I’ve devoted years of my life to studying and making music. All of that was in vain because of Microsoft’s software called Songsmith. All you have to do is sing and they make the music for you. Expect my next project to only be done with Microsoft’s songsmith… Need an example? This is the art [...]

Popmatters.com is a very important and influential music blog. Today they posted a review of my record (which you can listen to in it’s entirety in the right sidebar) and I’ve never felt more encouraged by journalism in my life. Here’s what they had to say: Hello Golden Age by Joseph Carver Randy Newman is [...]

NPR’s All Songs Considered has selected “If We Hang On (Uncle Sam’s Song of Hope)” to be streamed on their website. Not sure if it’ll be played anywhere else but I will be sure to keep everyone in the loop. You can stream the song on their site here. I’m honored to be on the [...]

You probably didn’t notice but I added a new page to whoisjonblack the other day that I’m excited about using and sharing. It’s called the Workbench page. Why? Because I like hearing original versions of songs before the hit the studio and change slightly. If you’ve ever heard the other version of Wilco’s Passenger Side [...]

I just made the entire new record available to listen to via the fancy music player in the right sidebar. Now, if you haven’t heard the entire record you can listen to it risk free. As always, you can download the album from Amazon or iTunes or you can buy a physical copy here at [...]

Yesterday I was unfortunately willing to watch “Beer for My Horses” which is a movie written and produced by Toby Keith. It’s exactly the gut-wrenching kind of movie you’d expect from someone who wrote a song about putting a boot in an orphus of Terrorism. I got the crazy idea to twitter my thoughts while [...]