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1. Check out www.myspace.com/mcraftmusic

"I Got Nobody Waiting For Me" is beautiful and lonely. I am addicted to the banjo hook which articulates the very notes of a yearning soul. I want to put this on repeat and re-live the time I saw him live at Oxford Arts Factory. Truly magical. He was so natural and smooth a player.

I confess, my exposure to Martin Craft was through my ex-producer, who is related to him! He told me that Martin quit uni and earned a living working in the pubs before he made it big. It kind of scares me. Indie artists work their bums off before they can make their first passion their livelihood. Alas I trust God - he stoked the fire and will snuff it out if he wishes I cease my pursuit of this for Him.

2. I performed today in the Edward Ford building at USYD. A new song called "The War", it was about a really close friend of mine experiencing one of her first major bouts of spiritual battle. I will get it ready and record it at the studio once I've completed the arrangement. She really loved it when she heard it. Her smile and her response was all that really mattered to me.

After all this recording and writing, theory learning and practicing, I found myself anxious to perform again. After I put my guit down I remembered why I love it so much - I have permission to let it all out. It is a safe forum - a song, I mean. It allows the responder to enjoy, or be confused, or cry or just relax, while you get to have your outlet. It is my therapy and I am so happy I have been given the gift of songwriting to heal, learn, grow, stick it to the man, ponder, think...

A lyric sample:

I do not trust in my own bow
I prefer Yours
To impale my demons and foes
And ride on their corpses

Crucify the argument
We expressed in our heads
Gauge it out with Your bayonet
If it means that I'll stop the disbelief altogether...