In an effort to celebrate the official launch of djphillips.com, challenge my songwriting/ recording abilities and to take my own swipe at a 30 Day Project I will now post a new song idea every day for the next 30 days. These are not necessarily finished products. They are not necessarily fantastic pop nuggets. But they will be new ideas (written at least within the last few weeks). They will be (pretty much) on time. And they will be original.

Along with each posted song, I'll include a little story of the writing and recording process. If you're the kind of person who doesn't like to know what's behind a song, feel free to skip all the content below the track.

I'm putting these out there-- warts and all-- so let me know what you think! The songs that get a good response will be the most likely to be included on a future release.

When It's Good, It's Good

Woohoo!! I'm done. I was putting way too much pressure on making this song some epic suite, but it just didn't work out. I ended up finishing a song idea I've had for a really long time. Let's just say... I actually hadn't been to California or Colorado when I originally came up with the verses. I wanted to have a country-ish song with a cheesy love song chorus and this is what came out.

This project has been a blast and I thank you all for reading and listening along. I'll be doing a "now what have we learned" post very soon and I'll be posting all 30 tracks for download so that we can hopefully raise some dough for the Nashville Red Cross! You can download this track individually now at my Bandcamp page.

We'll talk more soon. For now... a celebration and a nap.

When It's Good, It's Good

I've never been to California Never been out way out west Where the ocean meets the sand I've never been to California But I lie here every night just holding on to your hand

When it's good, it's good Though it's often misunderstood It's hard to tell it's magic When you're healing from your wounds But it's good it's good If we all do what we should Just keep it there no matter what you do When it's good

I've never been to Colorado Never been way up there Where the mountains touch the sky I've never been to Colorado But I wake up every morning looking into your eyes

When it's good, it's good Though it's often misunderstood It's hard to tell it's magic When you're healing from your wounds But it's good it's good If we all do what we should Just keep it there no matter what you do When it's good

When it's good, it's good Though it's often misunderstood It's hard to tell it's magic When you're healing from your wounds But it's good it's good If we all do what we should Just keep it there no matter what you do When it's good