Jo Hawke on April 1st, 2012

Danny Cockram | Songwriter. Please check out Kevin’s Uncle Danny’s new website. He’s written some great songs and now he has a place to show them off. :) Kevin and I recorded his “Back to New Orleans” with him soon after Hurricane Katrina hit. If you’ve listened to our show in Washington Square Park from [...]

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Jo Hawke on February 4th, 2012

I must’ve been on a Billie Holiday kick when I came up with this little work in progress. Warning: It’s just a few lines and you can tell by the revision in the second time around I really have no idea where it’ll one day end up going  (if anywhere)… https://www.evernote.com/shard/s21/sh/79445aae-9e5f-4eb8-864d-24e75cbb8b74/12a387c2534729e1c1542becfc4df9d8

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Jo Hawke on February 4th, 2012

This is my first attempt at using Evernote to record a piece and then share it with my website, so I’m not sure how it will work out. I’m looking for a good (and easy) way to post audio files from my mobile. I have an awesome audio recording/editing app (Tapemachine) that I may be [...]

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Jo Hawke on May 5th, 2011

I’ve been playing around with a tool called Cinch this week. It’s a website and a synced app that allow you to easily record audio, attach a message and image, and share with Twitter and Facebook followers and friends. You can also download, link, or embed the MP3 file. You can see the widget I [...]

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Jo Hawke on October 17th, 2010

One of the songs I’ve been working on over the last month or so finally took its first baby steps this week. The half-chorus I had now has its second part (I think): More of you, less of me That’s the way it ought to be. Fill me Holy Spirit, let me be your light, [...]

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Jo Hawke on June 16th, 2010

Off and on through the day Sunday, Attie would pull out the plastic push-button guitar and pretend to strum it, singing something I couldn’t place and claiming it was “Daddy’s song.” Once Kevin got home from work and pulled out the acoustic, Attie brought his to the table, singing that same little tune. His first [...]

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