joel preston west

September 21, 2009

September 13, 2009

So long, summer.

September 7, 2009

A sketch of a new song above the Eugene Columns, filmed and edited by Toby.

August 26, 2009

Happy Birthday Margie

August 21, 2009

August 18, 2009

August 16, 2009

I’m heading to North County with Doug this morning to record a song for an organization called Bring Me Hope. They work with orphans in China and have commissioned a handful of artists to write songs inspired by some of the orphans’ stories for a book/cd that will shed light on the terrible problem of abandoned children there.  More to come about when/where that will be available.

Tonight I’ll be back at Petro’s to polish up a final mix of the first Tree Ring song with hopes to have it out this month.

In other words, new music is coming. Slowly but surely.

August 11, 2009

We had a great night, thanks to everybody who came out and trooped through the heat.  Photos from all three sets on Carly’s Flickr.

August 10, 2009

Outside of Boone, North Carolina

August 7, 2009

Sezio’s online shop launched today and I have a T-shirt in the first round of Artist Series Apparel.  See how cool they make this guy look?

August 3, 2009

Sunny Cove, Santa Cruz

July 31, 2009

July 29, 2009

Chesapeake Bay was warm but not welcoming in the dusk light. Too many unknowns in its beauty. No one out besides two boys with a flashlight and a helicopter in the distance. The hot breeze made little white cowlicks in the tide on its way to my delighted hair and the water bit gently at my ankles. Sand crabs ran sideways from the shadowy footprints they had been hiding in, unsure whether they were safe from our approaching feet that shuffled through the brown sugar sand. They made us nervous too and we walked awkwardly with our gait determined by their skittish movements. The last bit of color was pastel and our conversation was disappearing with it so as we made our way back up the boardwalk, we let the cicadas take over. Step by step we watched the trees swallow any last piece of the day and it went without saying that all of these unknowns would inevitably illuminate the things we do know. I fell in love with everything all at once when my eyes began to scour desperately for light in the muggy and foreign woods.

July 28, 2009

July 26, 2009