Well, it is now official. This weekend I signed off on the contracts for the songs that I contributed to on Eowyn's Silent Screams CD. Three of them were co-writes with Eowyn and the producer Travis Wyrick, with the fourth song being a co-write with Eowyn, Wyrick and Rob, the lead vocalist from Pillar.

I also got my copy of the CD and all I can say is WOW! The production is top-notch and will stand up against ANY CD you can find. Any. Obviously, I like the songs that I helped write :-) but there isn't a song on the CD that I don't like. This is her third album and I think hands down, the best one. Of the songs that I didn't contribute to I would say that "Crashing" is my favorite, right now. Of the songs that I did contribute on, it would be "Silent Screams" with "To My Surprise" a close second. I really enjoy the lyrics that she wrote for that one.

Right now you can listen to five of the ten songs on her myspace profile. Later this week, possibly as soon as tomorrow, you'll be able to pre-order your own copy of the CD, which I highly recommend you do, from her official web site http://www.eowynmusic.com.

There is the possibility of more good news related to this CD but until it's official I'm not going to say anything. Don't worry though, as soon as I'm able to share, I will :-)

Until next time...

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As I mentioned in a previous post, I recently signed up with an A&R firm to help in pitching some of my music to various entities, in particular film and TV. Well, I submitted my first pitch about three weeks ago and a couple of days ago I got the results.

If you're interested in hearing the song I submitted, click here. The listing I pitched it for was a Romantic instrumental. I wasn't sure if the song was going to fit the listing or not but I figured it was worth a shot, if for nothing else, to get the critique.

The song was returned and not forwarded on to the potential client. The critique was actually quite good, and in fact, the song actually was considered on target for the listing. I've read that over 80% of the songs that don't get forwarded are a result of not matching the listing. So I ended up being in the less than 20% category this time.

The main reason that the song didn't get forwarded was that they felt the lead guitar tone didn't fit well with the rest of the song, wasn't uplifting enough, and that the overall melody needed to be developed a bit more. I couldn't argue with them. Quite honestly, I debated the night before on changing the guitar tone but just decided to leave it alone.

I was a bit bummed that it didn't get forwarded on, especially since it was on target for the listing. One of the other notes I got was about the quality of the recording. They said it was "Not great, but clean enough for the listing." Since then, I've spent some more time on figuring out how to improve the quality of my mixes. If you'd like to hear my most recent attempt then click here to listen to a song that I wrote this past weekend to be pitched for "High Octane Instrumentals" - think "car chase scenes" and "sports highlight packages."

Overall, I chalk it up as a learning experience. I realize that it's going to take some hard work to be successful at this but it's a challenge that I'm definitely up for. It'll be another couple of weeks before I hear anything about the pitches I made yesterday. Hopefully, I was able to learn from some of my mistakes from the first one.

Until next time...

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Here's the latest on the Eowyn CD. She has finished recording and uploaded some rough mixes of four songs to her MySpace profile. Of the four that she uploaded, I was a co-writer on three of them, including the title track "Silent Screams" as well as "To My Surprise" and "Life." I'm BEYOND ECSTATIC with how the tracks turned out!

Click here to check them out for yourself!

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While working on one of our sites earlier today, I came across a picture of Rebecca St. James, which revived a memory I had from several years ago, which then led to another memory from even earlier.

When I saw the picture of Rebecca my mind flashed back to a conversation I had with my cousin, Dan Brock, back in the early 90's. He told me that they had just discovered a singer from Australia, in her early teens. I remember him saying that he and Eddie thought they had found a hit with her.

Before I continue, my cousin Dan started up Forefront Records back in the day. The Eddie I mentioned above was Eddie DeGarmo, from DeGarmo & Key.

That memory then set my mind racing back even further to a conversation that I had with Dan's mom a few years prior. This was before I realized who my cousin was. She was telling me that her son owned his own Christian record label and she mentioned a couple of the artists that he had on his roster. She said that if I wanted she would ask him for some free t-shirts and CDs. At that point in my life, I really hadn't gotten into a lot of the CCM artists yet. Since I hadn't heard of any of the artists I told her politely "Thanks, but no thanks."

So exactly who were those artists she mentioned? Well, the first one was DeGarmo & Key. The other was DC Talk. Granted, this was right after DCT had signed with Forefront and well before anyone knew what kind of success they were going to achieve. But still, I look back at that day and regret my decision.

