Inspiration…creativity…drive…patience…flow…all of that and more has fueled the past 3-year stretch of making music. At the end of 2019, just before we were all locked in for a worldwide pandemic, I had started tracking songs for my first solo album while developing plans to turn Read More …
Tag: Mike Gruwell
Red Hot Empty Album Delivers
From our first jam eight months ago, it was as if it was already written in the universe that Red Hot Empty would have an album by year’s end, and a welcomed presence throughout Atlanta’s punk scene. A week after our first jam we played Read More …
ODD Best of 2021
As I allow myself to look back at the whole of 2021 today, it hit me on just how big a year it was for One Drummer Drumming. And it all starts with reaching out to drummer Carter McLean in January about one-on-one drum lessons. Read More …
The Essential Tracks: ’88-’94
This CD mixtape of sorts really came about because my sister asked for a CD of all the bands I used to be in. I tried to record all the cassette tapes to a CD several years ago, but always ran into some technical issue Read More …
Black Moses Was Here…
Listening to Black Moses will transport you back to an early ’90s Seattle where the music scene was blowing up, yet most bands were just struggling to be heard, get gigs and stay together long enough to get noticed. To get to the essence of Read More …