An Opportunity to Share

I have written before about my little hobby of creating music. It is just something that I enjoy doing, for whatever it is worth. And it is nothing that I ever take even remotely seriously.

I am not in a band. I am not a studio musician. I am not a session player. I don't do it professionally. But I do make "music," and I do enjoy sharing what I do, and the benefit is that some people actually enjoy it.

It makes even the tiniest of efforts worthwhile.

The interesting thing is that today, when it comes to indie music, which is essentially the "group" I am part of (that's basically unsigned bands), the access to an audience is greater than ever before.

My music can compete alongside pop stuff and other more established artists on Spotify and iTunes and Amazon and Pandora or wherever else music is streamed. My music can appear on YouTube for people to enjoy as well.

The way I see it, there are 8 billion people on the planet. If even just one half of one percent like what I do, so be it. That leaves me with 400 million people. Even if only one percent of them are my audience, I can still reach 4 million people.

By the way, I don't even reach that many people. Still, I reach enough that it makes it all worth sharing.

And besides, I get quite a lot of enjoyment from doing it. If 100 people like what I do the effort of sharing it is worth it.

All of this is to say that a few weeks ago I was just playing around a bit and shared what I did with a small circle of people who said, "Hey, I really like that." So, I decided to get it out for more to have an opportunity to enjoy if they so chose to. And of course, to share it with my current audience, small thought it may be.

Incidentally, there are two new songs I am currently working on that I may release soon. Just wanting to do some final touches on them. Just trying to clean them up a bit, something I did not do with the current one I want to share with you now.

Sunny Days. I released it to all of the popular streaming platforms, but figured I would share the link to the Spotify version and the YouTube version here.

By the way, it's raw and purposely lo-fi, and also quite a bit outside of my norm.

None of my music conforms to traditional structure or rules. I just do what I do, and do my own thing, and because I am not doing it professionally, I have the liberty of doing whatever I want.

I love that freedom.

It's not to say any of it is good. But to me it's just my thing and again, some people actually enjoy it.

This post was also an opportunity for me to say I have taken a bit of a break from read.cash but I want to get back in here full swing in the coming days. That means coming back to write more as well as get around to the important people who continue to make this site worth stopping into rather often.

You, the real people who make this site great, who have stuck with it despite Rusty's absence, who have done the work to send a message to the powers that be that the site matters to us, is important to us, and worth sticking around for.

You know, that small audience that matters. Like the few people who like what I do musically.

Lead image by Porwest, screenshot of YouTube page for Sunny Days recently released.