Oh well, just thought I'd share with you a memory from my past and show you how random my thought process can be sometimes.

Until next time...

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A few weeks ago my buddy Joel approached me about the possibility of working with him on a project for his new job. The project is going to be a Christmas musical in a modern Praise & Worship style. By "musical," I'm not referring to something like "The Sound Of Music." In this context, musical is just an industry word for worship service. So, in essence, what we're doing is putting together a worship service for churches to use for their Christmas service.

Last night we got the official "green light" on the project. After letting out a big "Woo" followed by another just as big "Hoo!" we sat down to develop a game plan. As of right now the plan is to write 10 original songs, with the possibility of incorporating a traditional Christmas song as well. Stylistically it's going to be in the vein of Chris Tomlin and TravisCottrell.

As I drove into work this morning, I listened to a compilation CD that we put together of some of the songs that we would like to be able to capture the spirit of for this project. By the third song I was just overcome with emotion and began to weep. I was thinking about the task that lies ahead of us and just thinking to myself "How can God be so good to me when I'm so unworthy?" It just amazes me to no end of how deep His goodness can flow.

Our deadline to have the entire project completed is July 1st. So over the next several months I'll be keeping everyone updated on where things stand.

Until next time...

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Well, for those of you who read through my "Welcome to 2008" entry carefully, you may have picked up on this. But for those of you who didn't, I guess it's about time to let the secret out of the bag. Well, it's really not that much of a secret anymore but I know that all of you out there don't know so now I'm going to tell you.

A few months ago I had mentioned that I had been contacted by an artist who had heard some of my music and was interested in possibly recording some of my songs for their upcoming album. Well, that possibly has turned into reality.

The artist I'm referring to is Eowyn. You can check out her music by going to http://www.myspace.com/eowynmusic. The short version of the story is that I will have 4 songs that ended up being co-writes with her and the producer, Travis Wyrick (POD, Disciple, Pillar). If you go to her page, you can see a video clip of when she was in the studio last month. The song in the middle of the video that has her singing is one of my co-writes with her.

She's currently finishing up the vocals for the album. She'll be having a CD release party down here in Nashville at the end of February. As that date gets closer, I'll provide more information on how you can get your own copy of the CD.

Oh yeah, the drummer and guitarist from Pillar are also appearing on the album. Needless to say, I'm WAY BEYOND excited about all of this. I'll keep you guys posted.

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After talking about it for about a year now, last week I finally decided to take action and sign up with Taxi. What is Taxi you ask? It's an independent A&R firm that assists writers and musicians in getting their music in the hands of the decision makers in the industry.

The basic premise is they provide you with a list of opportunities in various genres. You then look through the list and see if you have any material that may fit that listing. If you do, you can submit up to 3 songs (usually) for the listing. The A&R people at Taxi then listen to your music, and if they feel it fits what the client is looking for, they then "forward" it on as solicited material.

It usually takes 2-4 weeks once the deadline for the listing has passed before you hear anything about whether your song was forwarded or not. If it is forwarded, then it's up to the client to contact you if they're interested in pursuing anything further.

This past Monday night I submitted a song to my first listing, which happened to be deadline day. The listing was for a "Romantic Instrumental" in any style so long as their was a clear motif, a "button ending" and the song was emotional. If you'd like to hear the song I submitted, then go to http://www.shoutlife.com/barryfrench and listen to the song "You're My Everything."

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Earlier today I noticed that I hadn't blogged in over two weeks. I couldn't decide if it was because I was just too busy or if I just didn't have anything to say. I don't believe that it was 100% one or the other. I think it was more of a combination of the two.

Since my last blog, the Thanksgiving holiday has come and gone. This year we left for my parents house on Thanksgiving morning instead of the night before like we've usually done in years past. We had a wonderful time while we there and I do believe that this years dinner was probably the best one we've ever had. I definitely ate way too much!

We got back home on Saturday afternoon. I then watched the UK football team lose to Tennessee in a 4-Overtime thriller. It just ripped my heart out when UT blocked our field goal attempt! I thought for sure we were going to end the streak! But alas, it was not meant to be this year. But later that night, the UK basketball team played and thoroughly destroyed their opponent. That made things a little better :-)

This week has been a hectic one. We're hoping to get some renovations done on our house so we've been going through that whole process. A permanent place for me to practice and record is not that far off from being a reality!

