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May 5, 2010 – Video, ugh!

nelsone — Wed, 05 May 2010 05:21:01 +0000

I have spent the day going over hours and hours of video. Just from January. Trying to put something together for this crazy idea I had. Seriously I don’t know how video editing people can do this. But I push through it. I”m trying to condense all these hours into digestible chunks. So about 12 hours of video for Jan is now condensed into 5 minutes. Cause… seriously, who wants to sit through all that? (this?) Anyway, a lot of quicks cuts, but I think it’s coming out nicely. As a reminder, you’ll see some of the clips below and more…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1dVKEJFfZc

30A Songwriters Festival – Video

nelsone — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:01:40 +0000

So, here is some new video from the 30A Songwriters Festival I attended in January in Santa Rosa Beach. If you didn’t catch my notes from that day you can view them here. This video is from the last day of the festival and is my last performance. This round included musicians Bob Corley, Effron White and Blake Guthrie and MC’d by Kevin Boyle. Good Times. Just before I started, someone whispered to me that we had 3 minutes left, so I sped things up just a little as Blake still had to perform. Since we had a merch table to our rate, I said what everyone always says I forget to say. Pretty much it’s “please support me by buying my stuff” only I summarized for the given time. If you missed the first video from the festival, you can view that one here when you’re done.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlgk1miVe6M

Not My Life

-Alex Nelson-

This is not how I imagined
how everything would feel
never thought, It could happen
seems I’ve gone too far to make this real
but in the end I know
that we’re just passing time

I’m a wreck, on the inside
you see through my disguise
and you see right through me
feel the pain that lies behind my eyes
but I don’t know what you
see in me

No I don’t believe it’s over
I take back all the lies I told you
and I make a wish
to turn back all the time

No I don’t believe it’s over
all the times I thought
it would be just fine
but I know that this is not my life

No this is not my life

Can you stay forever?
is it the pain you want to feel?
Could we stay together
seems I’ve pushed to hard to make this real
but you say it’s ok
it’s ok

and you know the feeling
when everything’s just right
when it feels so perfect
when I have you right here by my side
but I know it’s going to fade
it’s going to fade

No I don’t believe it’s over
I take back all the lies I told you
and I make a wish
to turn back all the time

No I don’t believe it’s over
all the times I thought
it would be just fine
but I know that this is not my life

No this is not my life

30A Songwriters Festival – Day 1

nelsone — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:46:42 +0000

Or perhaps Day zero? It’s Friday morning or Thursday night. Depends on how you look at it. Woke up early this morning around 6am and started the drive up to Santa Rosa Beach to the 1st Annual 30A Songwriters Festival. The festival officially starts tomorrow but today the organizers are holding a private party for the performers. A little get together to celebrate the start of the festival. Tomorrow evening will be the ‘official’ kick-off party which will be open to those who were able to buy tickets. The festival sold out a few days prior to today.

Tonight I met several of the artists that I’ll be performing with over the weekend including Bob Corley, Kailey Billings, Carmel Mikol, K.C. Clifford, Cody Copeland as well as many of the event’s coordinators. So many people so many names. Some pretty big names here as well. Headliners include Matthew Sweet, Susanna Hoffs, Shawn Mullins, Rodney Crowell, Jeffery Steele and the Indigo Girls. I got to meet Emily Saliers tonight at the party. Super nice.

It was a great night. I haven’t heard anyone play yet aside from what I’ve heard on the myspaces and such, but just from meeting them I have a good feeling things are going to be really great. The event is SUPER ORGANIZED. Amazing.

I arrived in the afternoon and proceeded to check in. Everything went smooth. The accommodations they provided were amazing and the area was gorgeous. Santa Rosa Beach is located in Florida’s panhandle. It’s got a super soft, super white sand on the beaches. Just amazing. Anyway, just checking in tonight. Gotta start getting ready for tomorrow. Show starts at 8:30 pm over at Stinky’s Fish Camp. I’ll be collected some video to be posted later when I get some time to go through it all. In the mean time, here are some photos. The motel had a courtyard with restrooms. I liked the way they labelled them “men” and “women.”