20th Place

Well I finished 20th place in the big Capitol Records/Bix contest. I'm disappointed, mainly in myself for not posting a better entry. I know if I would have spent more time on the entry I could have finished higher, but it is what it is. Thanks to everyone who voted for me, I really appreciate the support.

As a side note I might get to go watch the final round live in person, since Capitol has extended the invitation to all the top 50 contestants. That would be great to see the process in person. I might even blog about it if I can take my computer with me. My wife is about to give birth to our seond son, and we are in the 4 week window in which he can come anytime, so I'm a little hesitant to leave town. Granted, it is only about 2.5 hours away, but still....

Anyway...stay tuned for more info from the front. Peace.

Last few days to vote

Well the second round of the bix contest is in the last 4 days, so excitement is building for the announcement of the top 10. If you haven't voted yet, check out Bwilhelm.net for information on how to vote for me! Here is my entry for the second round:

Vote for me on Bix.com!

Thanks for listening and happy voting!

Woo hoo! I made the top 50!

Wow, so I made the top 50 in the Capitol Records "Road to Nashville" Contest on Bix.com! I get to move on to round 2, where the top 50 finalists do 1 video entry, and the Bix Community gets to vote on the top 10. Those top 10 go to Nashville and audition for the Capitol Records folks and chance to win a 3-song demo and $50K! This is awesome, and I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. Now I really need your support! I'll post a link here once I get my round 2 entry online. Woot!

Karaos.com

Well I took some time out to do a little web programming, and created karaos.com, a website for people who like to sing and meet other people who like to sing. It includes a bucnh of features I personally thought would be cool for people who want to share their recordings in one place. Since all these online karaoke places have popped up, it becomes hard to jumpr from site to site and maintain all your friends on those sites. My goal with Karaos is to bring all those site members to one starting point for singing online. Those sites are great for recording and storing music, but the lack some functionality I think singers would enjoy.

Karaos includes all the features listed below:

- member profile pages
- track friends and their online status
- post mp3 recordings
- put your mp3s on Karaos Radio, a playlist of all member recordings
- member blogs
- member photo galleries
- Karaos email system for communicating with other members
- online paging system to contact other members
- receive email and comment alerts on your cell phone
- live chat rooms with webcams and audio for singing live online
- post your performances from bix, singshot and singstreet on the site
- community forums
- find karaoke bars around the world with our bar directory
- the list goes on and on!

Sign up today for a free account!

Lots of Competition, More Singing

Man, there are lots of great singers in the Bix "Road to Nashville" competition. When bix first started, there weren't very many country singers, but now there are quite a few, and a lot of great ones. I think my chances are slim to place in the top 10, but I'll need a lot of votes if I am going to make it.

I have been singing online at places like SingSnap.com lately, as they seem to have the best selection of music and a nice recorder. The site is in Beta right now, and you can't actually hear any of my stuff unless you are a member. To become a member you have to be invited or simply sign up for the Beta. If you want to be invited, let me know and I'll send you an invite to join.

I'm going to add some more music soon to the music player on the right of this page, so if anyone has listened to those songs, you'll get to hear a different batch. Peace out for now.

Bix Contest - Road to Nashville

Bix.com is having another $50,000 contest, this time for country music, sponsored by Capitol Records. There seems to be a lot of country singers all of a sudden! This time the contest is 3 rounds, the last round of which is judged in Nashville by expert judges. I have entered, so check my entries when you get a chance:

Vote for me on Bix.com!

Vote for me on Bix.com!

This contest is a face-off format, where one entry competes against another. You decide between the 2 entries which is better, then pick one. Then you'll see 2 more entries. This goes on forever, but they show you the number of entries you haven't seen yet, so that helps you gauge just how long you would have to sit there until you saw all the entries.

As far the band, we still have yet to find another drummer, so we are practicing some acoustic sets, which actually sound pretty good and frankly are more up my alley. I like to be hear myself sing and not be drowned out by a drummer! Anyway, we have some leads on a few drummers and will hopefully get one soon. Stay tuned.

Time for Updates!

Sorry it has been a while since I posted anything here...life has gotten in the way a bit. We have had about 5 practices so far for Busted Tractor Band (BTB), and the songs are coming together. We are playing a mix of country, rock, blues, some pop even. Its fun, and its shaping up to be a good band overall. We are in need of some serious focus howver in order to play the car show in June. We tend to wonder off into playing songs other than what we have on our list. It usually starts with someone playing a little riff from a song they like, everyone else picks up the song if they know it, and before long you are jamming on "knockin' on heaven's door", the guns n' roses version. In that partilcular case we added the song to our list because 1) its easy to play and 2) it sounded darn good.

In any case, we are making progress. I want to try to take some video at the next practice and post my first video entry. We'll see how that goes.