or their personality, though that is part of it, or their looks, that is definately part of it.  i'll go back to what randy said over and over during the audition phase, "this is a singing competition."  so please, america, for my sake, for my wife's sake and for my soon to be born baby boy's sake, save my life by booting anthony off of american idol.