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Charlie Montney
I'm a longhaired almost-hippie stuck in the inner suburbs of a major rust-belt metropolis who's thoughtful, creative, and kind of geeky. In exchange for a paycheck I work from home most days leveraging resources to create shareholder value. When I escape, I play music, hang out in coffee houses, dink around on the computer, take naps, and think I should be off in the woods somewhere. Every once in a while I get in my car and drive far, far away, though I've always come back so far.
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Blogs I Follow
- The Sound
- naylandblake.net
- Chronicles of the Open Hearted
- Virtual Bloke
- Michigan LGBTQ Remember
- Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds
- Ryan Schultz
- casey382
- the drax files radio hour
- tkingfisher
- Tales From B.F.E. (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Guitar)
- Wolf
- Lucius
- Life, And Other Natural Disasters...
- Too old to die young
- I only buy it for the articles.
- Altivo
- Patio Boat
- The Wolf Mama's Kitchen
- PostSecret
Tag Archives: music
2022 Albums
I acquired a lot of CDs this year, most of them filling gaps in my collection from long ago. Here are the recordings I managed to snag the same year they were released this year: Death Cab for Cutie – … Continue reading
Graeme Edge, 1941–2021
Graeme Edge, drummer and founding member of the Moody Blues, passed away today, aged 80. Along with drumming and composing some of the songs the band performed, he composed much of the poetry on the albums. “The Balance” is one … Continue reading
Bandcamp is awfully cool
I like CDs. I like to have my music on physical media. It’s more tangible that way, and tangible is good. I like Bandcamp.com a lot. I’ve paid for and downloaded a fair amount of music from there, and most … Continue reading
New Music (sort of)
Today’s adventure took me to a used record and CD store, Blast in the Past, in Roseville, Michigan. My friend James the Writer is a regular and sometimes works there, and I was fortunate enough to run into him there … Continue reading
Pick up that fiddle and play us one
The thing I’ve missed most in the last two years of the COVID-19 Pandemic has been the Hiawatha Music Festival in Marquette, Michigan. The thing I’ve missed most about Hiawatha is the jam sessions that happened whenever two or more … Continue reading
Music festival time
Last weekend I went to the 40th Hiawatha Music Festival, in Marquette, Michigan. I wish I remembered how many of them I’ve been to. The Ott Lake Rambler moved back to Marquette in 1997, so it’s no more than twenty … Continue reading
Unsolicited promotional for Bandcamp.com
Last Friday (Feb. 3), the music site Bandcamp.com (where my CDs live digitally) had a special event. For any purchase made, Bandcamp would donate their proceeds of the sale to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). During the event, they … Continue reading
Show report
My show at The Dovetail with Emma Guzman tonight was pretty good. I had a very good first set; everything flowed together and I was plenty focused so nothing went wrong. My second set wasn’t quite as good. I’m probably … Continue reading
Nov. 15, 2015: Periscope wrap-up
A final post about my experiment with Periscope.tv: It turns out that the show I performed and videoed on Tuesday was kept on the servers for only 24 hours, so the playback disappeared early on Thursday. I apologize to anyone … Continue reading
The Periscope experiment was … interesting. The app tells me there were 14 viewers. I’ve heard from two friends who were trying to watch via computer who didn’t receive the video portion and had problems with the audio too. Friends … Continue reading
A songdog's new world of random thoughts 