I'll be traveling to Japan this week to promote my new album, "Stone Pushing Uphill Man." To prepare for the trip, I mixed backing tracks from seven songs from the album, and I'm quickly trying to learn how to play them. (In the studio, I often recorded the songs in short sections. So I never actually played them the whole way through... until now.) Overall, I'm having a great time going back and figuring out some of the things that I played. And I'm already getting more ideas about how to play them. Music never stops evolving...

I've also been recording my guitar tracks for a new Mr. Big album that will released later this year. The songs are in my head all the time, and it's nice to work with the vocals again. I spent nearly a whole day last week just figuring out the vocal harmonies for a song. (They were tricky, but worth it!)

Of course, the G4 Experience camp is coming up soon as well. I'm excited to jam with Joe, Andy, Mike, and as many guitarists who are willing to plug in and trade some phrases with me. 

Life is good! Rock and Roll! Thank you,

Paul

Join us LIVE on Wednesday, July 9th at 5:30 PDT for an online mandolin workshop featuring Mike Marshall along with ArtistWorks Dobro instructor Andy Hall. We did one of these last year which was a lot of fun (click here to watch if you missed it), and we look forward to another great workshop which we're calling "Mando Magic with Mike Marshall." Mike will be joined once again by Mandolin Cafe founder Scott Tichenor to talk about his own history playing mandolin, plus they'll also be some jamming as well as discussion about techniques and playing tips.

This is a rare opportunity, so click here to Pre-Register for "Mando Magic with Mike Marshall"! You'll be sent a reminder to tune in live when the event happens on July 9th.