Hey there Dragon Clan. Time to get back into my music. Last post was June 2025. I played 3 gigs that month. That was the last time I felt well. I had a small surgery at the end of June. No music in July and played my last open to the public gig in August. I dialed it in for that show. I did a couple more shows at St Anne's, again all dialed in. I wasn't practicing and I could feel the performances lacking any quality. I stopped playing out all together by November. I was back in a depression. 

Well I'm climbing back. I've written 3 or 4 songs this year and am practicing again. Not much, but a good start. I am taking piano lessons and making some small progress. I'm back on the banjo too, doing some online lessons. I've played 2 open mics this year. I'm really hoping to do more soon. I need to practice my repertoire so I feel comfortable playing those songs again. I'm hoping to play out with my 4 instruments this summer. Banjo, guitar, harmonica, and piano.

I never recorded the song I mentioned in my last blog. It is good. I need to rehearse it and figure out the percussion (a fifth instrument, the bodhran). I've had a few song ideas pop into my head and I'm writing them down and making voice memos. 

Good day, Dragon Clan. 

Prepping for my gig tonight. Began posting reels weekly on Instagram. The project takes me out into the wild to shoot a different song from Blind Dragon Sings and edit it down under 3 minutes. I am A-B testing on both reels and posts. Also trying to get these onto YouTube shorts. I've fired off a few rounds of emails trying to book more gigs without much success. I have one more gig this summer after tonight and I'd really like to add some more. Still struggling with low motivation and energy levels but am still making progress.

Announced a week ago that I have a new song I wrote last December that I want to record and release by end of August. It is a story song about medieval fantasy. It's a dragon song. I am thinking about hiring the musicians myself and recording it locally. My first album was recorded an hour and a half away and the producer hired the musicians and really played most of the instruments himself. That makes an album more affordable. I also have a local artist working on what I'd like to use for the artwork.  

Love and peace

The eggs of the dragons. The Beltane flames keep them warm. This…this is the incubation. Our dreams. Ours lives, past and future. This is the quickening. This is not a summoning. This is nothing you can control. This is the pulse of life, time, and nature. It powers past mass extinctions, and timelines. You can participate or you may perish meddling in the affairs of dragons.

Happy Easter to my Christian brothers and sisters. To my Pagan brothers and sisters, Beltane is days away and I anxiously await with you, feeling the energy rise within me. I am again alive and full of vigor and am once again productive and renewed in my desire for my music. Music is the love of my life. Again we are dancing. We are mating. We are sacrificing to our art. 

I am rededicated to my music performance, my control over my personal finances, and my health. All of which have seen their ebbs and flows. All have seen better days. I foresee better days ahead. I will be adding my performance dates to my website as they get added to my calendar. Hope to see some of my Dragonclan there. I love you all.

Love and peace.

I have alot of thoughts on where I am now. It's been 3 long years since my ex-wife and I split. I didn't want to move on, I just wanted the pain and chaos to stop. In some ways I've reverted back to my twenties, refusing to talk to anyone or make any connections and being absorbed in my passion project. Back then it was martial arts, now it's music. I have always had a deep spiritual connection to the divine. My faith is based in the Catholic church and I am in love with the ways of Witchcraft and Native American shamanism. I have since childhood been fascinated by all the world's mythologies, especially Celtic and Norse. And of course, my beloved dragons. 

Lately, I have fallen away from all these things. Haven't seen much of my family either. This is all a sign of my depression which I fell into over the last 3 years. I am on medicine for it and it helps. But I do recognize a need for a rebirth as with Spring, Lent, and rebranding my music. I have forced myself to get out into public spaces and be moderately social. I haven't played much music or done many open mics. I wasn't happy with my last few performances due to lack of practice. It didn't help that of the dozens of emails I sent inquiring about gigs, I was only able to book one. I still do my monthly show at St Anne's. I enjoy it so much. No mic, all acoustic. I can walk around and interact with the residents. I love that show. 

So here we are in spring. Easter fast approaches and I will get together with my family. The pre Easter time is Lent, it's about renewing faith and I am feeling called. I am spending a little time every day doing yard work and enjoying my dogs. I am enthusiastic about reconnecting with the Earth and nature. I am feeling an intense desire to play my music. I can't wait til the weather is good enough for me to sit on the deck and play. I've been wanting to rebrand my music show to more of a medieval appearance to reflect my fantasy based themes. I can't see losing the cowboy folk singer thing I've got going on now altogether. I think there's a place for both at this point. I haven't been writing a lot of songs over the last year. It is time to kick that back up. Ideas are flooding my head and melodies are dancing around and teasing me like pixies. 

