I just got back from a short tour through NY, PA and MD - the highlight of which was winning the Susquehanna Festival Songwriting Contest and playing on the mainstage. And I've been invited back to play there again next year! Thank you all for your crossed fingers - it worked! I'll blog soon about the whole trip, but for now check out the winning songs, "Subway Sparrow" and "Jetpack" on my online presskit, here.

Hope 2008 is excellent for all y'all - it's already been great for me with a couple sweet circus-y shows and a copy of Guitar Hero 3. You can read about the shows (& maybe some guitar hero too) in my blog section above.

Some friends of mine put together an annual Holiday CD - everyone contributes songs, singing, playing, etc. including a song made up on the spot "Wind from the North" and a cute little original called "Coal on Christmas" (with a little "jetpack" reference for you jetpack finders out there). Listen to both in the music section above.

And for more holiday tunes off the CD, check out http://www.myspace.com/songsfortheholidays. If you'd like a copy of the whole CD, let me know and I'll make sure Santa puts one in your stocking.

So I'm prepping for my last couple shows and I head down to the basement to grab more CDs... except there aren't any... where did my CD's go? Didn't I used to have 1000 CD's down here???

It's been a year since my first CD printing of 1000 CDs and... I'm almost sold out!!! HOLY!

I know, I know. I haven't exactly gone platinum here... but I'm still pretty proud of myself. Although I'm still about 20 CD's away from selling out completely.

SO I NEED YOUR HELP. I'm biased, but I'm pretty sure that David Hein CD's make excellent Christmas presents. I've got you down for 5 each. Seriously, if you'd like to help me make 2007 amazing while giving the joy of independent music, you can purchase a CD at www.indiepool.com.

Thanks to everyone who came out to C'est What last Wednesday for my SORT-OF CD RELEASE PARTY. It was a totally fun night featuring 3 bass players in one set, a couple new tunes, and some C'est What Apricot beer. For those of you who missed the memo, last month Puretracks.com & Aviva shipped 10,000 CDs of my music across Canada. They featured 2 new exclusive tracks, which you can hear here in my music section.