And speaking of recording... some friends of mine from Missouri are coming into town tomorrow. We're going to be laying down some vocal tracks for a few different songs. If everything goes well, then I'll have some new audio clips with vocals to post over the next week or so!

I guess that's it for now.

Until next time...

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Day 2 started out with me waking up before the rest of the guys. I needed to get my oil changed before I made the trip home so this was going to be my best chance to get that done. So I headed over to Wal-Mart for what I was hoping would be a quick process. When I arrived I was told that it would be 2 hours before they finished. I didn't want to wait 2 hours but since I had to have this done I gave them the go ahead. I was pleasantly surprised when after only an hour my SUV was all ready to go!

My cell phone didn't get any reception there so I didn't realize that Aaron had been trying to call me to see where I was at. But once I got reception, he got a hold of me, we met up and then made a trip over to his mom's house to meet up with The Beast. From there it was time to grab some lunch.



Excuse me... I believe I ordered a LARGE coke?!?!



The first clip with the hair down.



On our way to pick up some stuff before the show, I got to learn about one of Aaron's favorite places to eat.



We then headed over to the venue to make sure all the little details were in place. I had some time to kill so here's a quick look at my view from the stage about 2 hours prior to show time.



Do you hear that? Off in the distance? It's us walking in to the venue to bring the Heavy Metal Thunder!



I was hoping to have all the clips of the show ready for you to watch at this point in the blog but that just hasn't happened yet. So in the meantime, here's the clip that I posted earlier (slightly distorted video). This is the 2nd song in our set, "Listen," the one in which I cracked my China cymbal.



Not being in the habit of performing on a regular basis, I was pretty much gassed after this song! Fortunately, I had 2 big bottles of Gatorade up there with me. The crowd took some time to get into things but they seemed to have a good time. There were a couple of girls who were headbanging just as hard as most guys I've seen.

This was the first show that I can ever remember playing without the aid of a monitor of any kind. I could hear The Beast's guitar coming from his amp, and I could hear some of Keyth's bass, but I really couldn't hear Aaron's vocals at all. But nonetheless, I had a great time! Keyth kept the low end solid, Aaron was running around the stage like a Wild Man, and The Beast, well, what can I say, was just a Beast on guitar that night!

On to one of my favorite parts about playing live... (note the sarcasm)



Disclaimer: No insects were actually harmed during the filming of this next clip, except for maybe their ear drums. That is, if they have ear drums. I don't know... Do flies have ear drums?



Now, even though I couldn't hear anything from where I was at, that was not the case for Greg, the Sound Guy.



After about 5 minutes, the kit went from how you saw it in the background of the last clip to how you'll see it in this next clip... Yep, just 5 minutes...



Of course, there are consequences for working so efficiently...



Since the Red Sox were playing that night, Keyth felt inspired...



And finally, a shout out to my wife...



From there, we headed over to IHOP to get something to eat. This would end up being the longest wait I've EVER had for a meal at a restaurant. They only had one server on duty that night and the poor guy had at least 12 tables of customers there. It took forever but when we finally did get our food, it was worth the wait. About 2 hours after we got there, we finally left to head back over to The Cave to get rested up for the next day.

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I was able to get some of the footage transferred from my camcorder to my laptop last night of the first Judah First show from last weekend. The original footage was shot in wide screen mode with a 16:9 ratio. For some reason, probably due to my ignorance of the software, when I transferred the video it did so using a 4:3 standard ratio. So the clip you're about to see looks a tad distorted.

This was the 2nd song in our set. The song is called "Listen." I cracked my China cymbal during this song...



I'll be spending more time on the converting and editing this weekend and then I'll re-upload this clip along with all the others and hopefully finish out my video blog for the weekend as well. But I just wanted to upload this for those of you who haven't had the chance to see me play yet, or haven't seen me play in a very long time. Hope you enjoyed it!

Until next time...
Big Blue Barry

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You always read about people that end up being disappointed after meeting a celebrity that they looked up to. I can honestly say that in all of my encounters with "celebrities" since being in Nashville that I've never had any that turned out bad.

One encounter that I'll never forget is when I met Sebastian Bach from Skid Row at a music store back in '99, but that's a story for another time. This entry is for a more recent encounter.

Back in 1992 I happened to catch an episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The musical guest for that episode was a guy named Mitch Malloy. I had never heard of him before that night. After watching him that night I was hooked. I went out the next day and got his CD. It was catchy melodic rock and roll. I loved it!

