This song is probably the oldest song aside from Here I Am. I wrote it in 2004 which was the worst year of my life ever. I mean, if anything bad could have happened that year, it probably did. My old church died, which had and has had a huge impact on me and my [...]
Clouds is the 5th song from the Acoustic Ovation set in January. I really like this song. I think the chord changes are nice and I enjoyed where I began to write it, which was in the built in amphitheatre in downtown Tallahassee at Kleman Plaza. I happened to look up at the sky as [...]
Here I Am is the 3rd song from the set at Acoustic Ovation. I believe it’s probably the oldest song I performed that night (aside from the Ramen Noodle song). It’s a simple song but I really like the chord progression. For some reason I have a small issue remembering lyrics, and since this song [...]
Like I mentioned previously, I performed a small concert where I did 9 Sammy J original tunes and 1 U2 cover. This is the second song from the set and it’s called What Dreams May Come. OH! I forgot to mention, Blake and I didn’t decide to co-ordinate colors that night. Keila and or Nat [...]
I got to do a house concert in January for an event called Acoustic Ovation here in Tallahassee, Florida. I performed 9 Sammy J originals and a U2 cover called Kite. A good time was had and the songs felt like they came across pretty good as well. You can help me decide I guess [...]
Here’s the performance I did of Clouds at Expression 08. I hope you like it. The rough weird recorded version can be found at this post if you’d like a reference, but I’ll just say I like the acoustic version better. I’d also like to send a shout out to my friend Debra Wilcox out [...]
Dear all you Tallahassee peeps. Friday night, October 31st, I will be performing my song Clouds at the 1st annual Expression Florida late night café songwriting competition. It will be at Christian Heritage Church from 10-12 pm in their Cafe. I’ve actually previously shared a very rough sounding recording of the song on this blog, and [...]