{"id":214,"date":"2010-02-02T17:20:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=214"},"modified":"2015-09-22T15:34:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T19:34:02","slug":"groundhogs-and-gray-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/groundhogs-and-gray-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"groundhogs and gray skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. There&#8217;s sure a lot going on this Groundhog Day&#8230;where do I start?<\/p>\n<p>Well ok, woodchucks first (yes, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Groundhog\">groundhog is actually the same thing as a woodchuck<\/a>, not a gopher as i mistakenly thought before checking <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Groundhog\">Wikipedia<\/a>). So Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so winter is gonna be sticking around for awhile more&#8230;6 weeks if you buy into the legend. <\/p>\n<p>Well, I hate to be the one to remind phurry old phil that spring doesn&#8217;t actually start until the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/spot\/riteofspring1.html\">vernal equinox<\/a>&#8230;which is more like 7 weeks away on march 20th. But, I guess what phil is really trying to tell us is &#8220;don&#8217;t break out the shorts and sunscreen quite yet&#8221;. Grrr. Thanks Phil.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of spring (and wishing it was), it looks like a lot of things are coming together. I don&#8217;t want to say too much right yet for fear of jinxing anything, but there may be some really cool things in the works. Subscribe here, join the <a href=\"http:\/\/reverbnation.com\/jamiegray\">mailing list<\/a>, follow me on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jamiegray\">Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jamiegray420\">Facebook<\/a>&#8230;do <em>something<\/em> so you don&#8217;t miss any news!<\/p>\n<p>On that note, Will King and I had such a good time playing together last month at The Bitter End in NYC, that we&#8217;re doing it again. Just confirmed today: We&#8217;ll be appearing at the ever so intimate Coffee Labs Roasters in Tarrytown, NY on Saturday Feb. 20th at 8pm. More details to follow, but mark your calendars and come out and have a bit of java and jam out with us! <\/p>\n<p>I just upgraded my account on <a href=\"http:\/\/reverbnation.com\/jamiegray\">ReverbNation.com<\/a> to allow larger files to be uploaded, so I refreshed all of my old MP3s with higher quality (320 kbps) versions which sound much nicer. If you already downloaded them, go back and get the updated versions&#8230;your ears will thank you. You can still download &#8220;Everything is Nowhere&#8221;, &#8220;Every Time You Fall&#8221; and &#8220;Right as Rain&#8221; for FREE, and &#8220;Olivia&#8221; is available for FREE if you sign up as a &#8220;fan&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>I also added a new recording of &#8220;Like A Wheel&#8221; which marks the first recording with me on bass guitar&#8230;as well as acoustic and electric guitars, djembe, and vocals. I also did all the editing and mixing&#8230;a total DIY project&#8230;and while I am not claiming to be really good at alot of these new tasks, it came out sounding good enough that I thought I should share it. You can stream it for FREE from the <a href=\"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5\">streaming player<\/a>, or you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/store\/index\/artist_487187\">buy the downloadable MP3<\/a> for <strong>just 80<\/strong>\u00a2. If you buy it, 100% of the profit (50\u00a2) will go to help out people in need in Haiti. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharperimagesbydesign.com\">My good friend Angela <\/a>just overhauled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/jamiegray420\">my MySpace page<\/a> as well&#8230;she did such a nice job I can&#8217;t stop talking about it. Be sure to check it out and add me as a friend if you haven&#8217;t already. Thanks Angie!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, join me every Thursday night at 10PM EST for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtv.com\/People\/JamieGray\">&#8220;Acoustic Brew&#8221;<\/a>, my Live Show on BlogTV.com&#8230;and be on the lookout for some special surprise shows on other days as well. <\/p>\n<p>Hope I see everybody soon!<\/p>\n<p>peace, <\/p>\n<p>jamie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 more weeks of winter, a new date added with Will King on 2\/20, more and better music available for download and MORE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4,14,73,86,519,9,30],"tags":[103,96,94,98,97,95,34,527,99,33,42,520,102,37,93,92,51,101,87,90,100],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-blog","category-blogtvcom","category-concerts","category-jamies-blog","category-music","category-original-songs","tag-bitterend","tag-jamiegray","tag-jamiegraymusic","tag-reverbnation","tag-twitter","tag-willkingmusic","tag-acoustic","tag-blogtvcom","tag-groundhog-day","tag-jamie-gray","tag-jamiegray420","tag-music","tag-ny","tag-original-music","tag-reverbnationcom","tag-shows","tag-songwriters","tag-tarrytown","tag-the-bitter-end","tag-will-king","tag-woodchuck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":331,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/blogtv-show\/","url_meta":{"origin":214,"position":0},"title":"BlogTV Show","date":"September 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"includes recorded clip from BlogTV show 5\/12\/11 \"7 Years\" (original song)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/90-mph-blues\/","url_meta":{"origin":214,"position":1},"title":"90 MPH Blues","date":"March 19, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I recorded this song during a Live show on BlogTV.com. 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