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            <title>Looking towards 2010</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ok, things have been busy. If you have kept up with my calendar you know I have been doing my Second Life shows regularly.  This time of year we begin spending a lot of time at our place in Terlingua Texas.  Last month was the Al Barlow Music Campout.  We had friends from Florida and friends from California come and spend a week with us here.  We also spent a long weekend at home in Denton attending a Second Life jam in Addison Texas. <br /><br />I'm working on a gig just before Christmas with both of my girls and of course mom and son in law.  It promises to be a good one.<br /><br />We will be back in Terlingua after Christmas and I will be playing my annual gig at La Kiva on January 1st.<br /><br />If you haven't heard one of my live shows on Second Life I would like to invite you to tune in any night you see posted on my calendar.  Just click on the venue and you should get a shoutcast page where you can listen in.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Second Life Convention</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I just returned from a long weekend in San Francisco at the Second Life Convention.  It was a blast and a chance to see my SL friends and network.  I came back with new knowledge of how I can improve my promotion and the attendees got to see me perform live and in person on the music showcase stage.<br /><br />Soon I will begin doing live video broadcasts frequently with video feeds to Second Life and also available to view on the net through a web site called ustream.com  To watch you have to have a login so if you are inclined, go to <a href="http://ustream.com">http://ustream.com</a> and pick a login so you will be ready.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>July 2009</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[We just returned from a vacation road trip.  Below are links to read my weekly blogs and view video<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2aw.com/roadtrip1.pdf">http://2aw.com/roadtrip1.pdf</a><br /><a href="http://2aw.com/roadtrip2.pdf">http://2aw.com/roadtrip2.pdf</a><br /><a href="http://2aw.com/roadtrip3.pdf">http://2aw.com/roadtrip3.pdf</a><br /><a href="http://2aw.com/roadtrip4.pdf">http://2aw.com/roadtrip4.pdf</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Z16vwVsL4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Z16vwVsL4</a>   youtube yellowstone video<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORL_x0qnFSA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORL_x0qnFSA</a>    youtube road trip 2<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNJuU0jzuhw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNJuU0jzuhw</a>     youtube road trip 3<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_J8g7im7NM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_J8g7im7NM</a>     youtube road trip 4]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Welcome 2009</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Wow how time flys. I can't believe that I haven't updated this page since last April.  When my 31 year old daughter writes a song about how time gets away from you, it is time to reflect.<br />2008 was a pretty good year for me.  I had a couple of high profile gigs and a ton of live shows on Second Life.   Second Life continues to provide me with a loyal audience and an avenue to get my music out in cd sales and music downloads.<br />I look forward to and expect to book more regional shows in the DFW, Houston, and hill country areas.  I try to keep my calendar up to date so check it often.  Even if you are not a Second Life participant, you can still listen in on the music stream at the appointed time.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Rainbow Ranch Kids</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When I was in New Zealand both times I played at the local theater in Marton.  Marton is a small town of about 3 thousand and they have their own radio station that plays my music. My daughter Bonnie accompanied me on the first tour.  Our opener was a group of local kids coached by my friend and producer of the show Anne George.  Well they have come a long way and now have been invited to the USA to perform in a festival.  I've pledged a large sum to help them.  Please watch this video and see if you might want to help.  <a href="http://2aw.com/rrk.htm">http://2aw.com/rrk.htm</a>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>March 2008</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I neglected to mention the performance of a lifetime in my last blog.  I got a chance to play with my girls, Bonnie, Eleanor and a cameo from mother Marti at the most coveted hill country venue in Texas Gruene Hall.  We opened for Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis for their Christmas show back in December.  Check out the photo on the photo page.<br />Second Life continues to provide the networking I need to book shows around the country.  I'm traveling to Key West Fla at the end of April to participate in a songwriter festival there courtisy of a second life friend.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Getting Going in 2008</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Well it has been a while since my last update.  Things keep progressing with my music.  I have written some new songs and am still very much involved with performances in the virtual world of Second Life.<br />I'm still looking for home concerts around the country. If you could provide a livingroom and a few guests, let me know, I might just be able to work it in to my schedule.<br />I bought a digital looper that allows me to record during my songs and playback at the rhythm track to my leads.  It has taken a lot of practice but I'm starting to master it.  Try tuning in to one of my Second Life shows sometime soon.  They are posted on the calendar page of the web site.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New Video available</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I just posted a live video of the Cadillac song on youtube.  You can find it here <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=ihw0uzDhBiY&mode=user&search=">http://youtube.com/watch?v=ihw0uzDhBiY&mode=user&search=</a><br />Don't forget to check out the breastman video too and please rate and comment on them<br /><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=oqK3CSErsn8&mode=user&search=">http://youtube.com/watch?v=oqK3CSErsn8&mode=user&search=</a>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>New CD available</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I've just finished putting together a 2 cd set of a concert I performed on June 29th of last month.  I dediced to leave it as was recorded...warts and all.  It is the complete performance with no edits or breaks except of course between Set 1 and Set 2.  I'm pretty proud of it.  It was a great audience and a good performance from me for the most part.  It is available now directly from me and will be next month on CD Baby.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Second Life (updated april 20)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If you have had a look at my performing calendar lately you will realize that a high percentage of my performances are on the internet these days....particularly on Second Life.  When I start talking about it to my friends, my daughters get this smirk on their face and their eyes roll back in their heads.  I guess until you experience it first hand, it is hard to grasp the scale and the entertainment value of it. Most of my musician friends don't get it either.  "How much money can you make there?" is kind of the standard question.  Well I do make Linden dollas (their currency) and it is convertable to real dollars, but by normal standards of pay for music it is pretty minimal.  So what is Second Life anyway?  It is a 3D virtual world where you can exist in your second life as a life like figure called an "Avitar."  I won't go into the extensiveness of the place, but just say it is unimagined by most people. Quite simply, I'm just there to play music for the aviatars (and their owners)  and every time I play I am playing to much larger crowds of listeners than I do at my "real life" gigs.  Hey, I haven't quit booking those at all, but I quit booking the bar gigs where most of the time no one ever listens to my songs.  In Second Life I am performing to a "listening" audience.  I know, because I'm selling and delivering my mp3 tracks on the spot at my shows.  And my cd sales are better than when I was doing bar gigs in the past.  It is getting my music out there a lot faster. You do not have to be in Second Life to listen to the shows.  They are streamed in high quality sound to a shoutcast site first and then beamed into the club in Second Life where I play.  When you go to my calendar, if you click on the club link, it will take you to that Shoutcast page.  From there if the stream is online, you just click on "listen" and it should launch your music player and off you go.  Remember when ebay first came on the scene?  It just seemed like a novelty....well look at it now.  Second Life is well on it's way to becoming that kind of scale.  I plan to be there as an established performer....well I already am, but you can be a mover and a shaker quicker when you are on the ground floor of an emerging new world.  Check out <a href="http://secondlife.com">http://secondlife.com</a> and read some of the news articles that have been written about it.  Stop in at one of my live shows sometime either on the net or in Second Life....]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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