Posted by Mark Croft on April 27, 2011
how glad I am that I don’t have to write a song this week. The hardest thing about this competition is the weekly grinding out of another tune. There have been some weeks that the songs practically wrote themselves and others, like this one, that I felt like I had to beat the song into submission.
My thought this week was that I really wanted to do something that was different from anything else I had done so far in this competition, and I decided to go ‘dark’. Although many of you in the Madison audience will probably agree with my take on the Madison protests and budget bill issues, I know that some of you won’t. This is just my take on the issue and I certainly don’t want to alienate any of you or create more of a divide between the people of this state, which I think is the much bigger issue at hand. Sadly, I’ve heard of more than a few instances of people losing friends over this debate and find that very sad. Regardless of how you feel or which side you take, none of this is worth losing friends over. It might be a cliche, but in this instance it’s very true. The more we fight amongst each other the weaker we all are. Although this song was a tough one to write, I felt that I gave one of my strongest and most emotional performances of the competition. I only wish that more of the judges would have noted that, and I hope it will be enough to get me into the top 3.
Next week the remaining four of us will be performing ‘un-judged’ at the Annex on Wenesday at 8pm. I’m hoping the night goes quickly as I’ll most likely be leaving immediately following the showcase to drive overnight to play Muscle Shoals, AL and a festival in Dickson, TN. I’m excited to heading south where the weather should be a little bit warmer! Freakin’ April in Wisconsin! Unfortunately this afternoon I’m heading further north to Wausau, FORTUNATELY I’ll be playing the very cool Malarkey’s Pub tonight at 9pm!
ALSO…This weekend I’ll be playing a solo show at Christy’s Landing on lovely Lake Waubesa at 830pm. http://www.christyslanding.net
Hope to see you out!
MC
