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Did you get your copy of my album yet? NO?? Well, now’s your chance. I’m offering the album for sale at ANY PRICE until the end of the month. That’s right, you decide what you want to pay! Download the album for as little as $3 or $4, or $5 if you feel like being nice to me, or only $1 if you’re cheap, or get it FREE if you’re really broke like me!

Pay whatever you feel it’s worth.

This offer is being extended only to my friends and fans on Facebook, Reverbnation, and readers of my blog — and only until the end of the month!

Head on over to ukulelejim.bandcamp.com to buy the album today and name your own price!

Hey there. As some of you know, I play the ukulele and sing and stuff. And over the last year or so I’ve been writing some songs and putting together an album. I’ve posted many of the demo tracks here on my blog and some of you seemed to like them, so I thought I’d give my blog readers (all 5 of you) an update and a special deal.

The album “Ukulele Jim’s Authentic Down Home Marital Aid” has been submitted to online retailers such as iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Rhapsody, Napster, etc. It won’t show up in the online stores for at least 4-6 weeks. In the meantime, I want to offer those of you who happen to read this an early jump at the record and a discount.

For the next week or two, I’m making the entire album available for only $5 through the Snocap digital store. That’s half of what it will sell for everywhere else.

I’m not going to tell many people about this special deal, but I definitely want to share it with all of you who are reading this because you rule.

So, if you’re interested, head on over to the Snocap store and check it out. The songs are MP3 format and DRM free. You can preview each track, and if you want you can get them individually for .99 cents or get the whole album for only $5 bucks.

If you do end up buying the album or one of the tracks, please come on back and post a comment here with your opinion. I’d love to know what you think of the music.

And sign up for my mailing list! I’ll occasionally send info about new songs, albums, exclusives, shows and other news. I promise I won’t spam you or sell your information. Honest.

Recently I’ve started work on a children’s album that will be called “Ukulele Jim and His Jumping Flea Circus” with songs mostly written for my 3-year-old twins but also with the idea that other kids might like them, too. This is an early version of the title song.

(And in case you weren’t aware, the Hawaiian word “ukulele” roughly translates as “jumping flea”, due to the action of one’s fingers playing the ukulele resembling a jumping flea.)

Anyway, press the ‘PLAY’ button on the widget below to check it out.

What do you think of it so far?

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Oh, and if you know of any Flash animators who would like to make a video for this (and are generous and willing to work for super cheap or even free), please let me know!

I wrote this for my lovely wife Lisa as a gift for our anniversary, which is today. Thirteen years married, twenty-two together as a couple.

(It was raining really hard outside my window during this… some of it is audible, especially at the end.)

Here’s to you, darlin’. I love you.

[Download this song here!]

Happy Valentine’s Day.

Something About You – Single Ukulele Jim Release Date: Sep 25, 2008 Genre: Folk ℗ 2008 Ukulele Jim

You can now order the single for “Something About You”, the first song off the new album I’m putting together. It’s only 99 cents.

It’s also available on Amazon.

Please support indie artists like myself.

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Last night I played a set at ROCKS downtown. It was a great show and I felt both honored and privileged to share the stage with some very talented folks.

I think I did okay for my first real gig. I was a little nervous but I managed to make it through the whole set and I think I covered my couple of mistakes pretty well. The crowd was very generous with their applause and seemed to enjoy the music, which feels really good.

I played five songs, including a couple new songs that nobody’s ever heard before. The newest is a country/western tune called “Hold On To Me” I wrote just a few days ago and I closed my set with it. Someone in the audience was singing harmony along with me which I thought was pretty neat.

Here’s a video of the performance my friend shot from the audience:

And here’s an edited stereo mix MP3 of the song suitable for iPods and such:

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Remember when I said I was gonna be on TV?

Well, here’s the performance. This was recorded way back in July, which was 10 pounds and a beard ago (I’ve since lost both). I’ve never performed on television before, so I was nervous as hell and it kinda shows.

“Something About You“:

“Honey Wine“:

INDIE MUSIC SHOW EPISODE 13 with KYLE from the COSMIC REVELATORS, LAURA MIHALKA, and UKULELE JIM (hey, that’s me) airs on channel 17 in Santa Barbara on these dates:

11/30/2007, 3:30 AM
12/1/2007, 9:00 AM
12/1/2007, 10:00 PM
12/2/2007, 3:00 PM
12/2/2007, 11:00 PM
12/3/2007, 2:00 AM
12/3/2007, 11:00 AM
12/4/2007, 8:00 AM
12/6/2007, 8:00 PM
12/7/2007, 3:30 AM
12/8/2007, 9:00 AM
12/8/2007, 10:00 PM
12/9/2007, 3:00 PM
12/9/2007, 11:00 PM

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