Make An Album in A Month (with a free bonus day!)

I'm not sure when or where I first stumbled upon the RPM Challenge, which essentially calls on musicians to record 35 minutes of music over the span of February's 29 days, but it makes me wish I had a band. Bob Boilen at the All Songs Considered blog posts about it today:

There's nothing like a deadline to get me motivated. That's what the RPM Challenge is all about. The challenge: write and record an entire album in the month of February and submit it.

That's it, no winners, no losers, just the satisfaction of creating.

I did it last year with my old band Tiny Desk Unit and it was about the most fun I had all year.

So now it's time to mount the hard drives, fire up the guitar and all my processors. This year will be another long distance collaboration with my friend Michael Barron. We each start writing, then exchange the files over the net and add to each other's ideas.