Ramble On » Music http://www.dcooley.com Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:14:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Getting In Gear For The Year http://www.dcooley.com/getting-in-gear-for-the-year/ http://www.dcooley.com/getting-in-gear-for-the-year/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:44:52 +0000 David http://www.dcooley.com/?p=527

This year is definetly going to be different than any I have experienced.

After jumping into playing music last year, live music now takes a lot of my spare time. I know it is driving my wife crazy because she was used to me having nothing to do in my non work time and now I am constantly on the go.

I need to work on balancing time more than I ever have before.

Ok, time to go practice my music!

 

 

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Last year I posted that I was going to start playing the guitar. I never thought I would play so much, have so much fun, and get paid for it.

It was an awesome year for me and I want to thank my brother Mike Withrow. We started playing as a duo under the name Withrow Cooley in June and had a blast all year long. Looking forward to a full year in 2012 of playing and having fun!

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For probably the 5th time in the last 30 years I have decided to start playing the guitar again. Over the years I have played on and off without much passion. I even had the chance to play with some really good musicians when I was in Madison, Mississippi but I did not take advantage of that time.

Not sure what the change is. I now have a very large room that doubles as my office and TV room. The guitars are all located in this room and I find myself picking up one of them each day and playing at least a little.

My learning curve is strange. Seems things I tried to learn years ago now fall into focus and I feel like I am making some leaps in playing ability.

Of course it helps to have several members of my family also playing a lot and inspiring me. Thanks everyone!

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]]> http://www.dcooley.com/guitar-restart/feed/ 1 Dan Fogelberg http://www.dcooley.com/dan-fogelberg/ http://www.dcooley.com/dan-fogelberg/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:18:10 +0000 David http://www.dcooley.com/dan-fogelberg/

Sunday December 16th, 2007 Dan Fogelberg passed away.

I feel really bad because I did not know he was battling cancer. As a cancer survivor and a man getting close to 50 I have to admit that prostate cancer scares me very much. If you visit the Official Dan Fogelberg website there is a personal letter and sermon from Dan. I would recommend reading these.

God rest your soul Dan, and thanks for all the fantastic music over the years.

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]]> http://www.dcooley.com/dan-fogelberg/feed/ 2 Taryn Southern – Hot For Hillary http://www.dcooley.com/taryn-southern-hot-for-hillary/ http://www.dcooley.com/taryn-southern-hot-for-hillary/#comments Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:54:54 +0000 David http://www.dcooley.com/taryn-southern-hot-for-hillary/

During lunch I caught the Taryn Southern video, Hot For Hillary, it’s pretty funny. Taryn was a season 3 American Idol contestant.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sudw4ghVe8[/youtube]

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This hurts, really hurts, but, I have to give credit where credit is due.

It is obvious that Hillary Clinton learned some things from Bill. Former President Bill Clinton understood how to work a crowd and give a speech, and now Hillary shows the rest of the candidates how to connect with the new Internet generation. Her Soprano’s Spoof video was excellent and has certainly led to a lot of attention via the Internet.

Not sure that her selection of a Celine Dion tune was the right choice though.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shKJk3Rph0E[/youtube]

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]]> http://www.dcooley.com/hillary-clinton/feed/ 0 Happy Birthday Bro ! http://www.dcooley.com/happy-birthday-bro/ http://www.dcooley.com/happy-birthday-bro/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:16:34 +0000 David http://www.dcooley.com/happy-birthday-bro/

Today is my brothers birthday, Mike. He is the main writer at CybersMusic.com, and also contributes a lot to Musicians-Blognet.com and CybersView.com

Happy Birthday !!

Mike gets credit for teaching me how to play the guitar and my love for music. When I was a kid I would listen to his albums (remember those things?) for hours, tag along to the radio station and work as a roadie for his band.

Thanks for all the great memories !!!

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]]> http://www.dcooley.com/happy-birthday-bro/feed/ 0 Young Frankenstein http://www.dcooley.com/young-frankenstein/ http://www.dcooley.com/young-frankenstein/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:49:36 +0000 David http://www.dcooley.com/young-frankenstein/

Watch out, Young Frankenstein is headed to Broadway. And Mel Brooks is producing the new musical!

The original movie was released in 1974 and certainly had a cult following ever since. If I am not mistaken, that was my first sighting of Terri Garr, oh yeah.

Obviously we are in the midst of retro times.

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]]> http://www.dcooley.com/young-frankenstein/feed/ 0 Listening to Music http://www.dcooley.com/listening-to-music/ http://www.dcooley.com/listening-to-music/#comments Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:27:00 +0000 David http://www.dcooley.com/listening-to-music/

Yeah I know, I have been missing for a month. Just got busy with all kinds of little projects and sleeping. I know I am getting older, I like a good nap and sometimes I can just crash out before 8pm and sleep all the way through the night. Of course the medicine I take for my heart keeps my blood pressure so low I am always just one eyelid away from being sound asleep.

Thought I would share some of my favorite music with everyone using Pandora.

Favorite Music – Pandora

Stop by and check it out, see how weird this old rednecks taste in tunes really is.

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