So much more to say but alas, not enough time. Thank you to my Dragon Clan for all your support. To my mom, my brother, Steve, to my old and dear friend Judy, and to all who watch and like my You Tube videos, and like my Instagram posts. Special thanks to all my family, friends, coworkers, fellow musicians, and all those I've met in the music community who have listened to my album “Blind Dragon Sings.”

Loe and Peace

Good day to all the Dragon Clan. I've been focusing on building performance skills. I've been getting out to local open mics and meeting so many wonderful people through the Lancaster county area, York County, Dauphin and Cumberland counties. Being a musician is so much fun. Come on out to any Central Pa open mic and you'll run into a lot of talent and have yourself a really good time. If you catch me at one, you'll definitely hear one or two of my originals from Blind Dragon sings. 

Getting gigs is proving to be a challenge felt by alot of the local musicians. BMG and ASCAP cracked down locally and 8 or 10 places just stopped having live music because of it. 2 or 3 places just closed. And again, there's soooo much super talent in our area. More musicians and less venues mean less shows and more competition for them. 

We've also seen a few bad actors on the scene who have been accused of criminal behavior making us all look bad. This includes several musicians and venue owners and staff.  In general our music scene is friendly and safe. I beilieve one problem is lack of access to mental health care for musicians and venue staff. No insurance means you likely won't get care. As a nurse I wish I could do something for the local music community. The idea is not unrealistic, however I know that I don't currently have to ability to take on a new project at this time in my life. 

Dream big, my friends. Dream of caring for your neibors. Dream of colorful dragons whispering in your ears and surrounding you with their protection. 

Love and peace.

Welcome to my Dragon Clan. I was sick and out of commission for the end of December and begining of the new year. I'm finally starting to feel like myself again and able to get out and play open mics. I'm dead set on playing some gigs this year out in bars, coffee shops, or whatever and what have you.

 I have a pretty long laundry list of musical goals this year. Copyrighting my first album, building soloing skills, joining a performing rights org, signing up for SoundExchange, and writing a ton of new songs. I'm hoping to play a couple dozen gigs this year and have enough good material to start my next album. All the while trying to build my brand and define it. 

Recently I watched a YouTube video on Medieval jesters. I did not realize the extent of their functions. Most of all, I didn't know they were musicians, not just comedians. They were also advisors to the nobility, often aiding decision making. They also acted as messengers, travelling throughout the lands. All that to say, I am continuing to explore a medieval aspect to adorn my brand with. 

I got my content moving well last year and I plan to continue relentlessly this year. Look for an expansion to my YouTube offerings. My objective is to do more with what I have and not spend more money on gear. We'll see how long that lasts, LOL!

Love and peace

Hey there, Dragon Clan. Been a minute. 2024 is fading fast. I won't miss it. Although I made a shit ton of progress in my mental health, who wants to go through that? I didn't. I never wanted to. But I did. I reconized that I was depressed by the end of 2023 and reached out to my doctor for medication and then got into counseling. It sucked. But I did it and it all helped and was worth it. Hopefully it will never be needed again. For now, I have sigjned off the therapy but will continue the medication. I may start to date next year.

Musically, I've started booking 2025. I've got my first few dates on the calendar. Feeling excited. I'm happy with the show I have ready to go. I can easily play 3+ hours at a shot. It's a good feeling. I'm writing new songs all the time and I'm anxious to be able to share them. My Songwriter's Journal on YouTube is not enough. I want to do completely new stuff live. All reality and stuff, I know I need to promote the album I realeased in 20224. I am so fucking proud of that album (Blind Dragon Sings). 

Currently, due to the murder of a health insurance company's CEO I am connecting to my song “The Watcher.” It's about those with, never being satisfied, and those without, being forgotten. I am not about no kill'n but I'm about remembering the forgotten and lost, those without.

Love and Peace, ya'll.

Hey there Dragon Clan. The update on finding a live gig is that I have sent about 28 cold emails out since the end of August and haven't heard much. I've begun leaving business cards with bartenders at places I play open mics. 

