Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
Original acoustic music, and lessons for songwriters and guitarists to make their own
Acoustic Guitar magazine, Career advice, Creative nonfiction, Performing, Writing
Originally published in Acoustic Guitar magazine, July 1997 Dear Readers, Lila with her uke. It all started innocently enough, in a quiet domestic scene a few nights ago. I was sitting there on the bed trying to iron a few wrinkles out of a guitar arrangement when Lila, my two-year-old daughter, barreled into the room,...
Career advice, Performing, Promotion
Performing musicians rely on social media to connect with their audience, and fans love that kind of direct communication with artists—it’s a mutually beneficial relationship. But as with most aspects of human social interaction, things can get…awkward on social media. People can be insensitive and even rude to those they mean to support, without realizing...
Acoustic Guitar magazine, Beatles, Inside the Song, Performing, Shows
In the summer of 2016, musician and producer Paul Davie contacted me and my duo partner Wendy Sassafras Ramsay about performing in his annual BeatleCuse concert—a major event involving 70 musicians from the Syracuse area and beyond. Plans for 2017 included appearances by Joey Molland of Badfinger and Hilton Valentine of the Animals, and a complete performance of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely...
Career advice, Complete Singer-Songwriter, Performing, Shows
Playing with Dan Bern last night at Babeville—Ani DiFranco's venue in Buffalo—was a thrill, and a bit of an adventure. Dan had picked five songs for me to join him on, including long-running favorites "Marilyn" and "God Said No" and several I wasn't as familiar with. So I'd practiced those songs, quickly finding out that his...
