It's been a long time!

Wow - As I welcome myself back to the blog-o-sphere and thank you for stopping by to check out my blog - I'm currently bunkered down in Maryland, smack-dab between Baltimore and Washington DC.

Work on Album #3 has begun and it will be quite a treat! This one will have various instruments as I'm recording it with a full band and I'm doing a lot of writing on the piano/keyboard as opposed to the guitar ;)

There is a video documentary being created about the making of the album, chuck full of interviews, inside-looks at practice sessions and studio sessions, etc, etc.

There is also a FUNdraiser at dancoyle.com that is attempting to raise $3000 by Dec 18th to fund the making of the album. Along with your donation you get a ton of really fun prizes for donating at every level (starting for as little as $1) and all the way up ;)

That's it for now, I'm going to enjoy my orange/peppermint/ginger tea and surf the web and start booking the spring 2010 tour (oh the fall tour was great and there are still 3 shows left: Dec 4 at Old Bowie Town Grille in MD, Dec 11 at Boulder Coffee in Rochester, and Dec 15 at Kenny's Castaways in NYC) -- connect with me at twitter.com/dan_coyle and http://www.facebook.com/insidethesunshinefactory and stay updated every week with my free podcast on itunes or http://www.gcast.com/user/dancoyle/podcast/www_dancoyle_com

Much Love, Many Thanks!

Dan
www.dancoyle.com
dan@dancoyle.com

Get this Train Running Again!

OK - I'm back for good now! Given all of the excitement with stalking and traveling and so on and so forth I let this go...but never shall I waiver again!

Oh sweet Jesus there has been so many things going on. Just today I created an option on my homepage (www.dancoyle.com) to purchase autographed photos...it seems like a really cool idea to me, so I hope it catches on. I also launched my "I'll come play a private show anywhere for you" campaign. Essentially, you can purchase a private show and have me come play for you with as many or as few people there to enjoy the performance as you would like. Shows are 60-90min in length and you can request songs, etc.

So we'll see where this all goes, but I hope it only keeps increasing. I've been super tired and I have a live stream tonight and Thursday this week at www.ustream.com so that should be fun; but for now I'm going to shower and try and nap before the LIVE Stream...hope to see you there!

Me & 50,000 People

So I found out yesterday that the Kansas City Riverfest where I'm playing over the 4th of July is expecting 30-50 THOUSAND people...I would say it will be my biggest show to-date.

I posted some new songs - if you have any idea what genre I should place them in, please let me know because I really don't listen to the style of music I'm playing right now...kind of strange, but that's just the way it is. Here are the links to the free demos of the songs:

http://dancoyle.com/resources/Who+I+Am+1.mp3

http://dancoyle.com/resources/Shine+Right+Through+You.mp3

http://dancoyle.com/resources/Fly$2C+Fly$2C+Fly+Away.mp3

http://dancoyle.com/resources/Alright+Now.mp3

http://dancoyle.com/resources/For+a+Long+Long+Time.mp3

there's also one more new one - if you email me at dan@dancoyle.com I can send it to you.

Hope everyone's week is going well! We're ramping up for the CD Release Party here in Chicago on June 26th. Should be good! Talk to ya soon ;)

The Songs Keep On Comin!

What a day. I was telling a friend today that I remember when I first started to play the guitar it was amazing...I couldn't stop - and it didn't matter what I was playing, it was just so much fun; and this is how I feel again doing the new music - it's so refreshing and so interesting to me to see what comes out and how different it is than anything I've done before. If you want to hear some samples email me at dan@dancoyle.com and I can send you some mp3's for you to listen to. I always appreciate feedback and input!

I launched a podcast that I'll release once per week (probably every Monday) that will chronicle the rise of the music. You can listen or subscribe to it here http://www.gcast.com/user/dancoyle/podcast/www_dancoyle_com

Great news from the guys who are putting on the Kansas City Riverfest where I'll be playing - they might have some spots for me to play on the 4th of July too! Now I just have to see if Southwest can change my flight! That reminds me, I have to call the guy who booked me...Have a good night!

Blog #1 - Does this count as a blog now?

Ok, so I'm trying to start a blog - and I'm so gul-darn technologically illiterate! I'm going to try this and see what happens ;) If this doesn't work, we'll try something else! Well I woke up this morning and my hard-drive had crashed...so I took it to the Apple store and got it fixed. Only really crappy thing is I lost 2 songs that I wrote/recorded yesterday, but I still had the mp3's that I put on my iTunes. So I got home and recorded the first podcast and wrote/recorded one new song...not bad for a sunday night.

Now it's 1:20 in the morning and I'm winding down - oh insomnia, you're so good to me ;) CD Release party for "Random Thoughts and Incomplete Sentences" (http://www.cdbaby.com/all/dancoyle) is next Friday, June 26th at 10pm here in Chicago at the Risque Cafe - it's Free and should be a lot of fun! I have some new performance things that I'll be trying out ;)

Alright, well it's bedtime for me now. If you want to follow me on twitter go to
http://twitter.com/dan_coyle and there are new songs, and I mean new as in totally different from my usual stuff at http://dancoyle.com/music.html and you can subscribe to or listen to my podcast (a new one each week) at
http://www.gcast.com/user/dancoyle/podcast/www_dancoyle_com

Thanks for stoppin' by!

DC
dan@dancoyle.com
www.dancoyle.com