Hey friends!  I don’t know why, but spring just feels so much better than winter.  And daylight savings time always makes me feel like there’s hope for some long-awaited freedom.  Hope you all are feeling as free as I am right now.

Meanwhile, Chris has made it to the live rounds of The Voice!  He TOTALLY deserves your vote!!  He’s in my video in the post below…if you don’t know him, you’ll see how incredible he is!

Jenny Gill’s record is coming soooon!!  And I have songs on it!!

Love and happiness!

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OK, my readers, mighty and few, I am SO excited about CHRIS MANN’S audition for The Voice in the coming few minutes I just had to share it with you.  We’ve watched and loved Chris through so many phases of this brutal thing we call the music business.  To know that he’s finally getting his shot is incredibly gratifying.  I’ll be back the moment it’s over. 

Hey fabulous friends!  Can I say that I am SOO lucky to be in a world of musical geniuses and beautiful friends, and I am crazy lucky that often these two coincide.  I get to connect with people  I love and admire–pretty much all the time.  I’m grateful for them, and for any of you who’ve taken the time to drop by here!  So, THANKS!  PLEASE sign up for my mailing list–the seven people on there right now might be getting lonely! : )

Hey–the Blair Hit Songwriter Series is up an running with a CRAZY list of guests, including CRAIG FREAKING WISEMAN!!  Just SOME of the guests this fall will be Gordon Kennedy (Grammy Award-winner, Change the World); Gavin Mikhail (wildly successful independent artist/songwriter); Dave Brainard (cutting-edge amazing producer for Jerrod Nieman and many others); Damien Horne (brilliant indie artist AND member of The Farm); Steven Dale Jones (One More Day, Diamond Rio; He Gets That From Me, Reba); Don Henry (Grammy Award-winner; All Kinds of Kinds, new Miranda Lambert record!); Charles Alexander (outsidetheboxmusic.com); Jeff Cohen (brilliant artist & writer w/zillions of film/TV placements); Cliff Audretch (Sr. Director, A&R, Showdog-Universal); Steve Bloch (independent plugger); Robert Filhart (ASCAP writer rep) and many more!!  You can still sign up!  Contact trisha.johns@vanderbilt.edu for more info.

Couple of quick updates….I just posted “If It Kills Me” from Elle Maze’s new EP (ellemaze.com).  We won an international contest with that song a year or two to go–it was an Effigy Award winner for best Power Pop song for  in FameGames, a radio program created by Tony Cowell, brother of the infamous Simon.

SOO many exciting things happening!  I got to hear a preview of some amazing new tracks today–songs that I wrote with Chuck Jones, Tiffany Vartanyan and the BRILLIANT young artist, Savannah Jones!!  Her scratch vocals alone are ridiculous!  And the tracks are so flippin’ cool–and it’s not just because I COMPLETELY freak out over Michael Rhodes’ bass playing….

My sweet Ricky and I have lots of other cuts on the way–Jess Moskaluke (winner of the 2011 Canadian Country Music Awards New Artist Showcase, jessmoskaluke.com).  CanNOT wait to hear it–she is phenomenal!!  Then there’s More Like Me, the extreme triplet magic of Jared, Justin and Jordan Roberts–these boys are literally the source of all sunshine and light!  There’s lots more–but I won’t tell you it all because I won’t have anything to write about later.

Hope your deep, good dreams are coming true.  Much love.

Hey friends, old and new! Welcome to the news section of my website!!

So many HUGE and exciting things to talk about lately, I hardly know where to begin! Let’s start with the release of the Survivors Series new app for the ipad and the iphone on Dec. 7, 2011!! When I tell you that book publishing will never be the same after this moment, I will not be exaggerating, and I won’t be alone in saying so…read more on the Projects page and check it all out at chafiecreative.com!!

In conjunction with the release of the Survivors app, we’ve just released a video starring the absolutely awesome JENNY GILL (yes, Vince’s daughter) and PATRICK THOMAS (yes, he was on The Voice last season)!!!!  Please check out Who You Are!  I was incredibly privileged to produce these gifted artists!! You can buy it on itunes!

Check out KENDRA CHANTELLE’S new record, Unthinkable (I co-wrote that!)!! She was on Idol last season and she will totally blow you away with the power of her voice and her soul!! You can buy it on itunes—that’s where I got my first copy!

I have a charting single on the Texas charts (it’s crazy that Texas is big enough to have it’s own chart!). BRANDON BOLIN singing Don’t Lie! Woohoooo! More itunes!

Dec. 8, 2011 I’ll be hanging out in NYC at the Publishing App Expo (http://www.mediabistro.com/publishingappexpo/) with maverick genius AMANDA HAVARD and business guru L.C. HAVARD! We’ll be on a panel called The Merits of Interaction: Transmedia Apps and the Reinvention of Storytelling. Don’t you wanna go to that?

Look for my songs all over upcoming projects by Jenny Gill, Jess Moskaluke, Brandy Clark, and many others!!!!