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Fellow student donates on Giving Day in honor of late friend LISA SALINAS Editor-in-Chief lmsalinas@smu.edu Giving Day at SMU is an annual opportunity for donors to fund organizations and ideas on campus. Donors can choose from providing air fare to students studying abroad, educating future business leaders, replacing furniture in buildings on campus.. the list goes on and on. Giving Day was on March 7 this year. One Mustang took advantage of this day to give back to a cause that is dear to his heart. Senior Michael Robertson will donate $5,000 anualy for five years as a matching gift to SMU's Women and LGBT Center, student organizations affiliated with the center and the center's alumni outreach to honor the life of SMU student and late friend of Robertson, Jaime Shim, who died last year by suicide. Robertson recalled first meeting Shim a couple years ago. SMUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Women & LGBT Center "Jamie and I first met in fall 2014 at the Umphrey Lee cafeteria actually," Robertson said. "And then we had classes together because we were both political science majors." Robertson had not seen Shim for a while before his death. "He had cut off contact with his friends and his professors, so I hadn't actually seen him for over a month before he committed suicide," Robertson said. Shim suffered from depression, which made academics and life hard for him, according to Robertson. "Jamie was a very driven and successful student so it was extremely difficult for him and his image of himself when he was having trouble in school because of the depression," Robertson said. Shim was very open about being a transgendered male, something that he never hid, according to Robertson. "Jamie, I thought showed a lot of courage for expressing his gender identity and sexual orientation," Robertson said. "He was never shy; he was never closeted in any way." However, Shim faced adverse reactions due to his gender identity, according to Robertson. "It was very difficult, because even here at SMU he faced discrimination from fellow students, people who were uncomfortable with who he was," Robertson said. Robertson created the memorial grant in honor of Shim to bring awareness of the LGBT community to SMU and also to make a statement about diversity on campus. "The pressure to be the same or to fit societal norms is very strong, but even though there is this natural tension and tendency to conform, there is space here at SMU for

people to be different," Robertson said. "Jamie's life was part of that broader story of all of us trying to find space to be ourselves." Robertson said he hopes to help the Women and LGBT Center in any way he can with his donation. Every dollar that a donor gives on Giving Day will be matched by Robertson's dollar; the university will also give money to match Robertson's. "For example, if they want to hire a guest speaker, or if they want to do an event and it costs money for catering or things like that," Robertson said. Program Advisor of the Women and LGBT Center Val Erwin is very grateful for Robertson's donation. She believes the purpose behind this donation sends a message to the SMU community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were incredibly grateful for such a generous gift to the Women & LGBT Center," Erwin said in an email interview. "The fact that it was a gift from a student in Photo by Mollie Mayfield memory of a student made the gift even more touching and powerful. It is the type of gift that can add to the work we do as a center, especially since the goal is to help encourage other donations to the center." Erwin believes the gift will help spread the ultimate purpose of the Center. "This gift allows for the Women & LGBT Center to expand our education about the LGBT community on campus," Erwin said. Erwin said Center staff already has plans for how they will allocate the Robertson's donation. "We are specifically planning on using it for the LGBT Equality Forum, to bring the AIDS Memorial Quilt to campus, and to create an LGBT student leadership award," Erwin said. Ultimately, Robertson's goal in creating this fund is to honor Shim's courage and let the SMU community know that diversity is welcomed. "I wanted to do something to acknowledge the sacrifices Jamie made and to also sort of think about in this broader context of how this community and how Americans will generally think about issues about gender identity and sexual orientation," Robertson said. "I wanted the SMU community to say that we are open to this and we are supportive." Robertson said he hopes his grant will eventually change on-campus culture. "This will help to give the Women & LGBT Center a larger voice on campus, which we hope in turn will help change the culture on campus, make it more inclusive," Robertson said.

