Nick The Dream Weaver

Folk musician who likes to dabble in other genres like swing, jazz, reggae, alternative, blues, and others. Story teller, comedic, and serious life stories.

I started writing songs in the 1980's. I wasn't playing out at all and very nervous to get up on stages. My song writing progressed slowly, but steadily. In 1997 I made it a point to overcome my fear of performing in public. I started plying in local coffee shops and was soon hosting a local jam. My song writing started increasing. I decided I didn't want to stick to one genre and started expanding my song writing to include many of the genres I enjoy. In 2001, I was getting the urge to produce a CD. Other musician friends around me were already doing it and I wanted to get in on it as well. I couldn't really afford studio time though. So I propelled into the home studio category. I bought recording equipment and my living room became my studio. I could spend as much time as I wanted, or needed, to put together a CD. In 2002 I produced my first CD, Stage One. So named because it was the first stage for me as a self produced song writer/producer/musician. I also bought other instruments, bass, hand drums, keyboard, and started learning some keyboard basics. I didn't start working more on the bass until I produced my 6th CD, but I get ahead of myself here. In 2003 I produced 2 more CD's. Alaska Jam, which had many songs I had written about Alaska, my home, and Suite Werewolf: A Love Story, which was more Alternative Folk. The first 6 songs on Suite Werewolf are a alternative folk suite with a prologue and and an epilogue. Then, in 2005, I moved to Vermont temporarily for a winter job, taking my instruments and recording equipment with me. I continued to play some local venues and started working on my fourth CD, This Gypsy Life And I. I completed that project while in Vermont and then came back to Alaska in 2006. In 2007, I started working on a new project and started a band with a drummer I met. His last name is Nolan and mine is Weaver, so we came up with a band name that was a a hybrid of both of our last names: Weanoverlan. I was working on creating a 5th CD that was a self titled "Weanoverlan" CD. In December of that same year, my apartment building burned to the ground and I lost everything, including a stack of more than 200 unproduced songs. I managed to produce most of the Weanoverlan CD just before that cataclysm. We did some shows in 2008 and that's where I came up with three more live recordings to finish up the Weanoverlan CD. Weanoverlan only lasted through the summer of 2008. My drummer got busy with other things and I had lost my MOJO in that fire as well. I had been working on another project that same year that never got completed to my satisfaction until 2018 so at first it was a 4 song EP called Sanity, What?. Losing all those songs and equipment created a huge writer's block that It took a few years to work through, but work through it, I did. And with the love and support of many local musicians, I soon had more guitars than I knew what to do with and acquired new recording equipment. I started working on my 7th CD. In 2009 I released Love, Passion, And Romance. A CD full of love songs. I figured every musician should produce at least one CD that was a collection of love songs. In 2010, I released my 8th CD, Bachelorette Party And Other URBAN Legends. It was my last CD for awhile. At that point, I was joining musician sites like REVERBNATION, and MYSPACE. I was making everything available in digital format for fans. Later, I joined Facebook and started a Facebook band page that linked with Reverbnation. I continued to write and had also started putting home videos on youtube as well. In 2017, I started putting my CD's, only available in digital format, on CDBaby. As of June 2018, I have re-released all but 3 of the original CD's, plus two compilation CD's, an extended version of Sanity, What? (17 songs now) and four singles.