...And The Best Part After Nine Months...
Like a dude on your front porch playing his repertoire
Nine months later
On October 1st 2024 I started my Substack Sessions with a weekly song without any bells and whistles - just my voice and my acoustic guitar (#livemusic) - one song & one microphone - that’s it!
On January 1st 2025 I started to release those songs with a three-month delay on Spotify, YouTube Music and the other digital platforms. Now half a year and 41 (Substack) and 28 (Spotify and the rest) later, it’s a work in progress and since May 19th I added a livestream - Zonx & Flavas - on my YouTube channel where I do my daily warmup & chat. I initially planned to do this here on Substack but the sound quality was beyond terrible. Maybe in the future I will bring the livestream back to Substack when a fixed update will solve this problem.
But back to October 1st. I had no idea how this would pan out. I only knew that I wanted to make something that shows #livemusic without any big production behind it. In a way just a dude sitting next to you outside on your front porch playing his repertoire with original compositions and covers. Nothing fancy!
The best part: every Friday a new song is released and added to the Substack Sessions playlist
So now here you have it: A playlist full of songs - Spotify | YouTube Music for your afterwork hang with some friends and family, an ice cold beverage and maybe some snacks. Some songs are well-known hits, others are worth being discovered. Choose shuffle and loop mode and go.
Every Thursday I’m releasing a song exclusively here on Substack for you and I thank you very much for subscribing and supporting my work here on my newsletter - My Songs & Stories.
Regarding my livestream on YouTube, it’s growing nicely since May 19th with almost 200 new subscribers which pushed my subscribers well over the 1’000 mark and I’m learning a lot. But again I want to keep it simple and direct and with just my phone and the YouTube app to do my daily livestream.
Every Sunday morning I’m doing a livestream directly from my wife’s hotel & coffeehouse in Vaduz / Liechtenstein where I’m performing with my acoustic guitar & piano starting at 10am CET for the guests enjoying an excellent coffee and maybe a New-York-style bagel with a soup or salad.
Some ask on my daily livestream where I’d live and so when I’m on the road to my gigs I stream directly from the road with some tourist guide narration (chuckle).
Last week I tested the signal on the road with two livestreams driving through four countries from Liechtenstein to Switzerland over to Austria and then arriving in Germany at a vineyard festival where I played with my band and back.
Viewers from around the world from Hawaii to India are joining me warming up my hands, voice and brains with songs from my repertoire and talking about a wide spectrum of topics regarding my life as a working musician and recording artist all the way to AMA or Q&A and yes, sometimes even the weather gets a nod.
You can see that I’m testing the waters of what is possible, what makes sense and what is simply fun to do.
Let’s reflect again at the end of the year when you’ll be listening to more than 50 songs on that Substack Sessions playlist.
Thanks again for tagging along on - My Songs & Stories - I really appreciate it!
Previous Substack Session Songs
SS0001 - Waiting In Vain
SS0002 - Big Yellow Taxi
SS0003 - Green-Tinted Sixties Mind
SS0004 - Testing My Temper
SS0005 - Use Somebody
SS0006 - Walking In Memphis
SS0007 - I Han Es Zündhölzli azündt
SS0008 - Enjoy The Silence
SS0009 - Blue Door
SS0010 - The Way You Make Me Feel
SS0011 - The Ballad Of Jenny Ledge
SS0012 - Tomorrow Never Dies
SS0013 - Casual Conversations
SS0014 - It’s My Life
SS0015 - In Your Eyes
SS0016 - If I Ain’t Got You
SS0017 - Time & Again
SS0018 - Appreciate
SS0019 - Roll To Me
SS0020 - Home
SS0021 - Things Have Changed
SS0022 - Old Time’s Sake
SS0023 - Hand It Over
SS0024 - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
SS0025 - Until You Come Back To Me
SS0026 - Stop This Train
SS0027 - Somewhere Tonight
SS0028 - I Will
SS0029 - Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours)
SS0030 - Drop A Line
SS0031 - Susie Q
SS0032 - God Only Knows
SS0033 - Everybody Be Yo’self
SS0034 - Precious
SS0035 - Calm After The Storm
SS0036 - Save Tonight
SS0037 - I Wish
SS0038 - It Ain’t Over
SS0039 - Naturally
SS0040 - Joytown
SS0041 - Joanie The Jehovah Witness Stripper
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