The Dad Joke Blues Project

The Dad Joke Blues Project raises funds to support men's mental health.
Please join the community, make us all feel better, and support the project here:
https://www.facebook.com/DadJokeBlues/
- all sales proceeds are donated to Movember.

Support men's mental health by buying the electric or acoustic versions and adding your own Dad joke to them
from CD Baby or from iTunes
then sharing them with the community.

Thank you for your support.

Whoops! Big opportunity for support missed ...

Some time ago I entered Dad Joke Blues into AMRAP's Airit program, which connects radio broadcaster to new music. It is an essential step for self-published musicians - several radio stations have played the songs off the back of this... More

Posted by Hughie on Nov 2, 2017, 5:48 PM | Comments (0)

Dad Joke Blues gets some recognition!

You could have knocked me down with a feather last night when I received a notice that Dad Joke Blues has been shortlisted for the Australian Songwriters Association Songwriting Contest! The acoustic version is in the Folk/Acoustic catgory. This, of... More

Posted by Hughie on Oct 6, 2017, 10:55 AM | Comments (0)

Unsigned Only song contest entry

Just found out that Dad Joke Blues did not make the cut for UO this year. To be fair, this was a long shot entry in the Folk Singer-Songwriter category so it's not really surprising ... still entereed in two... More

Posted by Hughie on Jul 13, 2017, 10:38 AM | Comments (0)

Entered Dad Joke Blues in the ASA song contest

At long last I've entered a song in the Australian Songwriters Association Songwriting Contest. I've been the Brisbane Regional Coordinator for several years now, but have never entered a song until now - mainly bcause until recently, RCs were not... More

Posted by Hughie on Apr 29, 2017, 10:30 AM | Comments (0)

Entered USA Songwriting Contest

Today I entered Dad Joke Blues into the USA Song Contest. Cost me US$35 for the version below to enter the "Comedy/Novelty" category. Winners will be determined by November 15, 2017.... More

Posted by Hughie on Feb 17, 2017, 8:02 PM | Comments (0)

Entered Unsigned Only song contest

OK, so the Dad Joke Blues just got entered into the Unsigned Only Music Competition for US$35. The version posted below was entered into the Folk/Singer-songwriter category, which seemed the most appropriate ... Winners for the 2017 competition will... More

Posted by Hughie on Feb 8, 2017, 7:47 PM | Comments (0)

Dad Joke Blues

Last weekend the family went up to the farm. We had a stack of fun patting Dopey the steer and generally chilling, and in a moment of intense craziness we came up with a future project idea: the Huge Family... More

Posted by Huge on Apr 30, 2016, 12:53 PM | Comments (0)

Found me a producer ... and got the Dad Joke Blues

Recorded the Dad Joke Blues for a fun home project - two versions. Gumby and Mike came over a while back and we jammed on it for an afternoon and recorded some stuff. One version is electric - that's how... More

Posted by Hughie on Feb 2, 2016, 7:22 PM | Comments (0)