Debut a Frubble!

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Thanks so much to everyone who came out to see us at Frubble! You guys made it a lot of fun. I guess we'll have to make an effort to do some more of the all ages show as we got a very good turn out of people who aren't yet allowed in to the second wind bars.

Big thanks again to Mark and Caroline at Frubble for having us, we can't wait to come back! If any of you haven't been yet, you should make it a point to head on out there. they have great raps and I can personally speak for their Strawberry smoothies. With internet access, a Weii and big...

Gigs and gigs and gigs.

If you've seen our calendar you've realized that we have quite a few shows coming up. I'm very excited about all of them, but our return to Second Wind Santee and the show for the San Diego Blood Bank I'm especially siked for.

It's been a long time, I think about eight months since we've played Santee, so we should get a good fun crowd and the band always seems to step it up an extra bit when that happens and the show on the 13th is for a great cause and cheers to the students for coming up with such a creative idea to promote the event. I'm not sure whatelse would...

Jamming with Serious Guies, performing at the beach and recording.

Wow, it's been a while. Hope you're all doing ok.

We've been very busy over in CWB land. We had a show down at Portugalia in OB which was a blast. A lot of folks down there who I haven't seen in a while and they hadn't heard the new songs. Made for a real good time.

One of the best times I've had in a while though was the last time we played at the second wind and Eric pointed out that 2 of the players from Serious Guies were there for a little bit. Interestingly enough, the very next night they were playing at a bar right down the street from where I'm...

Rehearsal today and poker friends.

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Hope you're having a great week.

Just wanted to check in and say hey. We've got a rehearsal coming up in a couple hours. We got two new songs we're working on which brings the current total of tunes that are being considered for the new album up to eleven. Pretty exciting stuff. We're also going to spend some time getting ready for the show on the 25th. I hope you all come out and see it. I think we're taking the early spot this time, so that'll be fun.

For those of you who didn't know, I'm a pretty avid poker player. Fun...

Go Saints!

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Hope you had a great weekend. I didn't do too terribly much, besides eat a lot of pizza and watch the superbowl. For the first time in a few years, the team I was cheering for actually won, so I was pretty excited!

Other than that, the country band I play in had a little birthday party gig on Saturday night, of course, the CWB had a gig Wednesday, which for those of you who were there, I'm glad you made it. Trying out a few of those original songs without Jeff was a challenge, but his attention was required elsewhere. This was partly my...

Recording.

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As I told you last time we had a little recording session on Monday. We went in at about 10 AM and had a little bit of trouble getting the drum sounds we wanted. New heads and we didn't have 1 of the toms that we really wanted, but we fiddled and worked it until we got some tones we're happy with. This probably won't be the version of the song that ends up on the album, but we had a few reasons for wanting to get a quick, but solid demo of it.

I think all the technical problems with the drums may have effected us the rest of the session 'cause...

Recording session today.

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We're just packing up the van and getting ready to head over to the studio. This is my first time recording original music in about 4 years, so needless to say, I'm pretty excited!

Like I said in the last blog, we're going to be putting down tracks for 1 song today to see how it goes. I'm pretty excited about the tune we chose and I can't wait for you guys to get the chance to hear it. I really think it's a cool direction for us to go. For sure the arrangement is different than anything we've tried before, so I'm siked to hear your...

Tired.

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Sorry I haven't written for a few days, but I haven't even had my computer turned on.

Wednesday morning we went over to the studio and did a re-write for a bunch of the new songs, making sure the hooks are good and plentiful, hammoring out the arrangements etcetera. Then on Thursday I just had a few things around the house to do, then Friday I was up early in the morning for court.

For those of you who don't know, a former business associate took me to court back in April, I couldn't afford a lawyer and lost the trial, so have had...

Big rewrite coming up.

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I was up till about two this morning working on a couple of new song ideas. I think at least one of them has a shot to make it on our next album, but I'm not quite sure yet. We start rewrite sessions for the new stuff tomorrow morning. So basically the way it works is I write a song, bring it in and I sit down with the studio guy and we polish it up... make sure it's got a good hook and try and figure out what the arrangement is going to be.

I've never really been through this part of the process, so I'm kind of excited. It's always a...

The Cory Wilkins Band Signed!

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I told you guys last blog I had some kinda cool news. Here goes. The Cory Wilkins Band has signed with local indipendent label King's Ransome Records. We're fortunate enough to join a fantastic artist roster on the label for the next two years. We're going through a period of artist development right now... just had our first session yesterday which was a blast. So now it's off to polish up the new songs, make sure they're ready to go and we will probably start recording pretty soon.

Obviously no projection on when this thing might be done by...

What's coming up for the band, internet radio and end of football season.

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We got a little bit of rain here in San Diego, though not nearly as much as projected which is probably a good thing. I guess it's supposed to be on and off this week and we might get up to twelve inches... yikes!

Ok, so up next for the band is some more bookings. My long-time pal and fellow musician Jefferson Jay has this cool little restaurant/bar in OB called Portugalia where we'll probably have a show coming up in the next month or two. Nothing booked yet, but it will be. the place is pretty cool with good food, lots of drinks and right in...

Thursday night, new band member, cool stuff.

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I'd like to give a huge, gigantic thanks to everyone who came out to the show on thursday night. I know it was a late one on a week night and all. Your support means a lot to us here at the CWB, so we thank you very much.

I hope you all enjoyed the new songs and saw the performance as a success. We had a couple technical problems, my monitor went completely dead right round about the fifth song, but what the heck, the show kept going.

I thought for a first time out it was a pretty respectible showing, we played all the songs...

Sunday Sunday.

Hey everyone. This is my first blog here on song swagger. I've made various attempts to blog a few other times, but have always neglected them after a month or so. Hopefully I can have a little discipline here and keep you all up to date on what the band is doing.

This past week we've been working very hard preparing for Thursday night's show at the Second Wind Navaho. Jeff Sers, our new guitarist was going to start playing with us back in December, but hurt his hand or some such nonsense and was unable to play guitar for a few weeks, so we've been rehearsing for our...