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President George W. Bush honors war veterans with a paintbrush LAUREN WINTERHALDER Contributing Writer lwinterhalde@smu.edu Not just any President uses his time after his presidency to honor veterans, let alone with a paintbrush. Former President George W. Bush’s painting pastime has now turned into a way for him to honor members of the United States military. His paintings will be featured at the George W. Bush Presidential Center on SMU campus in the exhibit “Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief ’s Tribute to America’s Warriors.” The exhibit will showcase 66 portraits and a four-panel mural of 98 veterans, including men and women still in active duty. Bush has made supporting war veterans a top priority and the George W. Bush Institute since his presidency ended in 2009. The exhibit “Portrait’s of Courage,”

is part of President Bush’s and the Bush Institute’s Military Service Initiative goal to support post-9/11 veterans and their families in their transition back into society and eliminate the stigma veterans face when speaking about their mental and physical well-being. Bush took up painting in 2012 and first released a series of portraits of world leaders in 2014. He then realized he wanted to paint portraits of service men and women who served while he was their commanderin-chief. Vibrant portraits of military veterans line the walls of the exhibits that leave visitors in awe of the former President’s skills. Exhibit visitor Brooke Swan found the portraits to be a surprisingly beautiful tribute to our military’s service. “I didn’t know what to expect when coming to the exhibit, but I am pleasantly surprised by it,” Swan said. “The portraits show President Bush’s dedication to our

nation’s military. It’s great to see and know that.” Other visitors experience the same feeling when viewing the portraits. Bush Library docent Sandra Mallon has seen a steady stream of visitors since the exhibit started. “So far, everyone who walks into the exhibit has been moved by the portraits. My favorite portraits are the two of veteran, Christopher Andrew Turner,” Mallon said. In the first portrait he looks sad and sunken in and the second is him months later happier. It’s very moving.” Patrons can see the moving exhibit painted by our nation’s 43rd President from March 2 through Oct. 1, 2017, who leaves visitors with the reason for his exhibit on the wall of the George W. Bush Presidential Center: “I painted these men and women as a way to honor their service to the country and to show my respect for their sacrifice and courage.”

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Students of all majors belted high notes and busted out dance moves March 5 during a 24-Hour Musical auditions. SMU Student Theatre (SMUST), Program Council and Student Senate have come together once more to put on the third annual 24-Hour Musical. Kaylyn Buckley and Katie Ibrahim will direct this year’s show “Chicago,” at 2 p.m. April 15 in the Greer Garson Theatre. Potential cast members prepared 16 to 32 bars of an appropriate musical theatre song and attended a dance call, where choreographer Sam Weber taught 30 seconds of a routine. Sophomore Matthew Holevas left his audition confident. “I think I did well,” Holevas said. “I was trying to gauge they’re reaction, but they were all kind of stone-faced.” First-year theatre major Stevie Keese said “Chicago” is one of her favorite musicals. “I’d kill to be one of the six merry murderesses,” Keese said. “But anything would be great.” This was the first time the 24-Hour Musical has had a dance call during auditions due to the immensely stylized dance movements found in “Chicago.” “We’re looking for their ability to pick up unfamiliar styles of choreography,” Weber said.

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Performers attended the dance call Sunday and quickly picked up the choreography taught to them. “We got through it and we had fun,” Keese said. 24-Hour Musical began three years ago with the show “Spring Awakening.” Two seniors recognized a lack of musical opportunities on campus and wanted to include all students, not just theatre majors. “They created this project in hopes of engaging the entire community,” SMUST producer Marcus Pinon said.

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RewardStyle launches new LiketoKnow.it app GABRIELLA BRADLEY projects into major Style Editor cash cows. gjbradley@smu.edu It started by linking SMU alumni are pretty impressive. There’s Academy Award winning actress Kathy Bates; Whitney Wolfe, founder of this generation’s hottest dating apps, Tinder and Bumble; and Blake Mycoskie, the philanthropist most widely known for founding TOMS shoes. One of our most innovative alumni, however, is Amber Venz Box. She recently scored a spot on the exclusive Forbes “30 Under 30” list and has been called the “Mark Zuckerberg of fashion.” She also has been profiled by all the top publications, including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Business Insider. Box and her now-husband Baxter Box founded the company rewardStyle in 2011. If you haven’t heard of it, it is time to come out from under your rock. The company has revolutionized the fashion blogging industry, transforming passion

