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Speaking about the new ACOUSTIC RECORD….

Recording.

 

 

*SIGH*

 I  am recording again. Yes, it is true. Yesterday I started recording for my new ACOUSTIC RECORD intitled: I dont know yet, but im supper excited. Why an acoustic project, you ask? Because I am told that Thats what you people want. Recorded live straight into a mic. Guitar and vocals and at the same time so there are bumps and bruises but I think thats cool sometimes.   There is going to be a couple older songs re-did. (thats was pretty ghetto lingo.)

Be excited. tell your self that you want to buy it. tell your self that you cant wait to put it into your compact disk player and hear the first sound. go on tell your self. stay posted.

burb. 

Kicks.

I guess you could say I collect/love shoes. Here are the newest additions and my new current favs.

NEWWWWW SONG!

heylo.

As you may know I have written a new song and I always like to put the songs up here because you cant hear them. You can only read them. And there is something about not being able to hear the melody or the sped of a song. It’s like only looking at someone’s silhouette and imagining what there face really looks like… you have know idea what it looks like. 

   This is song is different. Im a very sensitive guy. I’d rather take the heat then see someone else in trouble or hurt. But this song doesn’t show this side of me. This song is about getting dumped and being really destroyed by that, almost to the point of being mad. and not just getting dumped after a couple weeks or months, but after a long term relationship when your heart has been taken, and then for no reason, I got left. Its called “The Used Man.”

Its got to be about, the only thing that, that I’m afraid of, I didnt want to hear.

Its the statement that we ought to see other people that arnt here.

I guess i’m stranded, desperate, alone again, all my love is in a cup and I wither/

It might seem harsh and it might seem rash, but you know girl that you hurt me bad/

You were a waste of time/telling me you were mine, my blood is dryed up but i think ill be fine

You were a big mistake, your heart must be fake, thanks for the favors but I feel like a used man/

what now, whats next? do I need to find new love or do I test, the limits of being free and trying to believe

in love again. It doesnt matter now all is well, I do what I please since your not with me.

Since your not on my back/ I gues I should cut you some slack, you wernt that bad,

my friends will know you as my only regret/

Im better off, Im better off, Im better off with out you.

 

It will be up soon,

    Cody

Apprehensive.

Apprehensive is the word of the day, and what I have been feeling all night.

I played at a small open mic night tonight. It was Smokey, and roughty, but I really wanted to go to try out this new song I wrote. There something about when I write a new song, Ill test it at home and see how I like it, but just like the Lay*Z*Boy company, I know that you’ll never know till you put it to the test. So that was the reason I went and It went well, a good friend of mine, that perhaps you have herd me speak of before by the name of Butch was there and he said that he really liked it.

 But thats not the reason I’m writing. Tonight I was so self-contious, and I just am wondering,” should I really be pursuing this? Is there something that waiting for me out there that I cant get to because of me and my pursuit of music?”

After I left the bar, I was on my way home and just couldn’t stop thinking, am I doing it right? I decided that I wasn’t ready to go home and roll around in the bed for hours while I am deep in though so I decided to go to my friends house. Her name is Wendy’s and she is so awesome. She’s a great cook, and she always has this really creamy chocolate ice cream that is to die for. I got my ice cream and then sat in the the car and really went over some thoughts. And I have decided that I want to quit music. I really do. It kills me. As a musician I wear my heart on my sleeve at all times and At one minute people love me and want me, and at others all they want from you is “free bird.” In this town, no body really cares about art, or new music, they just want something they can talk to. They’ll ask you to play it and then they will start talking to friends and thats it. Im not a human iPod! And I want people that will sit there and appreciate it and thats why, Im not going to quit. Because there are people that are out there. They want to hear new stuff and that want to listen. They are the kind of people that would look under the curtain because they see somebody and they say, so whats their story. This is for them and this is why I will continue. 

    And all I have to say is, if that is you…. Then make yourself know. And I’m not just talking about me but to what ever you like. Make sure that they know. Not just the little people but the big people too. Showing your appreciation is something that has been lost, and not just in entertainment, but in life. We expect gifts for out birthdays, were not surprised and If we don’t get something then we are disappointed. And Thats wrong. And that has changed the value of so much in our world, so if you appreciate someone of something, for God sake, let them know, please!

Luckily, I do have some people that let me know, right when Im about to give up, and I want to say thank you so much to those people. Last wednesday a listen of mine told me that my music was therapy to her and I think that was maybe an overstatement, it was probably the best compliments that I have had in a long time.

thanks to my readers,

   Cody Burbage

BARGGGG. I can’t sleep

So tonight I had a surprise performance out at MOJO’s in Summerville. The night went just fine and actually its was nice. Now though, sadly it seems that I have stayed up to long because its 3am, I’m so tired but I cant fall asleep. And i dont know what to dooooo… I would kill a raccoon right now for a glass of milk. (were out, as always) and (I don’t have anything against rabid animals such as the Raccoon.)

Anyway tonight was cool because I wanted to change it up. I told myself before I started that I wasn’t going to feel like I needed to play anything that I didn’t feel like playing. I don’t cover a lot but tonight there was a heathy load and you would all be proud and shocked. Set as follows…

For the ex-girlfriend

*Why Georgia (john mayer cover)

Maybe She’s the One

*Homeward Bound (Simon and Garfunkul cover)

Heart and Lips

I’m not OK

I Still need you

*Eleanor Rigby/Dear Prudence (Beatles covers)

Humans and Angels

*Screaming infidelities (Dashboard Confessional cover)

Car-seat Distance

Love Catastrhophe

Logic

 

hope your sleeping well cuz im not.

bruda code-mistier

COOL DEAL.