The good news is that I have become more consistent with content on my socials, especially my Instagram musician  account, robedenbosongs. The bad news is my last blog post was a month ago and its probably been about as long since I did a You Tube Songwriters Journal. I do have an outline and a new song ready to go. Hopefully, I'll post to You Tube after writing this blog. 

A buddy reached out to me recently. He wants to get together and study music theory. I said I would love to. I need a motivator. Like with having found a piano teacher, it gives me an accountability that I internally lack. So I resubscribed to Peghead Nation to research theory on my end, from a. bluegrass perspective. I also signed up for a clawhamer banjo course, which was inevitable. 

The need now is to be more social. Saying hello to everyone at open mics. Remembering names. Getting together with people. When asked to play a song or two at someone elses gig, say yes. In the past I have said no due to false humility. Truth is, I'm scared. I have never been social. I have been a classic introvert. My bluegrass friends I've been playing with the last 5 years or so have been a God send. And fortunately, there's always a couple extroverts at open mics that come talk to me. Other wise I'd just hide in a corner, play my set and go home.

Dragons can be shy, but we are all powerful. 

Love and peace.

[I did not write this. I found it online without authorship credit. It's pretty cool and I want to share]

“You… don't look like a dragon.”

“Well, hardly anyone does, these days. Times have changed. We have too. The scales and tails thing worked with the dinosaurs, but we learned quite quickly that… that wasn't going to fly with you people.”

“you were around all the way bacik to the dinosaurs?”

“Well, not like… me personally. How old do you think I am?”

“…There's no safe answer to that.”

“No.”

“So when you say this is your hoard…?”

“All dragons have them. Some stick to the old gold and jewels thing, but that's so cliche these days. Most of us like our hoards to be a little bit more sophisticated than ‘shiny.’ ”

“Like what?”

“I have known dragons to collect snowflakes from the first fall of the year over dozens of centuries. I know dragons that collect petals of flowers left on the graves of loved ones. Dragons that keep and care for soft toys and comfort items, left behind as children grow up. Dragons that guard happy memories and shards of sunlight, kept safe for rainy days. And me, I keep a sanctuary of words. A bastion of language, of poetry. Of writen music and achingly beautiful prose. I am the Guardian of this monument to linguistic majesty. I collect stories of love and life and death and mourning and joy. There is nothing moire beautiful in all the world, no coin or gem or sliver of starlight more fantastic than a well told tale. A story is this world's truest treasure and what better chest for it than a book?”

Greetings, Dragon Clan. My first album dropped today on all the streaming platforms in the known universe. As far as I know. I am struggling to refrain from self bashing. It's good, and I need to believe and focus on that. My urge is to criticize myself and be my own worst critic. That thinking nearly prevented my music from ever seeing the light of day at all. I am an introvert. I am the type of dragon to hoard my treasure away in my cave and never come out except to feed. 

I announced the release on my social platforms today, told my family and friends.  I have gotten several congratulations from a few and a couple folks told me they listened to it. Everyone has been kind. I'm sure the trolls will eventually find me. It's frightening to come out of the cave and be visible and thus vulnerable. These songs are personal to me. They are about my interests and my life and how I feel about all those things that have happened in my life. Things I am proud of and things I am not. 

I am hoping to publish my lyrics here on my website soon. As far as credits, the album was produced by Bret Alexander and engineered by Paul Smith of the Badlees. I wrote all the songs, played all the acoustic guitar, and sang all the vocals. Bret played electric guitar, baritone guitar, hammond organ, mellotron,  harmonica, and mandolin. Paul Smith played bass. Ron Simasek played drums. The Badlees have had some national success opening for Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, and touring with Bob Seger and Greg Allman. I was in good hands to say the least. I am grateful for the work they put into my project and I really love what the final product sounds like. 

Just go to any of the streaming platforms such as Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple's iTunes, Amazon and Alexa, and Pandora. You won't need a link. If you don't have a platform, you can download an app for most of them for free. Spotify and Pandora offer completely free options with ads. Simply search for Rob Edenbo.

Please give the album a listen. I hope you enjoy it. It's only available on the platforms. No CDs or vinyl at this point. I am only wanting to find an audience who will appreciate my craft. The fractions of pennies that streaming pays will barley earn me a few cents. I'm in it for the love and thrill of sharing what I've made for you. If you are into dragons, magic and adventure; heart and gut wrenching pain, songs of love and passion, murder ballads, and exploring what is folk music and Americanna; this album is made for you. 

Love and Peace, Dragon Clan.