modeled items from a blogger’s website to the retailer’s store, allowing customers to directly buy their favorite items and giving bloggers a commission for the sale. This technology turned these bloggers into fashion influencers, who quickly began driving millions of dollars in sales. As social media continued to evolve, RewardStyle found that the majority of the content being created was posted to Instagram, a platform that does not support links, which make up the main source of RewardStyle’s model. To combat this, RewardStyle created LiketoKnow.it, a service that allows users to shop via Instagram posts. After signing up for the service, users could like an Instagram post and have the shopping information sent directly to their inbox. RewardStyle could now drive sales via blogs and Instagram, but multiple social media platforms being

used by influencers, such as Snapchat, that could not be captured. This will no longer be the case as of March 6: RewardStyle has launched the long-awaited LiketoKnow.it app. This app allows users to screenshot any form of an influencer’s content on social media or the mobile web and save the image and its shopping information in a feed. This means no more saving countless emails in your inbox to hold on to shopping details. It also means no more switching from app to app trying to locate where you can find the enviable item someone is sporting. With more than 12,000 influencers, 4,000 retailers, and a projected $1 billion in driven sales this year, this app is another impressive move by the start up company to continue revolutionizing the way fashion influencers drive sales. Given the way that RewardStyle has challenged the fashion world, Venz Box is proof that “world changers are shaped here.”

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REECE KELLEY GRAHAM Sports Writer rkgraham@smu.edu Last time the Mustangs played in the American Athletic Conference Tournament, they won it. That was two years ago. Last season, SMU was prevented from participating by the postseason ban levied by the NCAA. Now allowed to play for a championship once again and playing with only seven scholarship players, one might expect SMU head coach Tim Jankovich to be nervous about trying to win three games in three days. But Jankovich said before practice March 7 that he is no more nervous than he has been playing with a limited roster for a majority of the season. “I think the conference tournament is an incredible challenge for our guys because of our numbers,” Jankovich said. With so little depth, the Mustangs are not focused on the big picture right now. Finding postseason success will come by conquering one challenge at a time, one game at a time. “We have to just try to win the game that’s in front of us,” Jankovich said. “I don’t think we can go into the first game thinking about the third game. I think that would be a mistake.” These Mustangs look quite different from the team that won the AAC Tournament championship in 2015. Nic Moore, who won AAC player of the year that season, is gone. So is Markus Kennedy, the tournament MVP. Ben Moore and Sterling Brown, SMU’s only seniors on scholarship, were sophomores then. Throw in Ben Emelogu, who had just transferred from Virginia Tech, and senior walk-on Jonathan Wilfong, and only four current Mustangs helped earn the program’s first conference title since 1993. SMU also had more players in 2015. When SMU upset a Connecticut team on its home floor for the championship, nine Mustangs were averaging at least 15 minutes per game. Currently, six SMU players average at least 21 minutes, with the Mustangs’ normal starters averaging just under 29. SMU played half of its final two regular season games with only six scholarship players.

Emelogu, who injured his ankle in the first half of the March 2 game against Tulsa, did not play in the second half of the March 4 game against Memphis, citing pain. “He’s getting better,” Jankovich said. “We’re optimistic about that. He’ll be great by Friday I hope.” The Mustangs clinched the No.1 seed in the tournament and will play on the side of the bracket featuring Central Florida (4), Memphis (5), Temple (8) and East Carolina (9). SMU went a combined 7-0 against those teams during the regular season. The Mustangs will play either Temple or East Carolina in the quarterfinals on Friday. SMU won both of its games against the Pirates by a combined margin of 71 points. The Mustangs also defeated Temple twice, but another matchup against the Owls on a neutral court might prove to be more interesting. Temple took down Florida State and West Virginia, two top 25 RPI teams, on back-to-back nights during non-conference play. Those wins came in an invitational tournament, also on a neutral floor. “You look outside of the league games, you could easily argue they had the best wins in our league,” Jankovich said. “Temple is a great program and Fran [Dunphy] is a great coach. We have a lot of respect for them, for sure.” The winner of the quarterfinal will face either Central Florida or Memphis. SMU clobbered Memphis in its season finale 103-62. The Mustangs also earned a fivepoint win on the road against the UCF in January. SMU played that game without Jarrey Foster. Most of the teams that heavily challenged the Mustangs during conference play are on the other side of the bracket, including Cincinnati (2), the team responsible for SMU’s only conference loss, Houston (3), who led the Mustangs for most of the game in Hofheinz Pavilion, and Connecticut (6), once again playing on its homecourt for the tournament. “I don’t think there’s anybody we’re hoping that we play,” Jankovich said. “We would just like to try to win the tournament.” Playing three games in a row might not be the ideal situation, but SMU is dreaming big about what it could accomplish in March. “I just think this is a very confident group by nature,” Jankovich said. “Whatever you put in front of them, they’re going to embrace the challenge.”

