I Fought the Lore and the Lore Won

I'm a Singing Cowboy Now

Faux Friends,

Today marks the beginning of Volume 9 of “From the Mixed Up Files of Mr. Matthew T. Schindler” over on Bandcamp.

Huzzah.

Each week as we move through the summer of 2024, I will add a new recording to the album over there and write about it here.

Dig?

That is to say, I have released 9 albums on Bandcamp over the past couple years using this newsletter as mouthpiece.

That’s crazy!

The first song on this new album was recorded on cassette tape in the Spring of 1998, using my trusty Tascam 4 track recorder.

The song is called “Nature” and I’d be tickled if you gave it a listen in the player below:

My band The Spring Collection made a recording of this song which never saw release, but the Faux Jean band did release a hi-fi version of this song in 2001 on the “Kiss Life on the Lips” album and in 2002 on the “Nature” album. One could listen to that in the youtube window below.

So, listening to the demo version gives you an idea of how the sausage gets made.

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Somewhat silly announcement

Moving forward, for the time being at least, I am going to be presenting myself as a singing cowboy, and I would be grateful to you all if, on the off chance that you were to be talking about me to someone, you’d say something along the lines of, “Oh yeah, there’s this singing cowboy whose newsletter I read sometimes. . .”

OR

“Oh yeah, Faux Jean is this singing cowboy that I listen to sometimes.”

As you can see from the album cover for FTMUFOMMTSV9, I’ve embraced this new marketing scheme:

But in reality, I’ve been inhabiting this persona since I was a toddler in Duluth, MN:

As Kay Adams said on the Michael Shelley Show not too long ago, people try to put you in a bag in the music business, to which her compatriot said, “Just be glad you have bag.”

So now, singing cowboy is my bag.

Faux Jean, genre-agnostic singing cowboy.

For now.

I remain your humble servant,

OX&C,

Faux Jean