Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John Calvin Abney from Tulsa, Oklahoma will release his new album Safe Passage on the 27th of September. Keep an eye on that on his website / social media pages and/or follow this little music blog, because this beauty of a record will be heavily featured here. Before these new sounds, John took the time to jump on this festival stage with a really beautiful solo piano version of the opening track Always Enough of his 2018 album Coyote. You can hear/buy the studio version of this song and all recorded output by visiting his bandcamp or Black Mesa Records website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoM_vwgGVUU

John Calvin Abney at Facebook
John Calvin Abney Website
Black Mesa Records Website

One Chord to Another hits 18 years on the 17th of September and celebrates the long road with an online birthday party. During the anniversary week (14 – 22 of September) you will see unique live performances from the artists that shaped these 18 years of the blog. Follow the action on this blog and its social media pages and feel free to comment if you so wish.

Not so surprisingly, the Finnish leg of our festivities starts from Vaasa. If you’ve enjoyed this music blog over these years, give a hug to these lovely people. Their other band The Sugarrush is my all-time favorite and a major reason why I ever started making One Chord to Another. We will get to them on the actual birthday on the 17th and start this Vaasa salute with a song from their equally wonderful new band Mitä helvettiä nyt taas (MHNT). Here’s a gorgeous acoustic live version of their debut single Tässä kylmässä kaupungissa that originally came out in 2016. Be on the lookout for an encore later during the anniversary week.

Mitä helvettiä nyt taas at Facebook

One Chord to Another hits 18 years on the 17th of September and celebrates the long road with an online birthday party. During the anniversary week (14 – 22 of September) you will see unique live performances from the artists that shaped these 18 years of the blog. Follow the action on this blog and social media and feel free to comment if you so wish.

Welcome to the 18th Anniversary Festival of One Chord to Another. Our birthday party starts in Portland, Oregon and I’m deeply honored to share this new song from one of my absolute favorite songwriters. Anna Tivel is an exceptional storyteller who is able to bring the characters of her songs close to the listener’s heart. Her 2019 album The Question that came out on the 19th of April on Fluff & Gravy Records is one of the finest of the year and full of warm-hearted and powerful songwriting. Anna Tivel’s tremendous contribution to this anniversary week is a new song that doesn’t even have a name yet. If you want to hear more from Anna Tivel, a good place to start is this new and influential music video for the title track of the new album. After that follow the links below for more masterful songwriting.

Anna Tivel at Facebook
Anna Tivel Website
Anna Tivel at Bandcamp
Fluff and Gravy Website

Me and my editor-in-chief Luna (both in the picture) would like to welcome you to our little online festival and celebrate the 18th anniversary of onechord.net. During this next week you will see lots of amazing unique performances from the artists that shaped the past 18 years of onechord.net. I’m forever grateful to all the artists that took the time to be a part of this event. It means the world to me to be able to share this celebration with artists that I love wholeheartedly. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

The anniversary festival begins today at 7 p.m. (Finnish time, that’s noon on EST if I’m not mistaken) and then it’s on every day at the same time. Except Wednesday will be an off day. I think both the organizer and the audience might need a day to recharge batteries, plus I have some work to do set up the videos for the rest of the week. I would love it if you watched / shared / commented, because there will be lots of wonderful songs and lovely performances. I hope things go smoothly. At least, I hope hosting does not become an issue. I did buy an upgrade for this month to get rid of bandwith limits and so forth. If some problems rise, I try to tackle them on Monday.

And phew! 18 years. Where did all that time go. I sure never thought when I started that I would still be doing this 18 years later, but here I am and at least I have no immediate intention to stop. So who knows, maybe this gets to see 20th anniversary festival too. Of course trying to keep this thing alive is often a huge struggle with the dayjob taking away all energy etc, but thankfully this is also very rewarding and something that I love to do. These days this is sort of an enjoyable burden. If one day the word enjoyable vanishes from that previous sentence, then it’s time to call an end to this chapter of my life. But it’s definitely not today, today it is the time to celebrate the past, present and future of this little music blog. Thank you to everyone whom I’ve met or online met over the years. Thank you to all the artists that I’ve ever featured. Thank you to all the readers. You are the reason why this blog stayed alive throughout these years. I hope you all join in on this event and watch the beautiful videos that the songwriters and musicians have created. Love love love.