I listened to that CD constantly. Even though he wasn't a Christian artist, there was something about that CD that just connected with me on a very deep, somewhat spiritual, level. There were many nights during my college years when I was dealing with sadness or hurt that I would just go driving and listen to that CD. As I said it really connected with me.

Mitch went on to put out another CD a couple of years later but it was a bit of a change in direction, less rock and more A/C. I liked it but not as much as the first one. Then after that CD it seemed like he just disappeared. This was back around 1996, way before being able to Google someone.

Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. I was at the office when I got an e-mail for a friend request for a social network site I'm on (http://www.myccm.org/bigbluebarry). The request came from someone name Mitch Malloy. I thought to myself "No way!!! Is this the same guy!?!?!?"

I went to his profile page and sure enough, it was the same guy! One reason that I was so surprised was because this site was a Christian site. Turns out that Mitch had become a Christian artist during the last year or so.

I couldn't believe it. Here's an artist that I still listen to, some 15 years after the CD released, and now I have a chance to tell him how much his CD impacted me. So we exchanged some emails over that next week. Turns out he's also a UK basketball fan.

As I was reading through his profile I saw something that mentioned him fronting a legendary rock band, but it didn't mention the band. So I googled him and found an interview with him from about 7 years ago. Turns out that legendary band was none other than Van Halen!

Here's the short version of the story. After Sammy Hagar left Van Halen, before they went with Gary Cherone, Mitch was offered the spot in the band. It didn't last long as he didn't have a peace about the situation so he ended up declining the offer. But during his audition with them, they recorded him singing over some of their songs.

In that interview he mentioned that he still had those tapes. Since we were emailing each other I figured I'd ask him if he still had them. Turns out he does. He invited me over to his studio to check them out. So a couple of days ago, I did just that.

He couldn't have been a nicer guy. He played me the Van Halen tapes. They did "Panama", "Why Can't This Love", "Ain't Talking 'Bout Love", and "Don't Tell Me" as well as an unreleased song. After I found out about this, I thought that Mitch would have been a better fit than Gary Cherone for VH. And after hearing the tapes, I can tell you for certain, he would have been a better fit.

It was really neat to get to hear the stories of that part of his life. The conversation then turned to his new album and recording. His studio is incredible, very top-notch. He played me some of his new album and it sounds incredible. He even offered to help me out with any questions that I might have as I start getting further involved with production and recording.

It was just a really neat experience for me. He was the real deal and just a really nice guy. Take a moment to visit his profile page at http://www.myccm.org/mitchmalloy and check out his music.

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I just wanted to post a quick update for everyone on what's been going on for me the last couple of weeks. As I mentioned in my last post, for my birthday my wife got me a Pro Tools rig to do my music on. She rocks! I finally got everything set up last night with the new desk. I'll take a picture at some point and upload it. I haven't had much of a chance to do anything with it yet but plan on really diving head first into it over the next couple of days.

One of the reasons I haven't had much time to work on it is because I've been out of town. Last week I headed out to Missouri to do some collaborating with some new friends of mine, Rick and his daughter Mandy and son Kristian.

I can't begin to tell you how great of a time I had while I was out there. I felt like a part of the family from the moment I arrived. I had a blast being out there with them and was sad to leave. We had so many ideas to work with but nowhere near the amount of time we needed.

We were able to track a couple of songs but we definitely could have used a better engineer. I'm going to try and clean up the recordings as much as I can and then post a sample of the tracks. By the way, I was the engineer :-) What can I say, I'm a drummer! I'm sure that as I spend more time on this, my engineering abilities will improve.

We're hoping to get together again as soon as possible and do some more writing. I can say that after spending 4 days of living the "musician's life" - staying up late, going to bed no earlier than 3am and then getting up late, it definitely made it rough when I had to get back into my daily 7:30-4 routine yesterday.

Quick side note, major props to my beloved UK football team for going 4-0 this year! They pulled out a great victory over Arkansas on the road this weekend. I recorded the game and had to avoid contact with all sports and news agencies until I got home so I could watch the game without knowing who had won.

Over the next couple of weeks I'll be heading up to KY for the annual start of the basketball season to take in the Big Blue Madness. Last year was my first time getting to do that. I'm even more excited about it this year since we have the new coach. Then the weekend after that I'll be playing some shows with Judah First over in East Tennessee.

