Dave Von Bieker

Indie folk to haunt your heart with small stories and big questions.

Courtney Marie Andrews

Good Things To Be Good To Others

“Please know you deserve to be loved” From Trying To Be Free Words have power. When my self-doubt has me stuck as a ship across the Suez Canal, the words of a friend – even the encouragement of a stranger – can free me. In the days since my new single came

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Good Things for Trying To Be Free

Trying To Be Free is already my most successful song ever by many measures. On its first day the song received over 100 streams on Spotify – a number I’ve never even glanced at until now. By the end of the weekend that number had surpassed 200. More importantly, I’

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Good Things for Big Questions

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Good Things for Wide-Eyes

Today, as the sun tows spring slowly onto the shore, I’m longing to get back out into the world outside and gaze upon some wonder. In the meantime, I’ve collected Three Good Things for Wide Eyes that will help in the ‘visual wonder’ department. Thing To Listen To:

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I'm WAY more excited than I look in this video (unboxing day)!

Umm -  big news friends.  Today I got something very special in the mail - MY NEW ALBUM! That's right - today I got to hold my first full-length CD in my hands, thanks to a UPS man who got scared away by our tiny barking dog. At

Good Things From The Eighties

This week I’m throwing an eighties cover party called Child Of The Eighties, so I’ve dug up three Good Things to share with you from the decade of glitz and glam. Get Your Ticket Thing To Listen To: Cover Me in the Eighties I’ve been uploading eighties

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Good Things for New Ways

The world is changing. I know that can feel like a bad thing a lot of the time these days, but some of these changes are good. We are finding new ways to connect and create even while apart – and these new ways won’t disappear when the virus does.

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Good Things for "Still Winter"

Thing To Listen To: Meet Me At The Edge Of The World For several recent years, I’ve had the pleasure of learning songwriting for music and life partners Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist, better known as Over The Rhine. At least, better known in some parts of the world.

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Good Things to Capture Your Heart

Thing To Listen To: This Must Be Shawn Colvin’s Place This week I was putting together a great big playlist of my favourite love songs of all time. Part of the process was reading lists of “best love songs” online and seeing what stuck for me. Another part was

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Places We Can't Live (Solo Acoustic) 🎵

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Good Things From Long Ago

Good Things are everywhere, especially if we are willing to look backward. In this week’s Good Things we start by listening to the nineties then travel back a hundred years and finally hundreds more years, finding beauty all along our way. Thing To Listen To: Wildflowers At Home I

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Good Things to Celebrate The Album

We live in an era of singles. One-offs. Momentary attention. Think back to your favourite albums as a teenager. Remember sitting beside the CD player (record player, tape deck) and letting your favourite music overtake you. I remember sitting with Hayden’s Everything I Long For song after song. I

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Good Things to Grow Your Self

Looking for ways to stretch and grow at the start of another year? Try these three. Thing To Listen To: CARM Listening to music in new genres can stretch your sonic muscles quickly, especially when the music is as eclectic as CARM’s recent releases. CARM is the musical moniker

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The Goal(s) Post for 2021

For the past several years I’ve taken time in January to set goals, only to fall short as the year progresses. Still, where I’ve failed I’ve learned, and where I’ve fallen short I’ve moved forward further than had I not had a target in sight.

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20 Little Mercies That Saved My 2020

2020 is now history and not many will miss the year that gave us the worst global pandemic in a century. Of course, that’s not the whole story. It helps to take stock and count blessings. You may be surprised, like me, to find just how many there have

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Good Things to Relax To

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Good Things To Make

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I Just Want Christmas To End 🎵

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O Little Town of Bethlehem 🎵

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Good Things to Build Your Nest

This week I'm thinking a lot about gathering. Some times we give birth to wonderful new things, and the rest of our lives we are preparing. Gathering. Building a nest in anticipation of new life. The key to gathering is paying attention. Keeping the doors and windows wide

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Closely Related (Lightning In a Bottle Demo Version) 🎵

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Good Things for Tale Tellers

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Good Things to Face Your Fears

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Good Things to Marvel At

As the snow falls, you may be in need of a little wonder. Here are three things to marvel at this week so stop being such a grownup and open up your little heart ... Thing To Listen To: Make Believe with Hayden Since I heard As Bad As They Seem