Studio Pros Production Giveaway Contest!

Studio Pros Production Giveaway Contest!
One of the best decisions I have ever done for my singer/songwriter career was to go to the StudioPro's site I found online on a search. That was nearly two years ago, and now eleven songs ago. This year I am singing at the ICMA's Showcase the night prior the Awards Show, which is celebrating it's 20 Years for the award show, and a special time to be invited.  This would not have been possible if I had not found StudioPros.  My Co-Producer Kati O'Toole, has mentored me, and has been helping me to be a better producer for the way I want My songs to sound, as only the singer/songwriters can do.  The availability of World Class musicians, Vocalist and Orchestrator's, is something I only dreamed about putting together my songs in special ways to get the blended musical sounds, and vocals to weave a most wonderful tapestry of a song.  This was all made available to me and much more. Having a Co-Producer like Kati O'toole at the helm is just a magical experience that only one can get by taking a chance to have that experience, and actually fill your dreams of a song that only the composer of that song can do.  If you want one of the best experiences of your musical career go to StudioPros for a consultation and step out into the world of creating a masterpiece that you always knew was special. I really can't thank all of the great people from StudioPros enough for what they have done for my Music.  This has been my personal dreams and wishes come true.
Thank You, From The Bottom Of My Heart,
Your Musical Dreams Can Come True,
Tony Watson

Finishing A Recording Session

Working in my studio finishing a recording. One thing I can tell you for sure, if you want to record music you must put all of you patient's together and then some.  In the end if you are lucky you can end up with a great song.

Tony Watson 

Drumming With Your Religious Gifts

The ability to play and the ability to perform via playing an instrument are special gifts in life.  Like this drummer, playing the drum is part of his religion, and therefore he applies the Rattan Bundle of sticks to the beat that has religious content and overtone.

The Timeless Instrument

The picture to our left is a Carlo Bergonzi violin that I purchased on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.  One of my hobbies I have, which make for great stories to tell from a musical and a collecting point of view.  Or should I say it for what it really is, and that is rescuing instruments I find.  Just like the Bergonzi, which the famous craftsman made himself in 1733 in Italy.  Interesting thing about instruments, verses people, they can out live just about everyone.  I sat for many hours holding, and viewing the instrument in every angle to really study the instruments perfection, and obvious imperfections from being hand carved.  Doing this you will see all of the fine qualities carefully crafted into each square inch of this timeless instrument.  I hope and pray that each of us can have fine qualities that we carefully craft, even with our imperfections to leave something behind so that someone in the future can admire them and study them.

Amazed Again,

Tony Watson,

I f you give it much thought, most songs would not exist without instruments.  Being able to pick and choose how to twist a blend of instruments to make the sound that is enjoyable to an audience in the form of some sort of arraignment.  In most cases I would say that it falls back on the composer, and what he or she hears when composing the song.  Some of my favorite songs have had only a single guitar in the entire song.  That is probably how the composer heard the song at it’s best.  When the burning desire is there to deliver the vocals and music with let’s say a single performer and his or her instrument, it is what you hear in any help article, “presentation is nine tenths”.  This being said many famous recording artists have done just this thing with the most powerful delivery of his or her single instrument, and in many cases also their voice.   It can be very pleasing to the ear hearing their voice and instrument in unison giving us a song you will never forget.  The late John Denver was a master of this technique.  Many times on his TV show John would preform one of his songs for the night in just the simplest of setting where it was just John his guitar and a song, it was magical.

Simple Music, Can Be Magical,

Tony Watson



Celebrating Mother’s day at the Eastern Shore of Maryland.  This is a photo of the water out in front of our home in Cambridge MD.  Trips to the blue waters of the Caribbean seam to get us through all bad weather we endured during the winter, but I don’t believe there is another place on earth which bears the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay.  We have been living here for over 11 years, and it inspires me on many fronts.  It also prepares me for my work coming up in the next week, and prepares me for how I feel about life in general.  I am looking foreword to a summer of boating, fishing and family gathering.  None of this would be possible without the mother of my children, not to mention (T’s) mother and my mother.  Honestly, where would any of us be without them?

Happy Mother’s Day,

Tony Watson

Time to think and compose

During my recent stay in Key West just the calm evening of a sunset cruise, the only noise you hear is the wind forcing itself around the sails.  It can give one time to think without urban noise why we are here on earth.  Each person has their own connection to any place you may be, it is just the moment you realize life can be simple even if it is just for a couple of hours, like being on a sail boat.  On a sail boat not only can you feel the wind on the ship, but you can feel the energy of the wind moving it along with that same rhythm.  It had me thinking that our life has the same simple rhythm if we just have, or take the time to experience it.  You don't need to be on the ocean to feel the great experience of the wind, and a beautiful sunset.  That sort of thing happens nearly every day.  So in my opinion you can have quiet time if you try, and you can have that in your own back yard.  This might be just the best place on earth for “your moment”.

I am certain that this calm and solitude time I was blessed with during my time off from work on a great holiday in Key West awarded me with much more than time off from work.  This time I am certain has given me the inspiration to write new music.  Most importantly this holiday taught me to appreciate quiet time for one’s self.  Not sure if it is coming from my ability to take it all in due to my being on earth much longer than I thought I would thirty years ago.  Take this from Tony, cease the moment whenever you can, it will deliver great things in your life.

Happy Easter,

Tony Watson