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Jonathan Wilfong makes the most of his Senior Day opportunity PATRICK ENGEL Associate Sports Editor pengel@smu.edu Beneath all the confetti marking SMU’s second outright American Athletic Conference title in three seasons and the 3-pointers and dunks that helped clinch it on March 4, head coach Tim Jankovich solved a problem. He played Jonathan Wilfong for meaningful minutes. Call it a Senior Day reward, but also a gesture of trust that resolved an issue that had been eating at Jankovich for much of the season. Jankovich told Wilfong to be ready for a game in which he needs to play major minutes this year. With seven guys, SMU is an injury or ejection away from needing him. Prior to SMU’s win vs. Tulsa on March 2, that scenario arose four times in conference games this year. In those four games, Wilfong played a grand total of one minute. “He has deserved to play,” Jankovich said. “The tough thing is that he’s on such a good team. There are guys that are hard to take out of the game. Jonathan has worked his way up into a guy that can play legitimate minutes in Division I basketball.” In those four games, SMU’s main rotation players were too crucial for Jankovich to sub out. SMU won three of those games by single digits: a 65-60 win at UCF, a 60-51 win vs. Cincinnati and a comeback 80-75 win vs. Tulane. The fourth was a 6650 win at Temple that SMU didn’t comfortably put away until the final three minutes. A few times this season, Wilfong has played at the end of the first half, but not

for more than a minute and only in situations in which Jankovich wants to rest his starters or keep them out of foul trouble. This year is not the matter’s first acknowledgement. It came up after the game that gave Wilfong his most famous moment 777 days prior to his final game at Moody. He put the exclamation point on SMU’s 77-54 win vs. East Carolina that day, picking off a lazy pass at the top of the key and scooting toward the hoop unobstructed. Then he rose up and dunked the ball with one hand. It was his first dunk to date at SMU as a result of his first career steal. He calmly ran back down the court to play out the final six seconds. The SMU bench and the crowd was anything but calm. Ben Moore and Sterling Brown lept from their seats onto the court, flashing milewide smiles. Nic Moore let out a yell as he almost fell to his knees. At the buzzer, his teammates ran the length of the floor and mobbed him. “He’s better than people think. I need to start to realize that we might need to use him,” then-SMU head coach Larry Brown said. That need didn’t arise, though. He played three games and in the rest of the season. He started one game in 2015-16 on the road in his hometown of Memphis. He played the first four minutes, recording one assist and one personal foul. When the chance came Saturday, also against Memphis – not out of need, but out of trust – Wilfong proved trustworthy. Wilfong made his first start at Moody on Senior Day. He played the first five minutes of the game. The score when he

came out of the game? SMU 17, Memphis 6. Wilfong dished out two assists in the first three minutes. One came on a dribble-drive, where he collapsed a defender with him for a couple steps after initially passing up an open three-pointer then passed back to an open Ben Moore along the baseline. Moore drilled a mid-range jumper. He played 10 minutes in the second half with Ben Emelogu sitting out to rest an ankle injury sustained March 2. That’s when SMU fans got their favorite reason to cheer. With 6:14 left in the game, Wilfong pulled up for a baseline jumper and sank it. Three minutes later, he made a layup. Sitting at a dais next to fellow seniors Ben Moore and Sterling Brown after the game, he spoke of his appreciation for the crowd and its countless “We Want Wilfong” chants that have echoed in Moody the last four years. “It’s nice to hear the roar,” Wilfong said, conference title trophy resting in front of him. “Sometimes you just want to get in the zone of a game, because everybody is yelling at me to shoot. But it’s nice to get that bucket and let them cheer. Then I can just play.” His final stat line read four points and three assists plus one starting lineup introduction. All are career highs. “The fans know he puts in the work,” Brown said. “They want to see him do good out there. They’ve loved him since we were freshmen.” Even if the minutes didn’t always reflect it, so has the coaching staff.

