I’ve been a songwriter / touring musician for over thirty years. These days I’m spending most of my time in Argentina, where I’ve been living with my family since 2000. But I keep writing songs and recording them. I also write some prose and poetry. Photography has been known to happen.
You’ll see all of that here. Some of it might be in process, unfinished, fragmentary. At the moment I’m making a record here in my home studio, uploading rough mixes along the way. This is not “dumbed down” audio. In general the resolution is as high as my internet connection and Substack will allow. And all of it is available to any subscriber. No paywall. But they are not final mixes, or even arrangements.
The final product—a full-length album distributed via download and/or a still undetermined physical medium—will be distributed to paid subscribers only. I’m not associated with a record company any more. I fantasize about ditching Spotify and the like. So this right here just might be my music industry. I’m not sure. But that seems to be the way things are going. What began as an experiment in April 2023 has become my primary creative outlet. I love it here: the creative freedom, owning my “content”, the interactions with subscribers.
I hope you’ll subscribe (paid or not). Enjoy. - RS
