Cultural Sponge - The Joe Pagetta Blog

This year at the Nashville Film Festival, the Gibson Corporation was gracious enough to station its tour bus outside the theatre, where it was available for interviews and tours. As the publicist for the Festival, I scheduled many of the interviews, and introduced many of our celebs and out-of-town visitors to its many guitars and charms. But as a singer-songwriter and guitarist myself, it put me in a precarious position.  Just a few feet away was an escape from the busy days of the Festival, filled with some of Gibson’s finest acoustic and electric guitars. To satisfy the urge, videographer Chris Massey and I hatched a plan. We would pop into the bus during some downtime, grab the Epiphone J200 off the wall, turn on the video camera, and I would quickly play one of my latest compositions. This wasn’t an entirely well thought-out plan, though. It turned out that I didn’t know this new composition as well as I thought. At least not at first. I got it eventually. For posterity’s sake, here are the results of the plan, and the new song, “Looking For You.”

Watch it here:

or watch it directly on YouTube.

I’ll be honest. I always thought “Going for the World,” from Joywood, belonged in a commercial, a TV show or a movie, but I never had any luck placing it. Perhaps that luck is beginning to change. While it’s neither of the places I mention above, it has made it to a presentation video for American Public Television. A clip from the song kicks off the highlight reel that APT used at its Fall marketing conference this month, and I’m told it may make it to its website and be used throughout the year.

You can view the entire video here.

The shorter radio edit of “Going for the World” is available as a free download on the joepagetta.com music page.

This was actual footage I caught of a deer in the neighborhood, so I soundtracked it to “Other People’s News.” and put it up on You Tube.