A Call to Arms

Hey! So, the site is back online after a 4 month hiatus. I'd love to take the time to tell you what I've been up to, but that will have to wait til tomorrow because right now, I need to call you to action.

About this time last year, I asked my readers to help me raise money to go to the ECHO Conference and you came through in unexpected ways. This summer's request won't cost you any money, but will take a bit of an effort. Here's the story.

My friend, Kevin, and I have started a band called 5 Miles Inland (go to the myspace page and listen). We've entered our song, Caroline, into a contest where the winner will get to open for one of my favorite bands on one of the stops on their summer North American tour. As I'm writing this, we're sitting at #33 out of 129 (not bad at all). We have to crack the top 20 in fan voting to go into the final round of professional voting. UPDATE: Now Ranked #29!!

I'd love to tell you it's as easy as just going to a website and voting for us. It's not. But I'm going to try to make it as easy as possible.

Step ONE: go here and click on "Judge as a Fan". You may have to do something to register, but for me, it was as easy as linking to my Facebook profile.

Step TWO: You'll eventually come to this page. Be sure to scroll to the bottom right side and choose the Tulsa contest. This is the only one we are eligible for.

Step THREE: You'll eventually end up at the page where the voting takes place. Here's what has to happen. You have to listen to at least 15 seconds of each of 4 songs, then pull them over to the side and rank them best-worst and click "Submit Vote". That will load up 4 more songs and the process repeats itself. I don't quite care how you rate everyone else, so long as when we come up (Caroline by 5 Miles Inland) please place us in the #1 Best spot.

The Catch: You have to vote at least 25 times for your votes to count. (Quick Math: 4 songs x 15 seconds each = 60 seconds x 25 times = 25 minutes of your life). You don't have to do this all at once, you could vote two or three times and come back later.

Step FOUR: Click on the ARTISTS tab and make us your favorite. We're numerical and alphabetized to the top, so we're impossible to miss.

Step FIVE: Help us crack the Top 20 by next Thursday, June 24.

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!!