I don't know if I have posted this on here before, but here are a few ways to keep up with what is going on in my world (other than checking this website that I happen to update whenever I feel like it).

Facebook
I resisted joining facebook because I already felt like MySpace was an anvil chained around my neck. But I finally gave in as I am prone to do and I am glad I did. FB has been a great way for me to keep in touch with family, friends, and friends I don't quite know yet. I think I have an "artist" page somewhere that you can join - but also just come to my regular page and be my regular friend. I am not afraid of you.

Twitter
For those of you in the Twitterverse, you can keep up with me here. This is where my most up to date information starts (it also feeds into Facebook).
www.twitter.com/andygullahorn

Mailing List
I occasionally get my act together and send emails out to my mailing list. You can join it here. Make sure to put in your ZIP code because I sometimes send out messages to folks in the areas close to upcoming shows.


Square Peg Alliance
I am in an alliance of songwriters here in Nashville called the Square Peg Alliance. We started doing free monthly Square Peg House Show & Potluck events. They are tons of fun but are limited to about 50 people - so the RSVPs go quickly. I you want to be up to date on events like this, you can follow the SPA here:

Square Peg Alliance Facebook Page
or
www.twitter.com/squarepegmusic
or
you can join the SPA mailing list here

Yes I write pretty much everything on this site.

Yes I wrote the title to this post.

Yes that means I talked about myself in the 3rd person.
It sounds more official.


I went to Kerrville, TX last weekend to participate in the New Folk Competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival. This festival has a 39 year history of celebrating songwriters and I was honored to be part of a competition that has included such artists in the past as Lyle Lovett, John Gorka, Pierce Pettis, David Wilcox, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Robert Earl Keen and Nanci Griffith.


Thanks to the many bribes I gave the judges before my performance, I was named one of the winners out of the 32 finalists performing. I am not exactly sure what that means, but I was hoping it meant that I would win a brand new tour bus. Apparently that isn't the case. At any rate, it was an amazing experience where I got to make new friends with songwriters across the country (and a few that live within a couple of miles from me here in Nashville). I hope to be back next year. I also hope it is abnormally cold there next summer.

While I was playing some shows with my wife, Jill, in the Northwest, Nashville was getting some record rainfall. I got a call early on a Sunday morning from my neighbor that water was surrounding my house and they were going in my house to try to save what they could. Luckily, the water never made it into the main level of our house - but we did get a good 7' of water in our basement. Thanks to everyone who came to help us get our house back in order and offered food, hospitality and prayers. We are getting everything back to normal now - and the hardest part is figuring out what normal was.

Here is a picture of our indoor swimming pool.

For many years now I have submitted songs to be a part of the Kerrville Folk Festival's New Folk competition. I grew up going to this festival and it has been a great doorway into the world of Folk music for many people. For a number of reasons I am sure, I never made it to be a New Folk Finalist - until this year. I will be performing two songs on May 30th in the competition. Although I am a competitive person, this is not the kind of "competition" I am really into. But I look forward to hanging out at the festival and playing a few songs. If you are coming to this festival, be sure to say hello.

I am in the middle of my run of shows in TX and wanted to let you guys know about one more show that I am adding before I come home. It will be at the home of Jon Meyer in Richardson, TX. It is on Monday April 12 at 7 PM and there is a $10 suggested donation. See the SHOWS page for more information.

THE LAW OF GRAVITY
a new CD from Andy Gullahorn
AVAILABLE NOW!!



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Songs on The Law Of Gravity
1. Brand New Song
2. Chloe In Pasadena (The Kind Of Guy I Am)
3. Someone To You
4. In My Bones
5. I Haven't Either
6. Any Other Way
7. New Pair Of Eyes
8. Sins Of The Father
9. Money Where Her Mouth Is
10. Resurrection
11. Why You Brought Me Here
BONUS SONG
12. Workin' Man

My new CD, The Law Of Gravity, is available for pre-order right now HERE.

