The Redding Brothers

RockOm.net recently featured us and FEEL as the track of the week. They interviewed us about the creative process and FEEL itself here:

The RockOm interview with The Redding Brothers

In other news, Nashville listeners have reported hearing FEEL playing on local station 94 FM The Fish.

In Huntington, WV, on March 27th, the trilogy begins. Three unique concerts, culminating in the release of our mysterious new album. You don't want to miss a single one of these shows.

The first concert will echo the nature of our album Wisdom From The Green Shag Carpet.

Each of the other concerts will have their own unique nature.

Tickets are on-sale now for $8 advance.

Be there.

My challenge to write, record, and release 14 songs in 28 days is complete!

It was a tough job, and we skated through with minutes to spare, but we did it. As usual, I procrastinated, leaving almost 9 songs to write in the last week. But we got it done.

This was one of my most ambitious resolutions from our group challenge: The Resolution Begins. Go there now, and add your own ambitious resolution.

And go listen to the 14 songs, read weird comments about them, and leave your own!

-micah

The Resolution Begins is our effort to compile and achieve the greatest resolutions of all time. It started on New Year's Eve with a small group of resolutions written down on a sheet of notebook paper. It has now morphed into a blog with hundreds of resolutions added to daily by people from around the world.

As one of my ridiculously ambitious resolutions, I decided to attempt to write and record 14 songs in 28 days. Specifically, I am trying to write and record 14 songs in the 28 days of February.

I just posted demos of the first two songs I wrote and recorded this month. Listen to them here, and let me know what you think:

1. The Last of it’s Kind
2. Rome’s Last Day

Better yet, subscribe to the Resolution podcast, so you’ll see as soon as I post new ones:

• in iTunes
• in another player

Attempting to write and record 14 songs in 28 days is a big task - a task so big, it could almost make you freeze up. But The Resolution is all about finding ways to make your creativity work, even when it doesn’t want to.

When I started writing these songs, I struggled. The song I started with morphed into another song, which morphed into a third, and before long, the whole day was gone, and I only had pieces to show for it. I was being stymied by my own creative vision. I have the feeling that this is going to be my biggest struggle this month: to know when to let things go, instead of staying stuck in a perpetual attempt to make them perfect.

And so I’m going to stop trying to make this post perfect, stop trying to find the perfect way to explain and detangle the creative process, and just go ahead and post what I’ve got. And ask you to tell me what you think.

-micah

The video for Walk 4 Water 2009 just came out, featuring our song "Feel". We'll be performing a concert as part of this event, and will be raising awareness of it around Nashville.