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7.06.2007
Senor Updator
I am continually astounded by how people can live two lives. One online life and one real life. I can barely live the real life. So sorry for the nonupdatiness of my online life.
There has been much going on here at la casa de cloninger. We have added the fourth in a long line of fine children, with the birth of the strong manly and strikingly good looking Samuel Tate Cloninger. He was born on May 4 and has been a fine addition, specializing in diaper filling, sleeping, and eating. He has recently added smiling to his arsenal of amazing feats.
Summer Camps are going fine. It was wonderful to be in Mobile, Tampa, and Pittsburgh so far. I met some awesome friends and have had an amazing time. I am taking a couple of unprecedented weeks off before I start back with the Boston and New York camps. For now, it is great to be home with the fam.
NUMERO UNO. Everytime I Breathe, one of the songs that I co-wrote with Big daddy Weave frontman Mike Weaver, has been number 1 on the Billboard Christian charts for the last few weeks. I have bought myself the appropriate bling and sent you a little something in the mail too. I have also stopped talking to anyone who hasn't had a number 1 hit. Unfortunately this included my wife and children and everyone else I know (besides my mom and Mike). So I gave it up and resumed normal life. All joking aside, it has been a real honor. As a songwriter, you always write songs hoping that people will hear them. It is great when lots of people actually do (hear them). God is awesome.
Live CD progress: As you may remember, I was going to release a live CD, which I am still working on. I didn't have time to wade through the hours of live recording from last summer's camps. And a lot of the stuff I did listen to was unusable due to digital clocking issues. So I am recording this summer's camps as well in hope of having enough stuff combined. I am using a different live recording rig to minimize clocking problems.
As a consolation prize, THE GREEN CD LIVES. That's right, Worship Songs Vol. 1 is being re-released! It has been remastered and I've added 2 live bonus tracks from 2006's summer camps. It also was given a cosmetic makeover, with the help of graphic designer and photographer Marcus Neto. Staying true to its original limey green beauty, we added new photos, updated text and more. For those Green CD junkies, who have hounded me for the re-release of this minimalistic classic, rejoice. Your voice has been heard.You can purchase all the Green goodness with the rest of the merchandise on this site.
That's all for now. It was wonderful being able to have some time to update this page. I hope you are all well. Thanks for your support. Maybe I'll see you out there somewhere in real life. Peace.....Andy
8.21.2006
Latest News
Hello people who care...There's been a lot going on here recently. As posted below, summer camps were great. For all of you who signed up to get the live from the camps recordings, just simma down. I am currently working on Karl and Erin's next jitterbug production project, Max and the Mountain. Check out their site at www.jitterbugtheatre.com . When I'm done with that I will start sifting through the hours of camp recordings and see if anything sounded good enough to put on a CD (I'm sure it will be fine). I will also finish the project with Linda Goodman, which is gonna be great. I also promised you where to listen to the 4Part Angel girl group project that I worked on. You can listen to music and link to their site at http://cdbaby.com/cd/4partangel . Also Also Also, check out Big Daddy Weave's new CD, Everytime I Breathe. I co-wrote several of the songs on there with singer Mike Weaver. It's a great project, so check it out. It should be out in September. Their web site is, not surprisingly, www.bigdaddyweave.com. OK, this is like suggestion-land blog, but I've got to say that you have to get Paul Simon's new CD "Surprise". I was raised on Paul Simon, and have all of his stuff, but this new CD is just extra awesome. I can't take it out of the player. It is so faith filled, wrestling, questioning, yet still so positive. The production is lusciously fun, yet to the point. The song to his daughter will tear you up and "Outrageous" is just an awesome awesome song. And my last suggestion of the evening/morning is to say that I just finished the book Waking The Dead by John Eldridge and it is life changing. I actually think I'm going to read it over again and maybe again after that. I've read several of his books and was moved each time (in my heart, not my bowels). Wild At Heart was influential, but I felt like Eldridge was kind of in the middle of a revelation with that book and, to me, just didn't bring it home at the end. With this book I feel like he's really on to something and has receieved more of a full message. I loved it. If certain parts over-challenge you and ruffle your feathers a bit, don't blame me. He wrote the book, I just suggested it. Peace out for now.....Andy
Back from the summer camps...again
Hello everybody in alternate reality web universe. I am back from the summer camps and ready to do some underwear modeling. No, wait, I'm ready to hang out with my family, write some songs, eat at my local sushi place (Daruma--if you're ever in Daphne, AL check it out), finish procucing some projects and then sleep for a year. It was an awesome summer and I want to say thanks to all of you (you know who you are) who were so helpful, servant hearted, worshipful, and sincere with your time and gifts. I was blown away by seeing a little bit of heaven brought to earth. Revolutionaries who don't blow stuff up unite to change the world for good!!!
