New Projects.

When looking for new song material for a recording project, please check out my  songs  listed on the front of this site and on kariscottmusic.com....On iTunes and cdbaby.....Links on front page of this site and kariscottmusic.com....Thanks for listening...

New Recording Projects

When you are looking for  song material for a new recording project, please check out the  cd West Country with all original   country-style songs written by Michael Travis West...Michael is a BMI writer..He is on iTunes....There is a link to his page on cdbaby on the front page of  this site  and on kariscottmusic.com......Check it out....Thanks for listening..

Yodeling

The first time I heard yodeling, on the radio, when I was a little girl, I was so impressed...I really liked it...I used  to sit and try to learn to yodel but never could seem to get the hang of it...Even now I listen to yodeling and really enjoy it..The Swiss  and other European yodeling is always nice to listen to... There have been so many really good yodelers in this country..I will name the ones that come to mind now...I know there are many others...You can go on youtube and hear many........Elton Britt...Rosalie Allen...Margo Smith...Roy Rogers...Slim Whitman... Patsy Montana....Kenny Roberts....Girls Of The Golden West....The Dezurik Sisters, who sang There's A Silver Moon On The Golden Gate.....Wilf Carter(Montana Slim)....Jean Shepherd....Rex Allen....Eddy Arnold....Rod Erickson......So if you want to hear an art form of singing...yodeling...go on youtube and listen to some of these great yodelers  and enjoy....Who knows..maybe you will be able to learn to yodel and go on from there...

Writing A Blog

Usually when talking to people about all kinds of things, I seem to be able to hold my own  whether it is politics, weather or whatever...But when it comes to writing a blog  I sit here and wonder  what I should talk about...Sometimes, like today, I just start in and hope things start to jell...  Jell does make me think of the days when I made jelly...All growing season I would gather what I had growing in my garden..raspberries, loganberries,  strawberries,  Boysenberries and apples..  I got them ready for the  freezer  as I picked them...At the end of the  growing season I would take everything out of the freezer , put it in big  stainless bowl/basins...After all was thawed, the juice let loose so I squeezed it all  and started making the jelly..Being a mixed berry jelly was good as the above berries were strong enough flavored that I could  add a bit of water to stretch it out without taking away from the flavor..Oh yes, I had a few gooseberries  and red old fashioned currants that I added also.  Cooking all of it took a long time..I usually spent the whole day into the evening before I finished the project...Used to get 125 to 150 jars  i.e. some one third pint, half pint and pint jars..  It was so good...just juice, sugar and pectin....it possibly would have jelled without the pectin but after all the work  I didn't want to take any chances...  Everyone in the family  looked for their jars of jelly after it was all done...   You ask, what does this have to do with music?    Well, I was always a radio rambler  so  had the radio tuned in to good music  to listen to while I worked..It  seemed to make thiongs go along better...  You might ask why the apples...Well, apple juice adds juice  without  taking away the main flavor...Also I found that the apple helped clarify the jelly  because one of the marks of good jelly was to have it as clear as possible  and with apples, mine was....Those were good times...  Thanks for listening....

Quiet Shoes the Movie

Quiet  Shoes...the movie...is now available On Demand on CLICK  in the Tacoma, WA  area

Check it out..   Quiet uses my cut of Have You Ever Been  Lonely..    Also  two songs I wrote:  Yes, I'm Just  Looking   and Meet Me In Ponderay (written with Harvey Thomas)

MY SONGS

Just a reminder that some of the songs I have written or co-written are on my two cds...In The Beginning  Vol 1 and Vol 2.
All Of Our Dreams            Catch A Little Moonbeam           If Only I          See Me Through
What Lonliness Is           Meet Me In Ponderay           Soft Sand, Silver Stars          Tailgater
Still To Rock No More         Tell Me Honey           Wishing To Know       Yes, I'm Just Looking
You Know How It Feels To Cry

These songs are also available for your next recording project......Listen to them and think about what your interpretation would be...
Thanks for listening........

Happy New Year

An old year is gone and another year has dawned... I don't exactly  make resolutions...I usually write a list  of things I want to accomplish sometime in the future....Then as the year progresses, I try to work on some of the things on the list...Such as:  I have several notebooks of unfinished songs and stories/articles so have started a bit on that..
Also, over the years I have accumulated "paper"...it seems as though paper always says to me, "Oh, save me."......So I do...Well, I started looking at paper with new eyes as I have been going through things...I keep wondering why I saved some of these things  as I throw  the paper into a grocery bag which when full goes into the recycle bin...  The garbage company picks that up every two weeks...Since they started that a few months ago, I have really been trying to fill it up and thereby clear some shelf space...It is amazing when you see how much gathers up in the two weeks.   When the days are too cold and wet to do much outside, then is a good time to catch up on a few things...So maybe you too need to clear off the desk and a couple of shelves...Have at it....    Happy New Year...