Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Open D and Lemonade
Current mood:  enlightened
MMMMMMMMMM……I was REAL disappointed today. It takes a lot for me to get disappointed!!!!!! I was working on a song…… and in the midst of it…. a light bulb turned on in my head. The problem is……. the light bulb illuminated something I couldn’t or didn’t want to see before….. and now that I see it….. It is bad, bad, bad!!!!!!!!! I hate it when that happens! Bummer for me…. Now I have to make some changes!

Interestingly enough……… I was working on a song with an ALTERNATE tuning, when I became enlightened to the fact….. that I need to find an ALTERNATE route, to address my present disappointment! I found great comfort in this because……. if my new path sounds as beautiful as an open D tuning sounds….. In the end I will not feel this sad feeling I feel right now! I REALLY hate it when I have to learn something ugly!!!!!!

Sooooo if you are reading this…… maybe you could help me find some more tunings that will make me smile!!!!!!!!!!!!!If you can please send them too me, I would be grateful! I want to write a whole series of songs using these tunings, as I choose to find this new Alternate path! In the end I’ll have better music, and a better road to ride on!!!!!(smile) I am going to go make the best lemonade right now with all those ripe lemons…… I will be thirsty tomorrow on that long road into the unknown? Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a nice week!

Love,
Lex!

Currently listening:
She Talks to Angels
By The Black Crowes
Release date: 1992-06-10

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Awe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Current mood:  grateful
Wow……. I have been so humbled tonight! Eddie booked me, to open for a guy named Willy Porter! I was scared to death! The house was packed! Not one empty seat! I got a little faint at the beginning… but after a few songs I got into my groove! I am starting to love this adrenaline rush you get from performing…………And I mean RUSH!!!!!!!!!!! UMMMMMM… I can’t really explain it….. accept for using the analogy of Christmas or Hannakah, or whatever special celebration your religion embraces……… You wait and wait for the day to come, and you don’t know what to expect………accept in the performing situation……. you get a present greater than you ever imagined!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Willy was just one of the most talented people I’ve ever heard…….. And to think that I got to open for him is just mind boggeling. He has gone on tour with Paul Simon. and Sting, Jethro Tull, Jeff Beck, and just a bunch of people……. You need to check him out! I am really just at a lost for words tonight!!!!!!!!!

I say that performing is like a christmas…..ect.., ect……….. because people connect with you in such an incredible way….. and you know that your life is better because of that moment you shared with them!!!!!!!!!!! Some of these folks you will never see again……They come up to you after the show and tell you their story…….. and you go home saying…. Thank you Universe for that moment in time!!!!!!!

This man approached me this evening. and told me that he came tonight, because he had heard “Love Will Follow You” on the Eddies website!!!!!!!! That alone meant the world to me…. But then after the show, he came over and told me this really touching story…….I just don’t know how I got so blessed to have shared this evening with such kind and beautiful people!

I really wish the Universe could come together and connect with each other as a whole, because I can’t even imagine the joy we would receive on this planet……. in celebrating that non-material gift! That gift of Connecting and of Love! No matter what happens in this economy…. Life is going to go on…. I hope you can find someone to connect with and love…… and not put your energy into fear of a material world you have no ability to control or predict!!!!!!!!!!!! Weather you have a penny in the bank, or a zero balance…… You still have the ability to connect….. and that is the most wonderful gift you can give… or RECEIVE!!!!!

For all of you who were at the show tonight….. Thanks for sharing that moment with me!

Lastly…. To Geoff Melkonian, who played guitar and sang back up with me……. Geoff thanks for supporting me…. and helping me drive this vehicle of music that gives me so much joy and purpose in life!!!!!!!!! Thanks so much for visiting!!!!!!!!!
I really hope you have an incredible weekend……

Sweet Dreams!

Love,
Lex

Currently listening:
Available Light
By Willy Porter
Release date: 2006-09-12

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Tryin To Make Jimi Hendrix Proud!!!!
Current mood:  adventurous
Isn’t it weird how a circumstance can change your life forever? And WHEN the circumstance is occurring…… you don’t even realize it! My life was changed forever during the last few months because of several things, and I had know clue that it was happening!!!!! First it started with a message on myspace from this man… He ended up becoming one of my teachers…. and a dear friend!

Most of the things that make me feel good are bad for me…… so I try not to do them……. But music is the one thing that feels better than almost ANYTHING… So I can REALLY enjoy it!!!! I feel so guilty that I am doing something, that is not giving me a reason to feel guilty….. The chords I’ve been learning are better than 100 creme brulee’s or 500 chocolate lava cakes. I just can’t explain it!!!!! I hope there is not some hidden badness that I just don’t know about, because that would be an unbearable disappointment!

Each week….I sit in this room decorated like the 60′s, with all these famous guitar greats on posters on the wall…. and I think how much fun I am having! Then I learn a new chord and it leads to another… and then before I know it …..the E7sharp9 becomes magic… and I almost forget to breath….. These blues chords, and jazz chords he’s teaching me aren’t in my books……. and they make you find a rhythm you didn’t know existed!!!!!!!!! I hope I can make Mr. Hendrix spirit proud!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wrote my new favorite song yesterday, and it uses 10 chords…….. I used to be a 3 chorder…. 4 if I was lucky! But not anymore!!!!!! How cool is that. Then as I find this new music, I’m finding this voice that sounds like me, but has so many more colors in it! My life really has been changed forever!!!!!!!!