4.12.2006
In The Studio
Hello everyone. Nothing much to say, I just surfed my own site and was shocked to see that I was bragging about all the updates...several months ago. I am always blown away by people who make music for a living and then have enough time to keep their web sites updated. Wow. Well here's the update. I just finished recording and mixing a CD that my friend Pete Leoni had started for a girl hip hop group from Mississippi called Four Part Angel. I bet you didn't know that the state of Mississippi voted me best hip hop producer from Alabama who was co-co-producing a hip hop CD for a girl group under the ages of 12, from Mississippi, who drive a white truck. Well, it's a rare honor, I'll tell you. I'll let you know where you can get the CD when it comes out, because it's a lot of fun and it may be the only time you will be able to hear yours truly take a heavy metal lead guitar solo on a recording (I am for real not joking). You add this to the fact that the solo is taken over pop hip hop tracks, and it is certainly a defining moment. I'm not sure exactly what it defines about me, but I'll let you know in the next installment.
I am currently working on producing a CD for a singer/songwriter named Linda Goodman. She is flat out original, playing a Baritone (very low strung) guitar and singing almost in a tenor range (think Tracy Chapman, and vocally more versatile). We've recorded the roughs of her playing and singing in a room and it's already one of my most frequently listened to CDs in my car. Speaking of cars, I bid farewell to my beloved Toyota Truck of 12 years. I am now sporting something different. If I told you, then the paparrizzi (or however you spell that) would be all over me like rumors on someone being hounded by the papparraziii. This is getting too long for one post, I'll meet you over in the next post. Peace, ppaapparazziii heads.
Summer Camps, etc.
Welcome back from the last post, people who stalk papppparrriziiiis, who stalk people. On other fronts, the summer camps are coming up and for those HEART workcampers out there, I will be making a valiant attempt to record a live-from-the-camps CD (yes, I know that over two billion of you told me that I should do it, but it was that two billionth and one person that pushed me over the edge.
Karl and Erin will be with me at 4 of the weeks and Walker will be at 4. Check out the heartworkcamp.com site for more info. Karl will be sporting his new Frankenstein homemade travel DRUM KIT. I'll try to get some pics of it up on the pics site under the no particular reason lightbulb hand (that should be clear). In other news, it's been a busy winter and spring. I've traveled to plenty of different places and met a lot of wonderful people. We ate a steak in the car in Nebraska, saw snow in Iowa, Knobbed it up in Indiana, Froze our fingers off in Jackson, Ms with our homeboys, Autumn's Majesty, ate pounds of Brazilian steak in Houston, met the other camp musicians in Orlando, leaned back in Montgomery, AL, and we've still got a few to go. It's been a blast. Thanks to all of you who have brought us in to sing and thanks to everyone who always makes it so much fun to hang out. I love seeing you guys in your natural habitat. It has also been an awesome honor to be traveling to most of these places with my good friend Fr. Geoff Rose, who has done an amazing job of laying down the truth of God with a lot of insight and plenty of laughs. It's always fun ministering alongside the man in the colla, so holla. Wait, did I just make a lame rap-ism about a priest? Oh, I did, well, what's done is done. Also, thanks to my trusty pancho-tonto-windbeneathmywingers Karl and Erin Langley, Walker Sherman, Adam Bradley, and Al Jacobi, for the great job you guys do in the rhythm and vocals department. It has been a great winter and fall. I can't wait to see all of you CAMPERS this summer. Peace......Andy
12.17.2005
Get Along Little Blueberry Critters, Get Along
Hello visitors from other worlds. I've actually been updating stuff on the site. So enjoy all things current. Check out the new pictures galleries on the see page. It's being updated pretty much constantly for the next few days, as fast as I can scan pics in (which isn't very fast). There's more MP3s up on the hear page, and fairly soon there will some tab/chordsheets on the reproduce page. I'll also update the concert dates soon. I just found out summer camp dates for all you workcampers out there. They'll be up soon.
Much thanks to friend and web update professional Erin Langley.
Also, much thanks to all at WBHY for playing Speak To me on the air. Kenny, Alice, Charlie, etc. You guys are great. Also, to all who have called the station and requested the music, thanks so much. It makes me feel good that other people besides my mom would call in. Mom, if you did call in...thanks. Spread the word, because the only people promoting my music are you and me, and I'm busy raising three awesome kids...oh and God is the main one promoting it, so we're all in good company. It's word of mouth promo here at mom and pop central. That's all for now. Peace....Andy
8.10.2005
paypal is up and running
Hello friends...if you have experienced technical snafus while trying to purchase the Now I Know, or Andy and Dog Named David CDs or the new T-shirts, then worry no more. Problem solved. No more Snafus. Snafuless purchasing ability is yours. There is a total lack of snafu. No longer will you find technology difficult. You might even say that technology has been simplified, or at least uncomplicated back to it's original technological form of working. So purchase like the wind, Maria. And I gots to send a whispa out to my friend, backup singer, and now webmaster Erin Langley for all her help lately with aforementioned snafus and the solutions thereof. Peace....Andy
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