SMU senior guard Jonathan Wilfong cuts down the net after SMU won the outright AAC title with a 103-62 win vs. Memphis on March 4.

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Luckily, we attend school on a beautiful campus here at SMU. And thankfully, our campus is relatively small – as far as college campuses go. However, if you make the walk from the new commons every day, you know that walking from one end of campus to the other can be a pain. That being said, what is the best way to get around SMU’s campus? Walking The best part about this option is that it is cheap and convenient – no purchase necessary. It also affords more opportunities to run into friends and to spend time socializing on the walk in between classes. However, it starts to become uncomfortable once temperatures climb to full Texas heat wave levels. Additionally, crossing campus from one far end to the other can take 15 minutes at a good pace – not fast enough for the 10-minute window between classes. If you somehow get stuck going from PRW to Fondren Science, then good luck being on time. While walking is

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many people’s choice by default, it is perhaps not the most efficient way to get around. Biking Cycling is easily the fastest way to get around campus; no one can travel faster than someone on a bike. However, buying a bike can be expensive – about several hundred dollars. Additionally, it can be a hassle to find a place to lock up your bike once you get to class, taking up time. If two classes are close together, sometimes it takes more time to unlock and relock the bike than it does to just walking. Furthermore, bikes get stolen somewhat frequently on SMU’s campus. So if you choose to purchase a bike be sure to purchase a solid U-bolt rather than a cable lock; thieves can cut the cable-style locks easily and discreetly. While a bike may be

the fastest way to get around campus, you pay for this added speed with some extra hassle and the risk of your investment being stolen. Skateboarding Skateboarding is an increasingly popular option on campus, with everything from longboards to penny boards seen daily. Skateboards provide the increased speed of wheeled transportation, with less hassle of locking up a bike. Both Arnold and Umph have skateboard racks. They can also easily be carried inside of buildings to classes, which greatly reduces the risk of having your ride stolen. The downside of skateboarding is that numerous hazards on SMU’s campus exist, from pavers to pedestrians, which can easily catch the small skateboard

wheels and cause a crash. Also, it generally requires more coordination and practice than biking. One must be a fairly confident skateboarder to ride quickly on SMU’s campus, especially during busy times in between classes. The Winner? The “best” mode of transportation comes down to one’s personal choice. Walking is fine for SMU’s campus size– however, if you want to put up with the little extra hassle of carrying a skateboard or locking up a bike, investing in a different mode of transportation can speed up some of those long trips across campus. So if you find yourself slowly trudging across campus every day and are looking for a change, certainly consider getting a bike or a skateboard, just make sure to wear a helmet.

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KELLY KOLFF Assoc. A&L Editor kkolff@smu.edu Waves of team members rush into the expansive dance studio, their eager chatter filling the room. People run left and right while donning their heels so they can get going. Some members are already practicing as others catch up with each other. STOMP STOMP CLAP. The team knows this signal and they respond to their coach in unison. Ballroom practice has officially begun. Enthusiasm is infectious within the SMU ballroom team. Everyone gives a concerted effort to perform their best, whatever that may be. This effort paid off at their last competition in Houston the weekend of Feb. 10, where the team placed in nearly every event. Yet captain Kayla Goldberg stresses that competing is never the goal of the team. “I just encourage everyone to think of it more as personal growth and personal improvement,” Goldberg said. “Really whatever color ribbon you get isn’t indicative of how good of a dancer you are or how much effort you put into it.” When they’re not in the studio, team members like to practice their ballroom skills on weekends. Many members go salsa or swing dancing together in venues around Dallas, Goldberg said. “Not only are you learning how to dance but you’re also making friends,” Goldberg said. “Most of my closest friends from SMU are on

