Check out some videos of my first live show in years. To see the whole set, head to the playlist I set up on youtube.

You can also download just the audio files if you like:
Michael Edwards – Grumpy Dave’s (Live) – 20MB

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Tonight, I join Balloon Messenger at Grumpy Dave’s for a show. 10PM $3. I plan to have it recorded and can hopefully post media here afterwards.
 

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free music download from Michael Edwards

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I’m playing every Wednesday this month at Grumpy Dave’s Pub, which is in the upstairs of Easy Street Cafe. I’ve been putting together many songs and I’m excited to try them out for an audience. I’ll be opening for Balloon Messenger (Marky Dally).

The dates will be:

• 8/5, 10PM, $3
• 8/12, 10PM, $3
• 8/19, 10PM, $3
• 8/26, 10PM, $3

I’d love to see you there, have a beer, chat it up. Here’s a map of Grumpy Dave’s Pub (above Easy Street):

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A musical colleague of mine who performs beneath the veil of a shifting team of collaborators known as Night Shall Eat These Girls And Boys has a song that immediately caught my ears. The song isn’t flashy, doesn’t sabotage nor reinvent any genres, nor does it have a mind-blowing production value in the humble recording I will provide here.

However, the song is just plain good. In the end, that is more important to me. The technology and production value can always come later. This guy knows how to write songs, and you can’t buy that.

Lily and I are learning, becoming friends
we do this by keeping very far away
we’ve already yelled and kicked and cursed
our drinking throats devoid of thirst
and now that it’s done, i’ve found the silence left to be much worse

lily will not accept our love is dead
she is crouched to the floor, arms wrapped about her head
she doesn’t cry or guilt or dread
jog memories and unmade beds
her head held high
she leaves the house with tail between her legs

lily says she does not know who i am
so cold and so sarcastic to my friends
in my defense i’ve been this way
for weeks and months before today
she looks at my friends
but doesn’t count herself as one of them

i have begun to see somebody else
and sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t help
she’s smart and sweet and kind and all
and generally keeps me enthralled
but when I’m down, I’m still not sure exactly who to call

Hear their music at their MySpace page.

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Just wanted to take a moment and point out a few websites I (or someone close to me) has had a hand in. So, without further ado:

Rotating Pilgrim

http://www.rotatingpilgrim.com

With a title inspired by the writings of people such as Søren Kierkegaard and Walker Percy, I started this site to post writings, meditations, thrashings, inspirations, and anything else I find intriguing. It will generally center around literature, arts, philosophy, ethics, and religion. You can also follow Rotating Pilgrim on twitter.

Listen To Your Friends

http://www.listentoyourfriends.com

Storytelling is awesome. Unfortunately, where I live, most of the time we are going to external sources for stories. Whatever happened to telling stories to each other? Reading books to each other? Something about the spoken story told well by someone we know just rings true to me. That is why I started Listen To Your Friends. Anyone can upload an mp3 to this site and your reading will be there for all to hear! LTYF is also on twitter.

What are you waiting for? Get involved!

World Story Organization

http://www.worldstoryorganization.org

World Story Organization is dedicated to providing a storytelling and film production education for communities around the world. My brother, Justin, is the founder. He would love whatever support you can give him!

Further Up & Further In

http://www.cslewisblog.com

Maintained by C. S. Lewis scholar and father of yours truly, Bruce Edwards, this web site is focused on providing essential resources for lovers and students of C. S. Lewis, and his friends among the Inklings. Begun in 1995, as one of the very first C. S. Lewis web sites, Further Up and Further In is intended to serve both the novice and the experienced reader of Lewis.

You can also follow Bruce’s Lewis work on twitter.

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On the way to Chicago I shot this video and then edited it in my hotel room. Enjoy.

Tokyo Witch (Music Video) from Michael Edwards on Vimeo.

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What you should know

• Working on some songs with Lee Bozeman still. (I really owe this more focus ASAP).
• Stop Don’t Stop EP still in the works. Drums, Bass, Guitars are finished. Vocals and Aux Percussion still needed, plus any extra “spices” we will add.
• I have also been tracking the new Michael Edwards LP for a couple of weeks.

New Michael Edwards LP you say?

Yes. Not news if you read this site. I am harvesting a couple of years of songs and also much new material into a good, juicy package. Hopefully it can be heard to be adding a few instruments to my repertoire as well as perhaps new kinds of songs. You’ll never find me recording 10 same-sounding-songs and boringly releasing it.

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“From now on, it’s not going to be about how pretty the voice is. It’s going to be about believing that the voice is telling the truth.” - Sam Cooke explaining Bob Dylan’s voice to Bobby Womack, who had confessed he did not understand the style.

“The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.” – Dorothy L. Sayers

Starting with the understanding that not all music is created, performed, or heard for that reason, who are the artists that make you believe they’re telling the truth? Not just that they might have a good voice, but that what they are telling is the truth, that you believe them? (Or, at least, that they themselves believe what they are telling). (more…)

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There are many projects on the horizon this year that I’m working on. All Things Bright & Beautiful has some upcoming songs, Dunvint’s debut LP is on the way, Stop Don’t Stop EP (“Some Kind Of Change”), and my forthcoming LP which has lots of post-apocalyptic scenarios and involves lakes and orchards and militias and orphans and more (but no, this won’t be like the Decemberists. I refuse to have barrow boys and chimbley sweeps and scurvy in my music). It might get tough to finish all of these projects in a timely fashion, because there are a ton of weddings this year, not to mention my own!

This is also the year where I shall cross the quarter-century mark. Perhaps I can raise a guinness glass in the air with some of my friends who I don’t get to see very often anymore. I would like that.

Godspeed to my brother who will be interviewed for a chance to be admitted to Columbia University in New York for a masters program in (correct me if I’m wrong) Fine Arts!

Well, I wanted to sit here and write something more but it’s almost 1AM and the words aren’t coming. I shall invite the muse to come along next time.

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