The second thing that happened during the last several months was…… that I fell in love with a man named Taylor!!!!!!!! My guitar broke…… and I had to get a new one! He is so beautiful…… I never knew I could love an object this much!!!!!!! The way that Taylor sounds when I play my new chords, REALLY is an explosion of goodness! I actually pick that guitar up first thing, every morning when I wake up, just so I can hear him sing…. Even if for only a minute!

Last night I spent the evening under the stars, at a benefit concert for John Jarrard in Gainesville, GA! It was an incredible evening with wonderful music, supporting a very special man! As the main acts got up to play…… I heard this voice start singing…… It was the voice of Randall Bramblett!!!!!!!!! Man was it a treat to hear and watch him! The best part about listening to him, other than his amazing voice, was that I heard some of the chords I’ve been learning!!!!!!! I was tickled pink!!!!!! To think that I could hear the depth of color and pinpoint it was just enough to make me go crazy with excitement!!!!!

As I sit hear listening to the rain dance on my roof……… I just want to tell the world how thankful I am right now for the Jazz and Blues!!!!!!!!!! Especially for the ability to play a Hendrix E7sharp9…………. Thanks for visiting with me!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my Gosh….. There is a big OWL outside my window RIGHT this SECOND… For REAL….. It is beautiful…… I can’t believe it!!!!! Maybe it is an OMEN that I’m going to get even more wisdom and insight with these chord structures!!!!!! Who knows, but I got to go and get my camera!!!!!

Oh….. also…. would love it if you came to hear me at Eddies on Friday night! I go on at 8:00

Love Ya,

Lex

Currently listening:
Now It’s Tomorrow
By Randall Bramblett
Release date: 2008-08-19

Friday, September 26, 2008

New Paintings
Current mood:Incomplete
Mirror, mirror, on the wall…….. You think you know someone…… but you don’t know them at all! Oh the world….. the tricks it can play……….. each and every minute of my living days!!!!! Go to my pictures, and under art work you’ll see……… The paintings my hand makes so unexpectadly……… To think how that hand moves….. on the strings of my guitar……. I wonder when those fingers will take me traveling far???????? What is the real picture you have painted in life? To reach the raw canvass, how many layers… must you cut with a knife?

Thanks For Visiting………..

Lex

Currently listening:
Greatest Hits
By Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Release date: 2008-05-20

Current mood:  fascinated
Oh My Gosh………..

I have spent the last 4 days at the Atlantis Music Conference…….. and I must say it was an experience beyond words!!!!!!!! You would not believe the incredibly cool people I’ve met……. and the breathtaking talent I have witnessed! Al Capone was a blast to talk too……. I just loved him!

They had a panel for women in the business, and it was so cool to meet such talented, incredibly smart woman, who have succeeded in accomplishing their goals!!!!!!! VERY COOL!

Then, Today I met a man from Turkey. I had tried to contact him back in April…. But was unsuccessful in my attempt! Today I attended a panel…… and THAT man walked into the room! How cool is that!!!!!!! I couldn’t believe it! That was just so much fun! We ended up getting to talk for a little while, and he turned out to be such a fantastic dude!!!!!!!! I had wanted to talk to him about my song “Let It Go”. In the chorus it says Let it go to the River Saint George. Saint George represents courage……. But guess what? There is a river called Saint George in Turkey…….. When I tried to contact him in April I did not know he was from Turkey…….. Can YOU BELIEVE that!!!!!!!!!!!

So many fun things are happening. Last night I sang to a bunch of great people………. And I am sooooo excited for October 10th! I am opening at Eddies Attic for an extremely talented man named Willy Porter……. The crazy thing is…… Is that my neighbor has been telling me about this artist that she loves all year….. and that when he came to town…… I needed to go with her to see him perform. I told her yesterday that I was performing on the 10th with Willy……. Her mouth dropped……. She said that is the man I have been telling you about all year!!!!!!!! Isn’t that just the most wonderful coincidence!

I am just having so much fun with all these super coincidences!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is weird how life does that…….. You have weeks where things all seem to be connected in such a terrific way……. And they are the gifts that gets you through the times that seem to be horrifically disconnected…… so for now I am trying to enjoy this moment!

Lastly……..As many of you know…….. one of my dreams is for my music to be heard all over the world………… Well guess what…….. My website has now been viewed by people in over 32 countries!!!!!!!!! I know that is not a ton…. But for me it is a nice start!!!!!!!! To do what you love……. And have people all over the world hear it…… Is just something that touches your heart in the most amazing way….. I can’t even describe it! I look at my life like a CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just want to keep on baking more layers……… Then ……… I want to share the cake of my life with all the people that have touched my heart, and all the hearts I’ve touched…….. and make it just the most exquisite tasting gourmet delight ever……….

If you are reading this……. I hope you can come on the 10th!!!!!!!! I hope I can share my songs with you in person!!!!!!! The only thing better than having my songs heard all over the world……. Would be to travel and sing them in person all over the world!!!!!!! Wouldn’t that be fun!!!!!!!

Thanks so much for visiting and reading this blog!!!!!!!!!! It means the world to me!!!!!!!!

Love,
Lex

Currently listening:
C’Mon, Accept Your Joy!
By Chris McKay & The Critical Darlings
Release date: 2007-05-08