I received my last report from Spotify the other day. I have had over 600 listenings on my songs which is very satisfying! But, it doesn’t pay very much. So far I have collected 3.60 $. I’m not going to be rich on Spotify.

On sunday I went back to Pustervik and the open stage they have one sunday per month. A lot of people were there and it was a friendly atmosphere. I played 2 song and below is a video from the performance.

It is Sunday and I decided to visit Visans vänner in the nice spring weather. They have an open mic every other Sunday with a pretty good crowd. I played my three newest songs. We had a good time and got coffe and inexpensive sandwiches.

I have been working lately on a new song. I plan to write 10 new songs and then record my next CD. I think I’m up to 7 or 8 songs now. Only a few more to go. The last song has some similarities with Hank Williams song “Ramblin’ man blues”, about having the urge to travel and see new places. I played it in public for the first time last week.

I also invested in a new songwriting notebook. I thought it would give good “karma” with something special, so it is a notebook made in India from recycled paper.

I sent off my new song to NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) to get some input. The evaluation came back yesterday and was pretty positive. I don’t think I need to rewrite to much 🙂 .

The new notebook

This week I did the round of open mics in town. On Thursday we went to restaurant Västerhus which have a popular open mic. A lot of people showed up in the crowd and it has a friendly atmosphere. I played three songs backed up by great musicians.

A week ago it was time again for the open stage at Pustervik. I had a little bad luck this time. The b-string on the guitar decided to give up so the guitar went out of tune in the middle of the song. I retuned, but the same thing happened on the next song. Not much I could do about it. Was fun anyway.

During the holidays, I have been busy recording my upcoming album. It will take a while before everything is in place, probably not before the summer. Today I have been recording the song about instagram. I play all instruments. It will be guitar, bass, lap steel and banjo.

Lately I have spent the evenings with recording new music. It will hopefully be a new record within the next year. Tonight I have taken time off from recording and play the open mic at Dubliners.

I posted last week about Göteborg open stage. The organizers filmed the event so it is now on youtube. Please check it out below.

We went to Pustervik on sunday for the new open stage. The venue is nice and there were a lot of people in the crowd. I played two songs. Not so nice was that my wife fell on the stairs and broke her arm.  😦