If you pre-order now you will also get a link to immediately download mp3s of the entire record.

If you are kind of lame and just want the mp3s instead of the physical CD, you can get it here.

Please tell all of your friends.

The actual CDs will be shipped as soon as I get them in (beginning of December) and I should have them for all of the Christmas Tour dates.

You might be wondering what songs are on this new CD. Well, let me tell you.

1. Brand New Song - this song actually is a brand new song.
2. Chloe In Pasadena (The Kind of Guy I Am) - this song gets the award for the longest song title I have ever had
3. Someone To You - I wrote this one after a Wikipedia "incident"
4. In My Bones - a song about marrow. kind of.
5. I Haven't Either - have you ever lied all the way through a song? I haven't either.
6. Any Other Way - one from my wife's last record.
7. New Pair of Eyes - a song about getting peed on. kind of.
8. Sins Of The Father - about the things we hand down.
9. Money Where Her Mouth Is - a co-write with Matt Stanfield.
10. Resurrection - another one I copied from Jill's record
11. Why You Brought Me Here - a co-write with Jason Gray
BONUS SONG
12. Workin' Man - a song about my love for country music.

This weekend I will be joining Andrew Peterson and Andrew Osenga for our supergroup, Andy & The Andys, and our three city world tour.

10/16 - Knoxville, TN
10/17 - Charlotte, NC
10/18 - Atlanta, GA

See the shows section for more details.

I finally added a link to my official mailing list. See it over there on the left? Just click on it and give me all of your personal information. I promise I will only sell it for the top dollar. You are worth a lot to me.

It seems like I have been going to Florida every other week. In actuality, this will be my 6th trip to the Sunshine State.
I will be in Hollywood, FL for a show on July 31st. If any of you Flourides are interested in booking a show (or shows) around that date, let me know.

For those of you who don't know, I am a member of the Square Peg Alliance. For the first time EVER, eight of the members (including myself) will be hitting the road together for a couple of shows. You should come witness these historic events yourself.

June 30 - St. Peters, MO
July 1 - Cornerstone Music Festival

If you like excellent independent songwriters - you should come. Surely there will be some of those at the festival.

Next week, I get to come back to the great state of Texas for a few shows.

I will be in Richardson, TX for the Wildflower Arts Festival for a few days, then on to Austin, Spicewood and Mo Ranch.

See the Shows page for more information. Hope to see you there.

Hey - just letting you folks know about a few shows in North Carolina this month.

On March 20th, I will be playing a house concert with my wife, Jill Phillips, in Raleigh. See the shows section for details.

On March 23rd and 24th, I will be in Charlotte, NC for a couple of shows by myself.

Hope you can come (if you live close by).

Check out the shows section for more details.

For a limited time (maybe very limited) I will be giving away free downloads of my newest record, Reinventing the Wheel. All you have to do is click on the little widget thing that is in this blog post. For those of you who don't know what a "little widget thing" is, join the club. I guess you can just think of it as a picture on a website that does stuff. That might be the official definition.
Anyways - you can download the whole record for free or you can pay what you want for it. If you ask me, I say you should pay lots of money for it. Just imagine that you were at your local carnival and you are hungry for a huge corn dog. It costs five dollars. You eat it and it is gone. It leaves you with a stomach ache. Now, you could pay that same amount for a CD that you will be able to keep forever and won't make your tummy hurt. Wait, now that you think about it - the CD sounds many times better than that stupid corn dog. It is probably at least 5 times better than that corn dog. So maybe you decide to pay $25 for it. It all depends on how hungry you are.
Honestly though, this is just a way for me to share a record that I really believe in with as many people as possible. So feel free to tell all of your friends. In fact, you can easily take this widget and put it on your MySpace page, Facebook page, blog, website ... basically anywhere on the web. Just click on the upper right corner of the widget where it says "share this" and it will tell you what to do.
As i said, this record will only be up for a limited time. However, after that - I plan to just give away different music. Maybe my last record. Maybe some new demos and special songs. Who knows? If you have any requests let me know - but keep in mind that they actually have to be my songs. Don't request that i give away Coldplay's new record for free. They are only worth two corndogs anyways.
Download away ...

