February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

willis fireball (@fireball)

progress: 31

winner!
joined: February 1 2004
location: Alaska, USA
website: willisfireball.com
influences: the hermit life

Bio

i've done this every year since 2004. lately been trying different things -- collaborations, sound collages, feasts.

2012 has come and gone...
i did 15 songs in the first 15 days of the month.
then i did 14 songs on the 25th of the month.
i did a cool random collab with @blindkiwi.
and at the last minute i added my words and vocals to a collab with fellow fawmvet @ericdistad. them vox were sloppy -- i'll probably redo them now that i know what i was trying to do in the first place...

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i live in alaska. in a small village of about 100 inupiaq/ingaliqmiut eskimos. on an island in the bering strait.

thanks, burr. nice work. quite the monster, this thing.

2004 15 songs ~ founding FAWM
2005 18 songs ~ little naked milestone
2006 16 songs ~ memories of horses
2007 15 songs ~ headwaters
2008 16 songs ~ aniak trains
2009 45 songs ~ the high road in hard times
2010 26 collaboration songs ~ the night country
2011 38 things ~ world spins once
2012 31 songs ~ bright bright brief candle
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2012 Songs

1	song for jenn	17 comments // 3 months ago
2	and but for the sky	5 comments // 3 months ago
3	ooh la la, la niña	6 comments // 3 months ago
4	The Well Has Run Dry (with blindkiwi)	22 comments // 3 months ago
5	song for fidel	5 comments // 3 months ago
6	the big game	5 comments // 3 months ago
7	scrawny-legged tina	7 comments // 3 months ago
8	song for buffalo	2 comments // 3 months ago
9	chernobyl	5 comments // 3 months ago
10	not saying this is good	3 comments // 3 months ago
11	song for the serpent	2 comments // 3 months ago
12	sun melts the snow electric	4 comments // 3 months ago
13	dozens	2 comments // 3 months ago
14	effi letzpants	1 comment // 3 months ago
15	auricle	3 comments // 3 months ago
16	morning after	2 comments // 3 months ago
17	waiting for daylight	zong // 2 months ago
18	big shadows	zong // 2 months ago
19	how much coffee?	1 comment // 2 months ago
20	first verse same as the last	2 comments // 2 months ago
21	the wind is the breath of the gods	1 comment // 2 months ago
22	dog	1 comment // 2 months ago
23	big dance tonight	1 comment // 2 months ago
24	warmer places	1 comment // 2 months ago
25	this messy feast	1 comment // 2 months ago
26	ukulele-playing barack obama doll	zong // 2 months ago
27	the michener waltz	zong // 2 months ago
28	age of flight	1 comment // 2 months ago
29	halos	zong // 2 months ago
30	song for the dusk	1 comment // 2 months ago
31	When Winter Ends (with ericdistad)	5 comments // 2 months ago

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rickamorphis 2 months ago

Hey there Sir Fireball, thanks very much for you comment on my 'WHHarrison' song. I remember hearing of that collection of songs about the presidents...I must track that down! Always great to hear from a Founding Fawmer...congrats on your output.
stephencope 2 months ago

Various parts. Mostly in Phnom Penh, but also Kampong Cham and Kampong Thom. Beautiful beautiful places. And loveliest people, my best friends.
tiedyehero 2 months ago

Thanks for your awesome comment. If you'd like to play that song you have my permission, I mean, I've never been covered. But if not, that's fine too! Thanks again
kdogg 2 months ago

You are the ulitimate FAWMster. They should make you a tshirt or something. Seriously. How do you do it??? Amazing, Fball...truly ammmaaazziiiiiinnnnnng.
errol 3 months ago

ALLLOOOO!! How goes the alaska? Ooooh, you're almost done! Congrats! And sorry I had to go so quickly on gmail chat. I came back and you were gone!

Anyway, thanks for the comment on my song. As you can see... I've not been doing much fawming this year. Well, other than harassing people on the forums.
steffan 3 months ago

No song! All yours!
kaylou 3 months ago

Thanks for the comment! I may get a demo up but I haven't written a melody to the song yet. And you are right - the escape theme isn't unique to the teen years. I mainly named it that because of the few lines mentioning school grades and feeling pressure from authority figures. Thank you again!
wyatt 3 months ago

Thanks on the Earth thing. Right on , I'd like to hear a couple versions of this one especially. Ir's just a possibility on the other so may or may not happen--It's all good
fuzzy 3 months ago

Hey; thanx for trying to listen to my song (the William Burroughs one). It was my uploading mistake; it's working now.

http://files.fawmers.com/fuzzy/MyGoldfishIsAReincarnationOf%20WilliamBurroughs.mp3
wyatt 3 months ago

On "Earth" ---Lemme know if you wanta' take a crack at musicating it. Got another possibility but you've got first dibs if you want
(Interesting place you live there)
Just listened to the "Well" song with B K--Love it!1 My kinda' song
artslut 3 months ago

Thanks for the comment. It's appreciated.
froley 3 months ago

Hey, thanks for the comment on my song. It would definitely be a challenge to fit vocals to my music - I can't sing worth a damn so I don't even try. This is my second FAWM, so it's possible we've crossed paths before!
blindkiwi 3 months ago

Just sent you an email
blindkiwi 3 months ago

Hi fireball, yes, it's official, we are a collab

Yes I usually prefer to do lyrics first, It has been a slow start for me this year, about 5 half written lyrics and not one completed. Maybe this will be kick I need. Do you have a genre or topic preference?
caseewilson 3 months ago

Thank you for your comments please don't give up on doing piano chords, when I started, all I could do was bang out some chords too! I look forward to hearing more of your work
brzan 3 months ago

Thanks for your comments on Moja Zena!
ericdistad 3 months ago

Here comes number 9!