Keeping Up With Conrodthe life & times of c. jay conrod

I’m still on a bit of a high from the India.Arie con­cert last night at the Pageant. I think my open­ing set went rather well. It’s always hard to tell. I know when peo­ple have never heard you or your music before they tend to really focus and take it all in, so you never get an imme­di­ate reac­tion. I’d like to thank every­body who helped me out with my per­for­mance: Baba Kelly on per­cus­sion (who I asked only the night before), artist/producer Reign Smith on keys, superstars-in-the-making Teresa Jenee, Kiwi Harvey, & DB Sutherlin on back­ground vocals, some of the great stu­dents of Crossroad College Prep on per­cus­sion, gui­tars, and strings (includ­ing Ms. Emma Silver who gave a great sax solo) and their band instruc­tor, musi­cal genius Lamar Harris.

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