 

Hey gangsters.

listen, I am so happy about a show that I have coming up. If you are between the ages of 11-18, on Wednesday, October 1st, I’m going to be playing at Old Fort’s youth ministry service. I love Old Fort. I have some history there with the people and its a great place to learn about God and to be around great people.

  so very exciting for meeeee. Its free, no charge, zero money. Ill be playing a little bit of worship and a little bit of new song that are going to be on my new record as well as some older songs and I tell stories and all the groovy stuff for a complete hour! You don’t want to miss it. Grab some friends and tie them up and bring them, for sure, no lie! 

see you there 

code

oh hannah.

hey friend,

  I love records and i love jazz and i love john coltrane. Tonight I found his “a love supreme” lp at a record shop, brand new, never opened (very cool.)there’s nothing like, coming home from working all day saturday and listening to good jazz, and it sounds so much better on vinyl. so go get you a turn table stat.

   hope everyone did okay last night and today with the storm. It was actually pretty nice. my irish twin sister ashley came over last night and spent the night. we watched home videos, old school cartoons and laughed. we found this video of me in kindergarden and it was the day that one of your parents came in to read a favorite book to your class. CRAZY… i’m thinking about posting it here on the blog soon. i was such a nerd…. not really a nerd but, maybe a square?

  I remember days of watching “cry baby” w/ johnny deep and listening to “bad” on the radio and just wanting to get a skull and cross bones tattooed to my chest, but i just never felt cool enough.

  I still stand next to a lot of people and just feel small. Insignificant and vulnerable to be picked on. I’m a chatter box but at the same time im a bit shy… and in group interviews i don’t do so well. 

    and this is not something that im emotional about or sad and lonely. Its actually okay. I okay w/ saying “ah…hi. M-m-m-my name is cody.” its who i am, but I also get loud a lot. I have a very large mouth and sometimes i cant be quiet. and i think thats why i’m not just a instrumentalist… it’s because i’m a chatter-box and i would tell you my problems anyway, so ill just sing about it instead.

now you know a little bit more about me.

 

cb

im growing.

Last Night I played at a venue called wings. I like wings because it keeps me on my toes. but its also a cool place for me to try new songs and to play “B-sides” that i usually don’t play anywhere else. They are just cool with me taking chances but If i lose there attention, they let me know and if I pull something off then they scream for me which is always cool to hear as a guy in a corner w/ a guitar and a microphone, while battling the Football game thats is going on six, high definition, TV’s.

         Last night I played a new song and I played a rarity. You might have read a blog or two back about a new song called “I’m not okay” and I also played a song I don’t play a lot called “Hero’s are Rare.” Both tunes went pretty well but something was different about these songs then the rest of the set….

        Sometimes I lose it in a song. I just go off. I find the mental state at which i wrote a line or two and subconsciously in my head go…”whoa, thats heavy.” Not in a bragg-torious (new word) way but in just trying to express my self. It’s like “Okay, were cooking with gas.” Thus I start to sing with more passion and my body goes into convulsions and people stare. Its a good thing. But anyway on these two songs it just happened. And after the show a person comes up to say hello to me. And the gave me kind words on my performance and we exchanged names and the they continued to tell me that my stage presence was shocking to them and that they enjoyed it. I said “Thank you,” but they said “yea, check out this video I took with my phone.” And it happened to be these two songs.

Now……. I was very honored that they wanted to capture the Cody Burbage experience on a digital video format, via cell phone, and so I decided I would watch the video. Usually I’m very unhappy with hearing my self or watching myself on video. It just feels weird and I cant stop thinking about how stupid I look or sound.  But I was watching this video and I kinda had an out of body experience, via… there cell phone, and I saw myself not as myself but as a songwriter, full of emotion and singing songs that were definitely very very real to me. And I was okay with myself.

     That doesn’t happen much. I’m working on becoming okay with who I am, and not going through my check list of people that I want to think that I’m cool. And I think I’m normal for this, and i’m sure that as a guy in his early twenties , this will be a work in progress in to my thirties.

    right now I’m cody burbage, but I’m working on being CODY BURBAGE, but not all by myself.

Peace and Love

me best mates.

hey happy labor day everyone. 

This is Will. Will’s been me best mate since we were 15. We have had the best of times and the worst of times, and the cool thing is know that we have made it through all that, we are just like brothers now. I’m not afraid to make him mad and he’s not afraid to tell me that i sing through my nose sometimes. It’s great. But since high school we don’t get to hang out as much as we like. He goes to school upstate and I am married in charleston so its rare occasion that we get to see each other. 

Any way sunday we went and played at the Ice House in Summerville and Will played an awesome set. He’s an awesome guitar player and writer with an americana/rock feel to his music. Will helped me so much get started as a musician and so i want to help him with his music. So…. run over to his myspace, add him as a friend and check out him music.  www.myspace.com/willreid.

I hope everyone had a great Labor Day and that your doing alright. 

**Ice House Set**

I Still Need You

Heart and Lips

Dear Prudence (intro) 

Humans and Angels

Break Here

Carseat Distance

Logic