Mike Echlin

Category: New Music

  • New Music Jan 1 2025

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    Hello and thanks for hanging out! I’m in the studio as we speak working on three new songs to close out 2024. I’m pretty excited about these. Lyrically, I’ve had these in the hopper for quite a long time. I made the final tweaks over the past month. Musically, they are done. Just trying to…

  • Bad Ideas>Good Ideas

    Bad Ideas>Good Ideas

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    Everybody is quick to point out a bad idea. It’s fairly easy to assimilate why something is not working. However, as a creator, the bad ideas are inevitable. I’ll go as far as saying they are necessary. Every “bad” idea when writing music is really just a stepping stone to the good idea. By itself,…

  • New single, “Crystal” out everywhere on August 6, 2024

    New single, “Crystal” out everywhere on August 6, 2024

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    I’m so relieved to finally put out this tune. It’s been a labor of love for 3 years?? I’m really not sure – a long time. The core foundation of the song never changed, it was the arrangement I couldn’t get right. So, here it is have a listen! Hope you like it. You can…

  • Brianna

    Brianna

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    An old friend from the Southside started an entertainment agency a few years back. He was packing clubs in Wisconsin doing “Idol-like” events and finding some great young talent. Last year, he reached out and told me about Brianna and sent me a few videos. Immediately I heard the raw talent. Beautiful voice with a…

  • New Single, “Waterloo”

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    This song was inspired by several trips to Waterloo, IA. It’s really about any small town USA, where it’s great to place to grow up. Then maybe you stay – or go. ~Available everywhere on 9/10/21~Find on your fav service It’s a great lifeAlive and kickin’Motor runnin’Living every day by the hour, by the minuteWe…

  • New Single – “Let Me In”

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    I wrote this song about 10 years ago. I tend to write songs and then there’s something about it that isn’t fitting, so I put it on the shelf. I was about to re-shelve this one until I found a great acoustic drum beat that fit the song perfectly. ~Available everywhere on 7/2/21~ I’m on…

  • New Song, “The Truth Lies In Confusion”

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    In January 2020, I wrote this new song with the working title ‘Confusion.’ Obviously, I had no idea how the year would play out and this song would turn out to be very relevant. I guess you could call it my “2020 song.” Today, I’m excited to officially release the song to the world. Some…

  • My Computer Kept Crashing…

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    My computer kept stopping with a “system overload” error as I was trying to record the acoustic guitar part.  My Macbook Pro is old but mighty (for a while longer I hope!). I changed some parameters and finished the track. Then, listened back. Horrible. “This sucks, @#$%! it” and I closed Logic (recording software).  Then…

  • Quarantine Sessions: Inthemiddle

    Quarantine Sessions: Inthemiddle

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    Here’s a song about growing older and stopping to take in the scenery. This is the second song in the quarantine sessions series where I just use my iPhone voice memo to record a single take. Here’s a link to Distrokid (my distributor) and they have links to all the digital services.

  • Quarantine Sessions: American Girl

    Quarantine Sessions: American Girl

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    After playing all these livestreams, it dawned on me that I could record these raw versions and release them. So I’m doing it. Here’s the deal.. Single take, no edits no studio magic. Just me+guitar+iPhone. First song to be released is a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song – “American Girl.” Here’s the link for…