The End of the Baskethouse Song-a-week Challenge

All good things must come to an end. I hereby officially declare Andy Mac to be the winner of the Baskethouse Song-a-Week Challenge. This week marks 6 months of recording a song every week, and I'm giving up. The truth is, I have a ton more songs I could put up, but I need all the time I was spending recording back.

This has been an amazing experience, and I've been truly inspired by all the amazing songs that have come from the amazing songwriters who participated. Including today, there were 185 songs recorded for the Baskethouse. 185!!!! It's really amazing, astounding actually.

But it's time to move on. I'm releasing a solo album, including some songs that were incubated on this podcast and some that weren't, that will be coming out June 1st, which I couldn't be more excited about. Also, we'll be doing weekly shows at the Bitter End again this summer. Please let me be in touch - if you want to be added to my email list, click the link under Stay Informed on the right-side of the page, or you can just shoot me an email to info@baskethouse.net

Thank you all for giving us feedback and support. Thanks to Jeff Malinowski for the theme music and to Julia Durgee for the Baskethouse logo illustration. Thanks to the Daily Purge boys for your endless plugging of the podcast. And, especially, thanks to all the songwriters who participated. You are all amazing songwriters and can look forward to spectacular careers.

 

It's the Baskethouse Song-a-week challenge. I'm Drew Brody. Thanks for listening

Comments

[Leather Mouse]

Friday Leather Mouse will post week #37 of "The Leather Mouse Song Of The Week". Every week Leather Mouse writes, records and posts a new song. Every song is written the same week it's posted. Never any covers, samples or songs we've been playing for years. Just fresh new ideas every week. We have found others who have made it a full year. But they only "recorded" a new song each week. Some were covers and others were songs from 5 years ago. The trick is to write a new song every week. Get it recorded and then posted by the end of the week.

[Andy Mac]

I just want to say THANK YOU to Drew and to everyone who participated. This experience has been invaluable to me. Thanks also to everyone who listened to all of the music made by these great artists. :o) Thank you.

Mac

[Tim]

No! You have no idea how said I was to open iTunes and see the title of today's podcast to be The End of the Baskethouse! I'm a huge fan of the podcast and there's simply nothing like having brand new music every week from such talented artists.

Hopefully some of you guys will be here in Chicago this summer and I can come see ya live. Keep up the hard work and keep on rockin'!

[jim]

there were so many great songs. i will miss the show. what's next??

say it ain't so!