Posts tagged with ‘Fort Wayne Reader’

Wooden Satellites had their LP release show last night in Fort Wayne for Let’s Make Crimes and the album is getting rave reviews… Wooden Satellites have always been good, it’s just that this time they hit it out of the park. - Ben Larson, Fort Wayne Reader You can read more of Ben’s article here.

Wooden Satellites had their LP release show last night in Fort Wayne for Let’s Make Crimes and the album is getting rave reviews…

Wooden Satellites have always been good, it’s just that this time they hit it out of the park. - Ben Larson, Fort Wayne Reader

You can read more of Ben’s article here.

Chronicle of a Bad Year

from Lee Miles:

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Songwriter Lee Miles pays a lot of attention to words. There’s hardly a throw away line in his lyrics, no pat phrases chosen just to fit a rhyme scheme or fill a chorus, so it’s probably not surprising that when talking about his new album The Leaving, Miles seems a little… (Read More)

‘Sideman’ goes solo

Jon Keller was interviewed about the release of his first LP, Down In A Mirror, by  The Fort Wayne Reader.

You can gain some insight on the record directly from Keller and also read a short synopsis of the album courtesy of Ben Larson.

In regards to his experience recording a solo album, after years of playing in bands where he was not the principal songwriter, he said, “it was awesome, but mostly really nerve-wracking. Recording was really fun, because I had never done it before, but then actually playing [those recordings] for people was terrifying.” He’s been getting some great feedback from peers, however, and had this to say about that: “It’s humbling to hear what people have said, because I don’t ever expect them to say anything good about it.”

Read the rest of the article here.

I had all those songs, and they made sense together, and I realized that these are the most personal songs I’ve ever written.
Lee Miles on Open Your Grievous Heart from The Fort Wayne Reader.
There was a time when I would’ve loved to sit down and talk about my music all the time, but now I cringe at the thought of it. Doing this interview is hard. I don’t want to talk about myself. It’s the least interesting thing I can think of. If you love talking about your music, you should probably be spending more time crafting it than running your mouth about it.
Lee Miles on songwriting
We used an 800 megahertz iBook. We would have computer crashes left and right. One of the songs cuts off and ends with a glitch. It stutters off. That was the best take of a slide guitar part, but at the end the computer just shut down. That’s what that sound is. I nailed it, so James looped it. He made it work. If I was in a $1000 a day studio, you wouldn’t get that.
Ben Laatsch on The Magical Suitcase