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Mike Bankhead

Apr 3 2022

About music and building community at open mic events

I would imagine that many towns with enough musicians has open mic events.  Our does.  Some of them are truly open... arrive, jump on a sign up list, play.  Some of them are curated... anyone can play, but you must…

Mar 20 2022

Songwriting Story - Bright Ideas

 

This song started as a voice memo, a brief line of lyrics and the slightest suggestion of melody sung to my phone. The line in question was this one:

tell your teacher I got some bright ideas

Admittedly, that's not…

Mar 14 2022

New single "Hold the Wick" is available pretty much everywhere tomorrow, 15th March 2022

 

Almost a year ago, on Sunday March 28th, 2021, I went to Reel Love Recording Company and recorded this single. Brian Hoeflich played drums, Jeremy Raucci played guitar, and Patrick Himes sang some vocals and made it all sound good…

Mar 6 2022

Music as a Time Machine, Part 7 - Love is Here

I have mentioned before that I took a trip to France in 2002, and only took five compact discs with me for the duration of the trip.  As you might imagine, I listened to these albums over and over and…

Feb 28 2022

Review of my Music Writing Exercise experience

I'm not a journalist or professional writer, but I like to write, so my blog is a way to scratch that particular itch. To some extent, my Twitter feed also serves this purpose. I learned this year of a music…

Feb 20 2022

Anecdote makes its return to streaming services tomorrow

You might remember that I have a song about a particularly unpleasant experience with the police, and that TINO had the kindness to feature on it. The story behind writing "Anecdote" is right over here, on a previous blog…

Feb 11 2022

Amplified: Carolyn Shulman

Carolyn Shulman is currently from Colorado. She had a lot to say, which I strongly encourage, so we'll skip the preamble and get around to amplifying her voice after the picture.

 

Photo by Jessie Matteson

 

1.  Let's hear the elevator…

Feb 5 2022

Restaurant Review - Mofongos in North Hollywood, California

If your restaurant is called Mofongos, it would be reasonable to expect a Puerto Rican restaurant with mofongo prominently featured among the culinary offerings. This spot in North Hollywood fulfilled and surpassed both of those expectations on my recent…

Jan 29 2022

Music streaming platforms - let's talk about Audiomack

 

To begin, I'd like to make it clear right up front that Audiomack is not sponsoring me in any way, and I am not being paid to talk about them. All of the experiences I am going to relay to…

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Jan 13 2022

Rebirth of five singles

What's your favorite music streaming service?  There are many to choose from.  The most popular ones are Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Napster, Pandora, Spotify, Tidal, and YouTube Music, depending on where you might be from.  There are dozens of…

Jan 3 2022

I am working on a new EP. I'd like to tell you about it.

I think today is a good day to tell you about my in-progress EP.  Let's pretend I'm a journalist and use the 5 W questions, shall we?

 

Photo by Joshua Chan

 

WHY?

I wrote a great deal of songs during…

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Jan 1 2022

Restaurant Review - Hamburger Wagon in Miamisburg, Ohio

The name of this restaurant describes exactly what they do and exactly what they are.  This is a cart with wheels, also known as a wagon.  They make and sell hamburgers.  That's it, that's the description.

Here is their website…

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