Some of you folks in Houston really came through. It looks like I will be playing some house concerts on Thursday and Friday nights (the 31st and the 1st). I will have more details up soon. Hope to see my fellow Texans there.

I just updated some shows in the Shows Section. One of these shows is coming up pretty soon in the Houston area. The current show is on Wednesday the 30th. If you are interested in coming - I hope to see you there. If you are interested in booking a show or house concert around then in that vicinity - let me know.

(I have decided that in order to make the news sound more official, I will be writing the news in third person. This will also make me seem less interested in my own career and accolades. I might also use words like "us" to make it seem like there is a team of people working for me.)

Somehow my, I mean Andy's, record made it to some important people who write for magazines. He is very grateful for this.

There was a very nice and long review in Christian Musician magazine. It is too long for us to quote here. Just tons and tons of words about how great the record is. Just take our word for it. Andy would like to thank Shane (I mean Shawn) for the kind words.

The May/June issue of Discipleship Journal listed Andy's latest CD as one of their "DJ Picks". It says ...
"OK, so the real reason I listened to Andy's CD is because I'd heard there was a tribute song to his friend's toe, which was cut off by a lawn mower. That song, "Roast Beef", will make you laugh, but it may also leave you feeling as if you've encountered something profound. Which is the effect of this entire CD. How could something so simple - a guy, an acoustic guitar, lyrics about cholesterol and Dora the Explorer - be so eloquent and insightful? I chalk it up, in part, to Gullahorn's unusual honesty about his (and our) humanity and his musical pointing to the unfailing grace of God. If you like a folk sound and great storytelling, head to www.andygullahorn.com for this gem." - Sue Kline, Discipleship Journal

Andy is very grateful for such kind words. Andy has heard from many people who found out about his music through this magazine. Andy would like to thank the people at Discipleship Journal.

The June 2008 issue of Christian Single magazine reviews Reinventing The Wheel as well giving it four stars out of a possible three. Either that or out of five. I can't remember. Either way - it is a lot better than 3.5 stars (take that Natalie Grant). (Andy actually doesn't mean any disrespect to Natalie Grant. Andy likes Natalie and her husband and was only using her as an example from the same magazine. Actually, it wasn't Andy using her as an example - it was us, his team of workers.) Anyways, this is what the review said ...
"Andy Gullahorn has a knack for finding spiritual truths in the ordinary occurrences of life. And that's precisely what makes his music instantly memorable and relatable on Reinventing the Wheel. With the simplicity of acoustic guitar, Gullahorn creates intricate melodies that keep the songs interesting and colorful. Even more distinctive than the music itself are his poetic, meaningful lyrics that reflect the ups and downs of the faith journey. In "More of a Man", what's ultimately one of the album's best tracks, he's quick to admit that he's not always the coolest kid on the block. Then with "Original Cliche" and "Desperate Man" Gullahorn aptly reminds listeners that we all fall short without God's grace - a message that's always worth hearing in a new way." - Christa Banister, Christian Single

By the way - the "Christian Single" next to Christa's name above is not part of her title. It is just the magazine she is writing for. Andy is very grateful for Christa's support of his record although he is slightly offended that she thinks he is not the "coolest kid on the block".

If all of these legitimate people like Andy's record, then maybe you would like it too. Actually, all of your friends would probably like it as well so buy a bunch of copies and give them away.

Someone sent me a link to a new review on BestAlbumOfTheDay.com.
I am quite honored that it was the best album of the day on Thursday the 8th of May.
However, I am depressed that my reign as best album has passed. My career is over.