JIM'S BIG EGO: unpop for the unpopulous!

This project began in December 2024 when I discovered Cary Cooper’s Real People, Real Songs challenge on Facebook in which Cary would provide us a prompt and we would have a week to write and make a video. I was looking for a kick in the pants to write outside of my normal patterns and I signed right up. Not willing to wait for the January 1 start date, I wrote four songs before it began. After 12 weeks when it ended, I had 16 songs and signed up for a second round. At the end of 28 weeks, still not satisfied, I kept going. By mid-July, I had 31 songs completed. You can find almost all of them on YouTube. com/@jimsbigego in the “song a week” playlist. The later ones I posted for my Patreon supporters. Shortly before I was finished with the last song, I ran into Steve Friedman at a show I was playing at a library near my new home in Jamaica Plain. Steve had recorded my first album “Strawman” in 1992, and I asked if I could record some of these new songs at his studio. We kept it simple, keeping the project to voice and guitar but leaving the tracks open to be remixed down the road by some interested friends and music producers. I plan to release another album of the remixes of some of these songs. The last song in this
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