Hi, I’m the Pickin’ Frog!

Hello, fellow jamband/americana/country/whatever-kinds-of-music-you-enjoy fans! I hope you enjoy my site as a place to read interesting opinions about music, discuss and debate said opinions, and maybe learn something new. Feel free to poke around the blog, shop, and whatever else ends up being hosted here!

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I got my start running a (primarily) Billy Strings themed meme page in February 2023, and it’s still going strong if you want to check it out! It started because I wrote a silly python script that could take a video, say of someone dancing, and a new song, and then scale the video’s speed and match tempo with the new song, so you could take any video and make someone dance to bluegrass music. I thought it was kind of funny and decided to make an instagram page. Around this time I also started experimenting with Midjourney AI and generating fun, psychedelic images for memes. Later on I started using Photoshop and other Adobe tools as well to make some bootleg merch, which I started selling on Redbubble. This whole instagram side project had really re-ignited my creativity and I decided I also wanted to start doing some writing – show reviews and that sort of thing – so I published a few blog posts on Medium.

Over the course of the year and my account started to grow, I realized I wanted to take on a bigger project and try and consolidate all these things into one place, one website, where I was able to keep my creative output totally under my control. Hence, The Pickin’ Frog was born. Hope you enjoy!