My friends over at Reel Recording are doing a live performance series called Live & Reel that you should check out. Some really great stuff and I’m happy to have been involved with it. Here’s one of the songs we did: (Matt Nelson on cello and Courtenay Shipley on trumpet)
Live & Reel :: Evan McHugh – “I Want You More” from Live & Reel @ Reel Recording on Vimeo.
August is over, kisses come earlier
All from the wind as it whistles an ode to the snow
Chilling her down to the bone
Strange is an alibi calling the fates a lie
Telling excuses that always produce a reply
Staring her straight in the eye
She’s missing the simple design
Hold on Alice is lonely
Hold on Alice is gone
Hold on Alice is lonely
Oh God, she’s gone
Won’t you help her please hold on
Autumn is rolling in, fire on the hills begin
Catching and turning just like burning bushes of old
Oh but they fade with the cold
Hope is a casualty dressed up in everything
Used by soulless to offer the helpless control
Till you are replaced by the whole
Still falling the further you go
Hold on Alice is lonely
Hold on Alice is gone
Hold on Alice is lonely
Oh God, she’s gone
Won’t you help her please hold on
Till we all recover
In the days to come
It’s a fight worth fighting
For the souls unsung
Alice and the lonely ones
Won’t you help her please hold on
Winter is closing in fast on the prairie with
Middle America fighting the wind and the snow
Fighting her down to the bone
Now I think she’s beginning to know
If you follow touring at all, you know it’s tough these days even to break even on the road. I have finally figured out how to go out for an extended tour and come out on top. Meet the new tour van, complete with retro awesomeness and a questionable sponsored. I don’t smoke, but apparently now I have to. And it’ll only be menthol-cooled North Pole cigarettes for me!!
If you grew up in the 90′s Christian Music scene like me then you’ve heard of Smalltown Poets. Over the years I’ve gotten to know them and was privileged to design the artwork for their Christmas album that just came out. They’re great guys and they made a great Christmas record for you to add to your collection so go BUY IT NOW!
After almost going with the “Milk & Cookies for Jesus” concept we landed here with a fun vintage sled. Makes me want to whisper “Rosebud.”
I figure I haven’t written too many blogs this summer. I also figure I’ve been busy with very important things.
For one, I’ve been assisting in raising a human being. It’s a tough task and one that is easy to lose sleep over. But the difficulties seem to melt away when this particular one gives you her undivided attention. It also helps that she’s ridiculously cute. Here are some photos from a recent shoot we did for Adalyn LaRue. (she desperately wanted to do a photo-shoot)
Please visit SusanPeckPhotography.com to heap praise upon her great work.
