Okay.  These come in four categories.  I’ll explain each in detail.  We’ll start with the most fun (If you prefer [and since they do it better anyway], you can just watch the YouTube Channel).

I. Live

Sex, drugs, rock, roll, beer, whisky, blisters, sweating profusely in front of people, blowing our lungs out, dancing our legs off.  All for you.

Love Is Something That You Do – Taj Tuesdays Open Mic

Comfest 2009

Peach District Classic 2009

Gallery Hop

II. Visual Songs

Something slightly new.  Let’s say you want to write a song about playing on the playground as a kid.  So you’ve got a few chords, and you need to start adding lyrics.  So you start picking out certain details, the blisters on your hands from the monkey bars, the smell of the mulch, the puddle in the tire swing, etc.  But you’re not Dylan and you can’t get away with fifteen verses, so you have to start picking certain details.  What if, instead of attempting to describe a certain object perfectly, you film that exact object?  And since video is distributed just as easily as audio (if not easier) nowadays, why not just film the lyrics you’d want to put?

The Picnic

Andy’s Graduation

III. Music Videos

These are the most obvious, using the tried and true method of “now that we have this song, let’s add video to get people to like the song more.  I’ve completed one so far, to “Driving.”  It’s entirely composed of all 3,000 or so pictures taken on one of those classic American cross-country road trips, Columbus-Seattle-San Fran-Columbus.  Best experienced on acid.

Driving

IV. Guthrie

When Woody Guthrie started writing songs, he worked in the classic folk tradition of reworking existing folk songs, adding his own lyrics to the modern issues of the day.  In that same vein, I’m after the same thing, and uploading them on YouTube (true, a highly-overdone thing to do, but what other options does the modern day folk troubadour have?).

So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Ya

The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done

Hobo’s Lullaby

The World Wide Web