Whenever I’m working on a major project I usually find that some other piece of art sticks in my craw while I’m working on it, serving as a sort of guide. Usually it’s a musical album, and since most of my projects involve language, the guidance doesn’t directly correlate on the level of instruction so much as attitude or philosophy. When I was ( Read more... )

Don't want to wait for the CD to come out in a couple of weeks?  You can download the new poetry album, "Sunset Clause", right now!

At 25 tracks it's a serious bargain.  If you just want a track here and there, you can download your favorites and just pay for those!  You can even listen to a few seconds of each poem to preview which Scott Woods ( Read more... )

 
The one you've been waiting for: the brand-new breath studio record, "Second Wind"!


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I keep listening to the rough tracks over and over (some unfinished, some needing more tracks to pad them out) and, while many of them still need tweaks, I may have a rough cut of the new breath album now ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago I did  a post about my favorite Scott albums.  Backchannel I got my fair share of, "Hey...how you gonna advertise albums that ain't in stock?  Some of us don't use iTunes."

Problem remedied.  There is at least one copy of all still-circulating records.  
FINALLY.

Of all the records and songs I've put out, these are my favorites, ranked.
I didn't include the poetry CDs.

#1. breath - slow down
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Last night's MPSL finals was a really fun, really great show, filled with the kind of comraderie and midwest love that the league is known for.

Marc Smith and the Green Mill were PERFECT foils for the league's show, being typically engaging and fun for everyone. MPSL poets dominated the open mic - many of whom hadn't ever been to the historic Mill ( Read more... )