Of course, I'll also be working on music and more importantly, spending time with my wife.

Until next time...
Big Blue Barry

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I just wanted to post a quick update. My birthday present from my wife just came in a couple of hours ago, it's a Pro Tools rig. My wife rocks!!!! So, if you don't hear from me for awhile it's because I'm in the process of getting everything set up. From what I hear from a couple of friends of mine who have Pro Tools, I'm going to be in for a long night tonight just installing all the software.

Until next time,
Barry

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Last night my wife and I had our regularly scheduled "date night" at Cracker Barrel like we do pretty much every Wednesday night. In case you're wondering, that's the only night they serve the Broccoli Cheese Casserole as a side item. If you're wondering who likes that, let me just say that my favorite meal is a Steak and Potato.

Anyways, I was giving her the latest update about my songwriting situation. Earlier that day I had read an interview with one of the artists that I'm writing for in which they mentioned at one point they felt God asked them if they were willing to give up their spouse for their ministry. At that point, this person realized that they had let their family and marriage fall beneath their ministry in order of priority. So they immediately made a change to fix their priorities and the blessings began to flow.

Just being completely transparent with you, my wife and I hit a crisis point a few months ago. Over the last several months I have made an effort to make sure that I'm not putting my work or my hobbies over my marriage. I told my wife a couple of months ago when things felt like they had finally turned the corner for the good that I felt like a switch had been flipped inside. As corny as this sounds, I felt like I finally became a man. I can't really explain it other than to say things have been different for us ever since. A good different.

So I was sharing that interview with my wife that I had read earlier yesterday and I told her that I wrote the artist to tell them I had went through something very similar very recently. I then asked my wife "Do you think that's what happened with us? Do you think once I got 'us' fixed, that's all God was waiting on?"

Could it really be that simple?

But any of you who have been married for any length of time probably know that getting "us" fixed isn't always that simple. But I do wonder, could that be the reason that my most recent band situations struggled like they did. Was it just a matter of me learning to truly appreciate how blessed I am to be married to my wife and making sure she knew just how treasured she is?
 
I can honestly say that I love my wife now SO MUCH MORE than I ever have. It wasn't that I didn't love her before, 'cause I did, but now, things are different. And I think she knows that too.

Anyways, I'm just wondering if the reasons for my recent turn of events could really be that simple?

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Thanks to everyone who responded to my last blog. Your feedback and encouragement was greatly appreciated. As a follow-up on that, I decided to just not respond to the guy. I didn't want to waste any more time thinking about it and wind up getting in a back-and-forth exchange. So I just let it go.

The very next day I received another e-mail from someone else who visited that same profile. They were interested in possibly recording some of my songs for their next album. Needless to say, I was ecstatic about it! We worked out the details and now I've got a collaboration agreement in place with them. As soon as I'm able to, I'll post more info about this.

Also during the weekend, I had a phone call with another person who basically requested the same thing. His daughter and son are in a group and he was wondering if I would be interested in letting them use some of my songs as well as also do some writing for them. Two people in the same weekend!!!

I'm so excited that I'm having a hard time containing myself. It almost doesn't seem real. My face is sore from all the smiling I've been doing. I'm always amazed at how gracious The Lord is with me. He treats me so much better than I deserve.

What a difference a day makes.

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Picking up where we left off from my last album review... Have you ever heard a CD and within seconds immediately knew that not only was this going to be one of your favorite Cd's, it was also going to be a CD that you ABSOLUTELY HAD to tell your friends about? Well I just found one of those Cd's!

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It's been almost a year since my last band played our first and last shows. Since then, I've filled in for another band, Judah First, on a couple of occasions . While I've had a blast getting to know those guys as well as playing shows with them, the shows haven't been as frequent as I would like.

I'm not as young as I once was and I know that I'm not going to be able to play out live forever. I'm at a point in my life where I feel like I'm at an airport waiting in "stand-by" to see if the plane is going to have a seat for me this time or if I'm going to have to wait for the next one.

I titled this blog "Patience, permission or procrastination" for a reason. I feel like I fall into one of those categories but I don't know which one. Am I being patient and just waiting for things to "feel right?" Am I waiting on God to "give me permission" to do what I feel in my heart He wants me to? Or have I already been given the "green" light and now I'm just procrastinating because of my fear of repeating the mistakes of my past experiences?

Anyone else out there know what I'm talking about?

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