Don't Be Like Beethoven
Published: Fri, 12/16/22
And he was there by himself. So – hey, presto – a chord/melody genius is born, as young Joseph Passalaqua figured out how to give the people – in this…
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New Album Now Available For Download
Published: Wed, 12/14/22
While the signed CDs are gone, high-quality downloads of my new album, Beautiful Scar, are now available along with my previous two records,…
Three Rules For Practicing
Published: Fri, 12/09/22
When I did finally start understanding how to practice, it happened because I took on a new instrument: I determined, at around 22 or 23, to become…
David's New Album – Going Fast!
Published: Tue, 12/06/22
Beautiful Scar on Bandcamp More soon, David "Got through 'Anything But Their Bones' and knew I needed to buy this. I knew you were a player, but these…
Here, Do This
Published: Fri, 12/02/22
write a book – or shouldn't. Nope, I reckoned I had taught enough week-long blues guitar classes over the past couple of summers that writing a book…
New Album Shipping Costs Correction
Published: Wed, 11/30/22
Shipping costs were incorrectly set at an e horbitant $25/record on the Bandcamp page. Zoiks! That has since been corrected; the $25 price for the CD…
David's New Album Now Available!
Published: Wed, 11/30/22
record, which will hopefully, unlike this one, take less than four years to put out. You can check out the entire record over at Bandcamp, as well as…
Three Answers
Published: Fri, 11/25/22
1. Will I be running any kind of Black Friday sale? This year, at least, I will not. So go spend your discretionary shekels elsewhere, like on that…
Making Stuff Up
Published: Fri, 11/18/22
Sometimes I wonder if there's something inherently weird about taking music as seriously as we all sometimes do. A lot of my friends are musicians,…
The Spot Of Art
Published: Fri, 11/11/22
Ms. Fretboard's one and only brother is the brains behind a somewhat epic arts festival here in Austin called Fusebo . So not only do we get the…