Updates ( i.e. Things I want to Say)
December 24, 2008
The album is finally finished!! I'm very proud of it and very, very excited!! Because of Christmas I won't be able to take it to be replicated early next week and it will be available of sale shortly thereafter (although if you are on the mailing list i am offering a special deal . . . starting tomorrow :) It will take a few weeks to a possibly a month until it is up on iTunes due to the time it takes for processing.
Thanks so much for all your support and interest in my music!!
November 20, 2008
For the last year and a half I've had the privilege to have working with one of the best drummers i know, Bryan Wegman. However, after drums were recorded and edited and a few other things tracked Bryan and i decided it would be best if we stopped working together.
At that time money had gotten pretty tight and Bryan had the opportunity to take a full time job at the Apple Store. He fell in love with the job and we felt it best if he spend his time on his career with Apple rather than with The Highway Beautiful.
A couple days ago Bryan decided to move to MN in order to be closer to his girlfriend (a wonderful young lady he met while on tour in MN in 2006) He'll be packing up his stuff and making the move early in '09.
Good luck Bry!!
September 30, 2008
I'm having the album edited and mixed in a small town outside of Buffalo called Fredonia. It also happens to be the small town outside of Buffalo that in which i attended college, so needless to say, i like it here :)
the guy doing the mixing is a fellow named Ryan Laurie. I am staying in the guest bedroom of his house while we work on the album all this week. He just got married a week or so ago (he got back from his honeymoon on sat) so i was afraid that his wife would be upset that i was staying there with them, but she's like my music for a couple years and is glad that i am here. She has fed me very well and has even put chocolates on my pillow :) i'm not kidding :) haha
They have a small dog named jack. i don't know what kid he is but he is def small enough to throw pretty far if i ever got a hankerin to throw a dog. I don't know how he isn't fat because he mostly sits on my lap and sleeps all day. The only time i see him not sleeping is when we are eating, during this time he standing at my feet waiting for food to fall. Today i fed him:
- a piece of banana
- a glob of oatmeal
- sliver of turkey
- weird slimy stuff on a piece of chicken i marinaded yesterday
- a Dorito
The first song Ryan and i started working on is a song called Always. I like it and it has a funny rock-a-billy feel to it. We recorded a few new parts today (an "egg" (which we went to the music store to buy, while there i also bought an Eb Harmonica and a Kazoo) and me pounding my chest in rhythm to sound kinda like a train. (it worked) We've spent about 18 hours on the song so far. Ryan loves this song and thinks that of all the songs it is the one that will make me famous, so he wants it perfect, which is fine by me :)
Its 10:30pm and he is stopping for the night.
We are starting in the morning again around 10.
12 hours a day is enough haha
New Album Coming Soon!!
For the last year I've been working on a new album and because of a things called Parkinson's law (which paraphrased says that a given task will keep expanding to fill the time allotted for its completion) the album has taken forever to be finished. But, that is all changing. I'm scheduled to take it for mixing the first week of Oct. 2008 and to be mastered First week of Nov. That means that it should be for sale before Christmas!!
Love Letters, Soapboxes and Dirty Laundry.
The new album is done and has a name!! "Love Letters, Soapboxes and Dirty Laundry will be available for sale shortly . . . keep an eye out!!
I'm super excited about it and will post the tunes as soon as they are ready. I'll also make sure that they get up on iTunes as quickly as possible!!
Featured on MTV
If you are a fan of MTV and its TV shows, keep your ears open because this coming season of programming will be featuring some of our songs!
So far we have had three (3) of our songs featured on MTV's 1 dating show "NeXt" (i've seen it. its horrible, but be honest . . . you watch it anyway:) Listen carefully to hear "So Beautiful", "A Grown up Child's Song", and "superman".
Speaking of "superman," that song has done a lot for me. I was contacted this season to have "superman" appear on 5 more TV shows including, "The Hills," "Newport Harbor," "Life with Ryan," "Road Rules," and Oxygen Network's "Bad Girls Club."
so keep your ears peeled . . you just might hear me!!
AN UPDATED [AUTO]BIOGRAPHY
Some folks have said the last bio was too casual. . . being that it was written in the first person and poked fun at that person (me). Here is a more "professional" sounding look at who The Highway Beautiful(me) is:)
***NOTE: If you would like to read the old bio, it is in a blog at the top of the page, as is a lengthy version of how i entered into music. . . enjoy.
~ Jason Jurewicz, writer of bad biographies and user of poor spelling and terrible sentence structure
WINNER- Pop Male Vocalist of the Year 2006- Los Angeles Music Awards
WINNER- Best New Original Band 2006- Buffalo Music Awards, Buffalo, NY
The Highway Beautiful is the music of singer/ songwriter Jason Jurewicz. He incorporates strings, horns and ambient textures on a base of acoustic guitar, piano and drums.
The Highway Beautiful hopes to relate to people on an emotional level, getting in their heads to make them think about the world around them and who they are, raising questions about the things they take for granted and the ideas they have grown to embrace all the while leaving the listener with a sense of hope.
Since it’s inception in September 2004, The Highway Beautiful has performed over 250 shows across the country appearing with artists such as Sarah Slean, Charlotte Martin, Kevin Max, Zox, Skillet, Hawk Nelson, John Rueben, Tree 63, The Myriad, and Shiny Toy Guns.
The Highway Beautiful also completed a self-produced full-length album entitled “the things that lights can hide” independently released in 2006 and will be releasing a sophomore album in late 2008.
BUY THE DEBUT ALBUM
In January of 2006 "THE THINGS THAT LIGHTS CAN HIDE" the debut album from The Highway Beautiful was released and i think it sounds pretty good:)
If you listen to any of the songs in my "music player" on this page, you are listening to some of the tracks from the record AND if you like what you hear and are interested in buy it, you can purchase it for only $12.00 from www.CDbaby.com/cd/highwaybeautiful or the website.
You can also pick up the album through iTunesfor only $.99 per song or $9.99 for the whole album, so if you prefer downloading it, please do it that way:)
The Highway Beautiful
THE THINGS THAT LIGHTS CAN HIDE
$12.00 (US)
BUY NOW!
also available on CDBaby.com
VIDEO
VIDEO: midnight comes- live
A live performance featuring Bryan Wegman on drums from june 25 2006 in Wilmington, OH. . . it was recorded on a camera with video capabilities and I was super surprised that it came out as good as it did:) lol . . . the only thing is that it kinda looks like I am not playing guitar BUT I AM honest!! haha
VIDEO: midnight comes- live (another one:)
A live acoustic performance from in the fall of 2006 at University at Buffalo in Buffalo, NY in association with Music is Art
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