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Former musician a LONG time ago. Retired now and dabble.
Update for 2021: Had a successful 50/90 (my second one completed!), so FAWM should be a piece of cake, right? Hope to stretch my wings genre-wise, per usual. Looking forward to listening to the rest of you.
Update for 2020: Health problems, including NO VOICE so far (writing this on 2/6). I've written lyrics for 6 songs while I wait to recover, so I THINK I'll eventually get my usual 14 in. Stay tuned...
Update for 2019: I'll be putting out my 3rd album (pop) shortly after FAWM 2019 closes, and a 4th (country) album later this year. Going to try and do about half my usual "country" fare this time around and half R&B. FAWM has been life-changing! Good luck to all!
UPDATE FOR 2018!! I have an album out now--all proceeds go to KIVA.org to provide microloans for educating women in developing countries.
#1 | Laughers And Smilers |
18 Feb 2022 |
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#2 | The First Of Us To Say "I Love You" |
13 Feb 2022 |
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#3 | A Girl To Come Home To |
10 Feb 2022 |
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#4 | I Still Sometimes Read That Letter |
14 Feb 2022 |
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#5 | Candy From My Baby |
10 Feb 2022 |
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#6 | Crazy Tears |
15 Feb 2022 |
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#7 | Champagne For One |
14 Feb 2022 |
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#8 | BARE-CHESTED, HOLDING A FISH, AND STANDING BY MY TRUCK |
16 Feb 2022 |
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#9 | I Miss Being Your Boyfriend |
14 Feb 2022 |
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#10 | A Candle Burning |
11 Feb 2022 |
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#11 | Karen, My Heart Aches For You @billwhite51 |
20 Feb 2022 |
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#12 | To Be Friends Again |
10 Feb 2022 |
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#13 | Coffee After Midnight |
11 Feb 2022 |
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#14 | Favorite Breakup |
10 Feb 2022 |
Congrats on the win, my friend. I've got a lot of ground to cover in March. I hope you're sticking around.
You’re stopping? Gasp! LOL! See you in 50/90…
I think that title just popped into my head. No clue.
Thank you, Jerry! You've put out a lot of solid work this FAWM! I'm still holding that lighter for the saxophone solos. YES!! Have a beautiful spring and see you at 50/90 this summer!!
Thanks so much for your kind words on Geraldine…I’ve been trying to focus or production and arrangements during this FAWM so you pulled at all my heart strings by pointing that out! Thanks again!
Jerry, Thank you for your generous comments on Ghost of a Chance. I agree with you that Gwyn did an outstanding job, and I appreciate your comment about knowing how to tell a story. I LOVE story songs, so that really hit it for me. Thank you!
lol! I do appreciate you going back and catching the ones you missed. But I'm afraid I'm done until I get a new computer... I barely got that last song out. In the meantime, I've been trying to do something on my new iPadPro with the M1 chip. The power is nice, but, so far, full music production on an iPad, for me is like driving with my hands tied.
Thanks for your kind and thoughtful comments on both versions of The Window to Your Soul. I hear you about separating whites and colors. I do love the smell of bleach, so do separate sometimes.
Thanks Jer. No, the movie isn't very good. Just a 3 out of 10 on IMBD. The acting isn't very good.
Thank you Jerry for your kind comment on "Missing Texting You". You see, I used to receive many text messages from my late husband and texting him in return. We texted a lot as there was time when we both fell very ill and we couldn't reach for one another being in the same house. Then he was admitted to the hospital and we were texting a lot too and then, very sadly he passed away. When I saw the promp "text" I shared what I feel, how sad it is not to be able to text to someone I love. I didn't find the prompt "odd", it was very open to suggestions, the song could be about a text in a study book, text in dissertation, any text, mega text, etc. I find skirmishes very inspiring as many prompts are about something I wouldn't nessasarily written if I didn't see the prompt. Thank you again for all your support and kindness. I adore your songs and comments from you are very special to me.
Jerry, You are so flattering! Thanks for your comments on In Love All Alone. I feel very lucky to get to work with Gwyn and Georgie. They sure pulled this one off! Loved your comment about the 3G's!
Jerry, you are too kind. Thanks for the listens and encouraging comments on I Should Have Seen It Coming and The Window to Your Soul. I didn't write the lyrics for either one so I need to knuckle down and write some!
Be a free-roaming chicken, Jerry. Cross that barrier; that road and break out them horns! Thank you for stopping by and while my work has me stymied a bit, I will be back for my listening enjoyment and commenting!
Thank you for breaking my zong!! At last! Was starting to wonder if it was *that* terrible - lol! And, no, that is not me. I’m on my profile page. :)
Thanks for your very kind comments on I Don't Want to Talk.
Thanks for listening and commenting so kindly
hey there! Tape refers to cassette tape. It started out with the first track recorded on a 4 track cassette recorder in an RV somewhere in the south, then went to NYc, then mailed to Madison, WI, and then to me in Ohio. So, a physical and old school collaboration. We even have them going to and from Europe/US. Fun!
That is so very kind of you. @coolparadiso just mage my words sing. Literally :)
Thank you for the details :) It's extraordinary what you have wrung out of seemingly ordinary gear.
@jerrypettit it was vocals and music by @shallowcarrot
I just do words unless you need frog sampling :)
Hello, thank you for your comment on 'The Ribbon Song.' It was I who sang it, @jayjay wrote the lyrics :)
Thanks, Jerry, I might have to work on that video idea.
for some authentic bill whiite punk, try this
(1977 -2021)
https://billwhite.bandcamp.com/album/no-generation-gap
Jerry, Thanks for your enthusiasm for Hit Man. It was a totally fun collab and I'm glad you liked it!
