My music has gotten little attention, but it could make a big splash yet, probably long after I’m dead.
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PowerSongs by Lowry Olafson
In my new career as The Detail Conductor, content writer to the open-minded, I am once again networking a lot. A few days ago I spoke with Lowry Olafson who has one of the coolest businesses I've come across yet -- and I've been networking with small businesses and...
Prince Is Dead
According to Vox's Why we grieve artists we've never met, people can mourn and weep over people they never personally knew for this reason, "We don't cry because we knew them. We cry because they helped us know ourselves." Writer Caroline Framke reproduces this tweet...
1980's Were My Decade, Unfortunately
It's not hard to make my hair go 80's (taken on 2/21/2015, before the party) A couple of weeks ago I went to a 1980's party that took place at a bar downtown. The '80s were my coming-of-age decade: I was 13 on January 1, 1980 and 23 on December 31, 1989. My high...
My Music
I wrote a bunch of songs between 1997 and 2007, but didn't put an album together until 2013 (with the mastering help of New York jazz pianist Robert Cowie). Each year that I get farther away from those songs I get less judgmental about my creativity. This means the...
Listen to My Virtual CD of Original Songs
This is just a reminder that if you scroll to the bottom of this blog homepage you'll find links to my original music. Yes, that's me singing songs I made up out of my own head. If you're on a device that doesn't let you see those links, go to my page on CD Baby.com....
Sometimes Art Makes Money
Seven years ago I recorded a bunch of original songs from when I was a singer/songwriter. In 2013 I finally had them mastered, copyrighted them as an album and started selling them digitally on CD Baby (my album is called Going of Age and is only available as a...
Remember My Digital Album
On my divorce day, several songs helped me through. Just in time, a friend introduced me to Rilo Kiley's song that repeats the words "It's so good to be free." I also played some of Paul Simon's songs about divorce and I got stuck on Josh Groban's "You're Still You"...
I’M ON iTUNES
This is my CD cover (the photo was taken in 2005 at age 39. I'm 47 now). My first and final album is up on iTunes right now! I can't tell you how excited I am. You can buy the whole thing or individual songs, but I encourage you to go to CD Baby.com to actually...
Happy Halloween!
I love black frosting. I haven't posted a cake in a while. This cake is from my favorite bakery Central Continental Bakery in Mt. Prospect, Illinois, USA. They don't have the most sophisticated website, but they have the best buttercream frosting (vanilla and...
Dead Music Career Fuels Fledgling Writing Career
Some of you know that years ago I used to step up to microphones wearing my Fender Mustang bass on a purple strap and announce, “I am Regina Rodríguez and I sing songs I made up out of my own head.” For many years writing and performing songs was the main way I coped...
I’m a Failure – y Que?
Failure gets such bad press, but it really doesn't deserve it. Who cares if you fail? It doesn't mean your life is over (unless your failure causes your death). I'm a big failure and I'll tell you all about it. My first failure was leaving Cornell University in 1993...
Quitters Win
(Part One)Earlier today I was writing to a friend with whom I haven't spoken in months. I wrote him that I'm discouraged about my music. Again. I've had no luck with TAXI.com (the service that hooks up musicians with people who want to buy songs for film/tv placement...
Phase One
My current project, as a recording musician, is almost finished: I'm down to the final mixing of the eight original songs I recorded last month with Neal Alger. I recorded the instrumental tracks on September 6th, recorded the vocals on September 10th, re-recorded...
Discouraged
TAXI report: I have submitted six songs to TAXI.com for consideration as background music for tv shows/film/commercials or as a song that could be recorded by another artist. They have been returned with the note that these songs were not what they were looking for....