A Quick Update (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to drop you a quick update and also ask you a couple of questions. FIRST, "Sixteen Tons" is doing incredibly well for a song that is basically 80 years old, and I'm a bit astounded by it's performance on YouTube. To give you some perspective, at the time of this writing it has nearly DOUBLE the amount of views that the next most popular video (The Bare Necessities) does, which is mind blowing to say the least. Who knew people wanted to hear a little Tennessee Ernie Ford so badly? Not me, that's for sure.

SO --- THANK YOU for all of your help in bringing "Sixteen Tons" to life, it's been an unbelievable raging success and I'm so grateful to have a community as supportive as you are to make real these things that only exist in my dreamy headspace. NOW all we need to do is find like 50 or 60 more songs just like it and watch the views just ROLL in, right? 😎

I wish it were that easy, which is why this next paragraph might come as a bit of a disappointment to some of you; it's surely disappointing to me. My Son's school has closed down for 2 weeks due to a case of covid-19 and so our little one-man-one-woman video/music production house here has to close down as well. Producing content at the level that we expect from ourselves is time consuming and requires a lot of focus and effort and we can't continue working on the pieces we were creating while simultaneously taking care of and schooling our son, but we also don't want to let the the youtube channel languish or the patreon campaign stagnate so we're having to pivot a bit. Oh, and obviously we're all getting tested in the next day or so (again) so I'll keep you updated if anything comes of it. Fingers crossed that we're all in the clear.

(I should also mention to those of you that are VoicePlay Patrons, that at this moment, this news doesn't affect ((effect?)) VoicePlay's production schedule, but we'll keep you updated over there if anything changes)

The music video I was working on this month "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is going to be put on the back burner for the moment in lieu of 2 things that I am sure that I can accomplish during our little 2 week vacation.

I'd like to give you another narration, because I love doing them and we haven't had one in a while. I just need some suggestions from you in the comments below as to what to read so we can narrow it down for a proper patron poll.

I'd like to record another q&a video for the musically minded of you out there. If you've got questions about anything music related for me or if there are further explanations of things that I've touched on in previous q&a's drop them below for me and I'll do my very best to get to 'splaining.

OR... if those options don't feed your soul, drop a suggestion below and let's see if there's something else more exciting we can create together instead. Like maybe brownies. Brownies are super exciting. I like fudgey ones. If someone serves me a cakey brownie it's getting dropped on the carpet immediately if not sooner. I HAVE NO ROOM IN MY LIFE FOR CAKEY BROWNIES.

So that's about it for now, drop comments and questions below take care of each other and have a great week!

-g