Re. Florida Corpse, the whole process is a lot of fun. The first person records a minute of a track and passes on the last ten seconds to the next person. The last person records their section and stitches it all together. The end results can be crazy, and it’s a lot of fun. There may be a few more organized. Keep an eye on the forums.
Hey, I’ve got to say that I really like your music a lot! We are from the same fawm generation and somehow I haven’t run across you before. Very good and I will be back for some listening!
Hey Jerry! Thanks for your generous comments on Waiting! Yes, I told my friend about FAWM and he was interested but not for this year. He and I have been doing a handful of Zoom calls to get songs underway and then we exchange notes (no pun intended) in between calls. Btw, we both enjoy Summersongs songwriting camp (when virus stuff permits) if you're looking for a live songwriting adventure.
poetry? no. just a simple song about my daughter growing so fast that she refuses to wear any thng but dresses.
Thanks so much for your comments!
It wasn't 2019 or maybe Bill did the lyric then. I did it yesterday!
Thx so much man. I love the old style western movies and music.
I am doing a western song this FAWM....
Stop, Jerry, stop! lol! But, yeah, in my dreams.
my collab with johm was brand new in 2022, maybe someone else wrote a song with the same title in 2019.
Thanks much! I do recommend it, rapping is a lot of fun! It is to vocals what bass is to guitar… like bass is more like a drum set than a guitar rapping is more like a drum set than sim singing lol
Yes, that BiaB sax solo, like a lot of their guitar solos, are gems when used on the right track. Your choice was perfect for that one.
Oh really Jerry? I'm so flattered! We're still working on that draft...
Glad you liked our Collab "Together" (appropriate title for a Collab, eh?
rapping is a lot of fun! give it a go! my biggest advice is just be honest and be confident it's a fun genre to get in some word play and pass along weird philosophical musings lol
Heyy thank you for the kindness! Coming from you it means alot!
...If you are intrested, we could make a collab? An amalgamation of our styles? :D
Thanks for the note on the off tempo. Ooops!
thank you for your comments on street corner angel. this weekend i wrote a lyric with you in mind and because only you can do it justice. i have sent the lyric to your facebox messenger. as you would like to write a bill song and i would like to wri te a jerry song, this could be the perfect collab.
Thanks for your nice comments!
Jerry! For some unfathomable reason you weren’t on my watchlist. An error I have now rectified. Will try and catch up this evening :)
Its nice that you are looking after me :-) but i still have as much energy as the sun. I am easing a little, but hey i have March to rest from music. Now back to listening, hmm there is one of Jerry’s, oh good!
Thanks alot for the comment on Yggdrasil Dawn! The song is very much mimiced from the style of Wardruna, and inspired by the video game Valheim.
I use storyblocks for footage :)
Glad you liked my collab with Bill White.
Hi Jerry, thanks for the kind words on Winter. That weirdo doing the harmonies is also me, doing my "high" voice, he he. A bit of fun
Yes, that book is, to me, a fresh take on songwriting - the first one that didn’t bore me and didn’t feel like dancing about architecture - lol! That chord progression has been used a lot. He named a few songs, but I immediately heard “Don’t Stop Believing.” I got excited about it and had to use it because I don’t usually get excited about chord progressions. That’s not how I approach music. Thanks so much for stopping by!
Many, many thanks for the listen and your kind and encouraging words...
Thank you for listening. With ziptunes I do top-lining(melody and lyrics.) But stick around we berniced (trimmed and simplified the lyrics)the song and it’s now teo: my version and David’s version
Thanks for the kind world on "Mulholland Runaway", I know of the movie but have never seen it. The song really just came out of me imagining being disalousioned with LA.
Haha! Thanks, Jerry! I feel like Amazon should pay FAWM commission for these profile pic purchases! Will you create with the Korg synth? :)
Thanks for the encouraging words Jerry. I have a vocal from Bill in the pipeline for one of my own songs. Watch this space.
Thanks for your kind words :)
Most FAWM writes are with virtual instruments, because I don't own proper microphones and can't play guitar properly yet. My singing is heavily processed to make it sound okay'ish. I never release something like that in public.Thanks for your encouragement, but I need 5-10 years of practise to perform in a way that I can work with my own voice and playing without hearing all the processing and artefacts. Believe it or don't - My imagination is running wild, but I can't perform 80% of the songs I write.
Real magic happens, when I work with people who are good in performing and recording. So all the stuff you listen here are 20% versions.
Jerry
2 drum loops and I did all the rest.. with a BOSS pedal
Hi Jerry! On "Everyone Needs", that was grand piano stacked on top of DX7 piano in my Yamaha digital piano. Thank you for dropping by!
Honoured you chose mine! By the way there is a good recommendation forum thread
I'm glad you enjoyed "Skyscraper". I'm sure that this won't be the last collab with this team. It was super fun!
Thanks for your kind words in regard to Daughter
Thank you Jerry!! I hope you have a wonderful FAWM! It's so nice to see your comments :)
You know it was! Bill is just an excellent emotional singer...you can't teach that.
Thank you for listening to my piano!
Hey Jerry - for reasons unknown I go by hypnotist on 50/90 but brisk here, and I want to keep up that pointless and confusing tradition. Hope you're rooting around in your bag of tricks, can't wait to hear what you've got!
Hi Jerry, let's do this!
Hi Jerry! I hope FAWM 2022 is full of creativity for you :) Have a wonderful time!
Welcome back..have a great FAWM!