Tag Archives: FAWM 2009

A Great Year of Songwriting

Ok, now that I’ve got the blog caught up a bit, more about this dry spell. And I’m writing this mainly for me. Sort of a cheap therapy session, I guess. I can’t remember the last time I went five … Continue reading

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Song #5 – I Wanna Pet a Porcupine

Ok, so this is getting a little weird. Fun… but weird. Came up with the idea “pet a porcupine” at work today, came home, picked up the guitar and nothing really came. Then I grabbed the mando and things began … Continue reading

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Song #4 – Turning Nothing into Something

Fly.mp3 Ok so here’s another one that I’ll likely never get to play out live. But it was fun! Steve did something really cool the other day that I never thought I’d try. He did a song in one take … Continue reading

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We’ll Go (Looking for Eden)

Song #3 for FAWM 2009. Think this one is a keeper… We’ll Go (Looking for Eden).mp3 We’ll Go (Looking for Eden) – John Natiw ©2009 I’m barely breathing Under this ocean With all the commotion Of waves crashing down You’re … Continue reading

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Peanut Butter Jelly

Two days of FAWM 2009… Two VERY different songs. Here’s the latest: Peanut Butter Jelly.mp3 Peanut Butter Jelly – John Natiw ©2009 In my fifth year of life I found the perfect food One that filled my belly and improved … Continue reading

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FAWM 2009

My songwriting buddy on the left coast, Steven Wesley Guiles, and I started a website back in December of 2006 called Songwriting Apples. Since then we’ve both been on this weird sort of “songwriting, web-posting, tutorial-videoing, playing out live as … Continue reading

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Crown of Stars

Crown of Stars will likely never be performed live, but it’s up on the Myspace player because I think it’s worth a listen. I’ve also included a link to the mp3 at the end of this post.  No, I don’t … Continue reading

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