Running the gamut.
Here I am sitting in my house sweater, grinning and chatting with you here on my electronic web-log. Let’s have some tea. I’ll catch you up to speed on the gossip. My, what a year! Should I tell you a little about the Ribbons of Song? This is their blog, right? Well, let’s see… It kinda feels like I’ve been lifting and tugging at this big recording project, trying to make it miraculously lift off the ground and take flight. Slow going. Can’t wait to hear...
Read MoreREVUE Music Issue features us this month.
West Michigan Music Sampler by REVUE REVUE magazine kindly included Ribbons of Song in the long list of local West Michigan music coloring their pages this month, and a song of ours is also in their music sampler for free download — track 10 on the compilation. Feels good to be a part of such a cool city with such a bursting musical environment — being able to see shows every night of the week in downtown Grand Rapids is a rather recent nightlife development, but there are plenty of...
Read MorePursuing Sunday Soup micro-funding.
We’ve drummed up a simple and straightforward proposal for a little extra funding from Sunday Soup GR. Our goal is to raise $500 to finish the recording of our New Album. You can help! All it takes is a hungry belly and a five-dollar bill. The next event (Sunday Soup #12) takes place on March 27th at the DAAC. Please come and support us in our recording...
Read More“Do Each Other” digital download
Sam Cook-Parrott of Radiator Hospital has announced a free download of our tape, Do Each Other, released on local Grand Rapids cassette imprint, Curious Lacunae. We sing each other’s songs in new ways, exploring the height and depth and width and breadth of arrangement that’s possible in bedroom folk/pop, whilst remaining true to the spirit of the original...
Read More“Do Each Other” cassette now available.
We re-wrote each other’s songs, and recorded them — now you can buy the tape! Sam Cook-Parrott of Radiator Hospital did his homework, arranging and recording lo-fi garage versions of four Ribbons of Song tunes, and I’ve returned the favor, lovingly choosing and recording five Radiator Hospital tunes in my moody folk-pop style. Sam chose to cover these Ribbons songs: Summer Storm Pillar of Salt Curlytops Me and My Fervent Hopes. I do my best to quirkily folkerize his punk love...
Read MoreSnowstorms and microphones.
Our four cars pulled into a snow-covered, poorly lit parking lot by the railroad tracks. It was a few minutes after midnight, and snow was coming down pretty fast… We all parked, and all left our cars running. Shadowy figures in the next car blared U2 from the stereo. I read aloud from a book on everyday Zen in a station wagon. Snacks were passed from car to car through rolled-down windows. Vodka, blueberry muffins, a box of Joe-Joe’s cookies, and a couple water bottles were...
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