The Musical Diary of MikeLewisMusic

Sunday, July 24, 2005

ezFolk Artist of the Week

Wow. I spent the past week as ezFolk.com's "Featured Artist of the Week". ezFolk.com is the website that I house my music, and is hosted by Richard Hefner, a fine gentleman and a champion of acoustic music. ezFolk is all acoustic, and features some of the best independent acoustic artists who play banjo, mandolin, fiddle, ukelele, and acoustic guitar. There are many genres of acoustic music represented on this site, and everyone is very talented.

This honor bestowed upon me was very flattering as I respect everyone that puts music up on ezFolk. There are a lot of very, very talented artists on ezFolk, and quite honestly, I just look at myself as a face in the crowd. Nonetheless, it was nice to be recognized for my efforts. I never deluded myself with any thoughts that I was a good singer or a good guitar player, but I have absoulte, 100% faith in the songs that I write, always have and always will. I stand behind my songs and I know that I am a good songwriter. I'm really happy that this recognition served to get my music out there for people to listen. ezFolk Featured Artists tend to get a lot of listens during their featured week, and it was no different for me - this past week I have received almost 1200 listens between the 12 songs I have posted, so I'm averaging about 100 listens per song this week as the Featured Artist.

My week will end tomorrow at 5pm PDT, but it was a great ride. I was on Cloud 9 all week, and it's an honor I'll never forget. I feel that this has been a big milestone in my musical life, and a big corner has been turned. It's been a good year so far. A real good year.

My ezFolk site can be viewed here