Chance & Change charts in March 2010! - April 16, 2010
Here's a note I got today, linking to a chart with CHANCE & CHANGE as #18 on the top 40 OUTVOICE albums in March 2010. Yay! TYRANENA coming your way...
Congratulations on making the OutVoice March 2010 Top 40 CD's Chart. Your fans are showing you their support and some love with their votes. This is the first chart underthe new vote counting method. Congratulations again! The chart is online at www.outvoice.net.
Lyrics are available here. If you have a digital version of the songs and would like a PDF of the lyric booklet or cover art for your digital organizer, email me and I'll send it your way.
The release party will be Saturday, April 10 at Water House Foods in Lake Mills, WI. I look forward to sharing these songs with you.
Three things for January 2010 - December 29, 2009
Hi all...
A few cool things happening in January:
1) I'm performing with Nick Venturella at The Brink Lounge in Madison, WI on Wednesday, January 6th. See the Calendar for details.
2) I will be helping with a creativity seminar in Lake Mills, WI, called The Artist's Way beginning January 19th. Join us!
3) My new album, Tyranena, is almost ready! You can pre-order the digital download or CD version here.
Happy new year to everyone!
It's almost time for Tyranena - November 17, 2009
Basic recording is done... just a few final edits and soon the new music will be here. Meanwhile, we're redecorating here at keith-hampton.com, with a new look for the site and soon, new photos, bio, and more. Stay in touch!
Tyranena sneak peek - May 1, 2009
artwork by my dad, James Hampton.
Songs up for inclusion (subject to change!)
"tyranena"
"worry train"
"joy maker"
"bless my heart"
"evidence"
"second chances"
"you remind me"
"hover"
"ghost in a car"
"decade (here's to us)"
"the known unknown"
Five friends will document one year in their struggle to make careers in the fickle and elusive entertainment industry.
We were inspired by "one year" projects like Brotherhood 2.0 and Ze Frank. Please join us on our journey, we don't know what will happen either.
In addition to being a documentary of sorts, we'll also be sharing what we've learned about the industry so that young aspiring filmmakers, musicians, writers and actors might benefit.
This isn't a reality show. No one hired us to do this. You won't see dramatic confrontations directed and edited in order to sell more Mountain Dew. Just five regular people with five separate but related passions.
Travis Richey
Keith Hampton
Eric Steffens
Phil Brown
Mary Van Luven
~Welcome to The Musecast.
Poem: "Non-Sense" - February 27, 2007
As requested by an audience member at the Mozaic room, here is the poem I read on stage during my set. It was the first time I've ever included my own poetry in my show, and thanks to all who gave positive feedback. I like it too...!
NON-SENSE
lover, how do you see me?
as a dangerous endeavor,
sometimes sweetly motivated
but often up to devilry?
do you fear that i aim to
steal your soul's ability?
see me as i am:
a man-shaped mirror designed to collect
the finest of your light
and broadcast it back to the universe
as it shimmers through our friendship faces
lover, how do you taste me?
do i betray the coffee and
sweet things in which i delight?
how does my own scent,
which i make both
with & without effort,
ring across your tongue
when you sample my best places
as i sigh into you?
sense me as i am:
made of the same essence as you,
like every dear one, every stranger.
find in me the comforts of familiarity
and the intrigue of my own mysteries.
let joy sweeten all our miseries.
lover, what do you hear in me?
i have simply said my "peace."
i have given love and only asked
for an occasional kiss.
but you seem to hear
some trepidatious terms in a contract
i have not proposed.
hear only my song.
won't you rise and sing along?
be a kind of harmony,
cast away the fear of always
and spend now with me.
i have many ways to soothe and charm you.
hear me truly as i am:
be near to me when you wish, or
when you can.
i have no means to harm you, no schemes.
say not, lover, how you experience me.
rather, continue
from within you.
let me the blessed
witness be.
