In January 2023, I participated in a concept called Jamuary (sometimes also referred to by the more direct name “Song a Day for a Month”). The basic idea was to write one song every day, with midnight of that day being the targeted deadline. Due to my life schedule (I rarely got started working on a given day’s song until 7 p.m.), I allowed the flexibility to have the song written completely before midnight, but sometimes needed the midnight, 1 a.m., and on up to 5 a.m. hours to finish the actual recording.

Below is a table with embedded players for every song I wrote and recorded as part of this song-a-day challenge. You can click the song’s artwork to link to the blog entry I posted shortly after finishing recording, which has a description of the song’s inspiration, some recording details, and lyrics. I’ve also included my own subjective scoring of the “quality” of the demo, from 1–5. This is more about the quality of the recording instead of the song, as sometimes I could only record a live take with one mono track, and sometimes (often on weekends) I could spend the time to craft a decent recording with multitracking and overdubs.

I’ve marked songs with two different stars, a shiny star 🌟 for songs I really like and think have potential, and a ‘runner-up’ star ⭐️for songs I like but probably need some re-tooling. Something I learned fairly early in this process was that you can’t obsess over every line; at some point you have to commit and get things done.

You can download all the tracks in one ZIP file here: download.

Jamuary 2023

Every track written and recorded in a single day of January, 2023.2023-01-31

Date Cover Track Length Demo Quality Download
Sun, 1/1/23 Cover image: A small boat like a canoe, parked on a beach at a small lake. 1:01 1.5 Link
Mon, 1/2/23 ⭐️ A dream-like kid's nursurey, with a milky way of stars shining on some tiny, kid-sized houses. 2:30 1.5 Link
Tue, 1/3/23 A calendar where the grid is ocean water, and some days are tropical islands with palm trees sticking out of a small hill of sand. 2:28 1.5 Link
Wed, 1/4/23 A looking-down view of a rug that has been partially painted white by a paint roller, with a portion of the unpainted rug visible in the top right corner. 3:37 1 Link
Thu, 1/5/23 A disturbing AI-generated image of a faceless man, potentially wearning a suit, falling into some grass as seen from above. He seems to have more limbs than one would expect for a human. 2:59 4 Link
Fri, 1/6/23 🌟 A somewhat befuddled-looking, muppet-esque creature in cartoony paint form, with a goldish-but-dull crown on its head, and a neautral expression on its face. 3:12 3 Link
Sat, 1/7/23 2:53 3.5 Link
Sun, 1/8/23 🌟 Two abstract human-like figures talking. 4:07 4.5 Link
Mon, 1/9/23 A house with a bank vault on an external wall. 3:14 3 Link
Tue, 1/10/23 4:09 3 Link
Wed, 1/11/23 ⭐️ 1:50 3 Link
Thu, 1/12/23 ⭐️ A real 90's kid. He's even got that if-Picasso-art-were-real 90s vibe, in an Uncanny Valley sort of way. 3:32 3 Link
Fri, 1/13/23 ⭐️ 3:48 3.5 Link
Sat, 1/14/23 0:26 2 Link
Sun, 1/15/23 3:48 4 Link
Mon, 1/16/23 This song image has a highly stylized bald-headed person with what looks like a chainsaw coming out of their mouth. 3:21 4 Link
Tue, 1/17/23 🌟 A highly stylized profile of two people, the one on the left holding something elongated like a cane or a comically large cigar, the one on the right holding something abstract and standing in front of what appears to be water. 4:22 4 Link
Wed, 1/18/23 An abstract collection of colorful letters and music notes on a color music staff. 1:23 3 Links
Thu, 1/19/23 A stylized image of a man and a woman, fairly glamorous looking. 3:37 4 Link
Fri, 1/20/23 A few stylized yellow emoji faces, showing a range of emotions. 3:44 4 Link
Sat, 1/21/23 🌟 An abstract, stylized image of two faceless rock musicians, possibly on stage with their instruments. 3:31 4.5 Link
Sun, 1/22/23 A giant and slightly wavy ukulele, in low earth orbit. 4:07 3.25 Link
Mon, 1/23/23 ⭐️ A blue and purple nebula, floating in space. 3:44 3.5 Link
Tue, 1/24/23 ⭐️ Abstract illustrated image of a woman sitting at a desk (or in front of a book, or both) holding a giant clock with another gigantic clock behind her. Her face also vaguely resembles the face of a clock. 2:52 3 Link
Wed, 1/25/23 🌟 A portrait of a punk rock baby, with a mohawk and one hell of sneer. 3:24 3.5 Link
Thu, 1/26/23 A portrait of a woman, approximating the style of Pablo Picasso. 2:59 2.5 Link
Fri, 1/27/23 🌟 An abstract view of a wizard riding on a velociraptor. 3:39 4.5 Link
Sat, 1/28/23 A photorealistic image of a human head in profile, showing the brain, and the brain is melded with a circuit board. 2:37 4.333 Link
Sun, 1/29/23 🌟 An abstract, plastic white humanoid looking concernedly at a wall of televisions looming over him. 3:39 4.333 Link
Mon, 1/30/23 A mosh pit in a parking lot outside a build that is or once was a Pizza Hut. 4:02 3 Link
Tue, 1/31/23 🌟 A painting of a yellow smiley face on a blue-ish background. The smiley face has some character. 3:58 4.5 Link