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the ballroom team, mostly because we all go dancing on the weekends and just have such a great time whenever we’re together.” Dallas isn’t the only place where ballroom fanatics go to blow off some steam. The dance follows them everywhere, even across the pond. “Once you learn how to ballroom dance, even if it’s just the basics, you can do it anywhere in the world with anyone who knows how to ballroom dance,” Goldberg said. Goldberg experienced this international aspect of ballroom dance firsthand junior year when she studied abroad, where she danced alongside Barcelona and Paris natives. “There are some regional differences but for the most part, once you know how to do it you can do it with anyone else who knows how to do it,” Goldberg said. The team will be putting their honed skills to the test in April at its biggest

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competition of the year at the University of Texas. The rest of the spring semester is dedicated to making sure the first years learn all 10 dances and that older dancers refine their moves. Aside from preparing for competitions, the SMU ballroom team holds its own events to spread the swing spirit. Last fall, the team held a swing-dancing night where attendees were taught swing basics then danced all night. Ballroom also pairs up with other organizations to put on themed events. College Hispanic American Students (CHAS) teamed up with Ballroom for Latin Night on March 3 for a night filled with food and dancing. It goes to show that no matter what they’re doing, SMU ballroom always has a blast. “It sounds cheesy, but we’re really a big family,” Goldberg said.

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Grammy-nominated singer Vanessa Carlton talks albums, shows and more RILEY COVEN Arts & Life Editor rcoven@smu.edu Grammy-nominated singer Vanessa Carlton recently released “Earlier Things Live.” Since leaving her label in 2008, Carlton has been focusing on making the music she wants to make and playing the shows that she wants to play. The Campus Weekly was lucky enough to be able to speak to Vanessa about her new album, her upcoming show and more. CW: What made you want to do a live album? VC: It was my manager Sean’s idea. He really liked the last tour. It was a strong show, and my voice has

changed so much over the years. I’m really in a solid spot at the moment. It was a long time coming, but it was the right time. CW: What changed for you to put you in such a position? VC: I left the major label system in 2008, which was one of the best things I’ve ever done. I was able start over, and it’s really amazing when you don’t have a panel of executives to answer to and you just kind of explore on your own and you can follow your curiosities. I think for me, I just didn’t really do well enough for them. I didn’t make for a good pop star, it was not my trajectory at all. So, I think 2011 when I made “Rabbits on the Run” – that was the beginning of me really

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finding my footing, so to speak. And making the record I always wanted to make and that led to “Liberman” which led to my version of that. CW: That was your first record off the label, so what was different about that approach for you creating that album? VC: “Rabbits on the Run” was actually the first.

I started conceiving that record in 2009. It was a huge collaboration amongst artists that I always wanted to work with, and I kind of pieced it together on my own. And then “Liberman” was my first concept album so I wanted everything to sound a certain way, like a dream for lack of a better word, and to just generalize the sound. I wanted it to sound like a dream. I would say when you’re working outside of a system that’s, quite bigger than you, you get to create your own rules, you don’t think twice about taking risks. So I think that’s how – that only makes an art project better in my opinion. CW: I would imagine that your style definitely changed a bit leading the way to that,

but since then do you believe your sound has evolved as well? VC: Yeah, if you listen to “Liberman,” compared to my first record it probably sounds like two different people. “Rabbits on the Run” was definitely the bridge. I think it’s been a big evolution. CW: Would you consider yourself more of a studio artist or a live performer, or is there a crossover? VC: They’re two totally different experiences. The only reason why I prefer the studio is because I, and this isn’t until I started working with Steve Osbourne, who is the producer and engineer who’s really taken me under his wing on the last two albums, he just gets you to play with sound.

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You discover another side of just playing your instrument when you just start turning knobs and manipulating sound; it can be incredible. I think performing live, I’ve gotten way better at it over the years; I’m probably the best live performer I’ve been since I started. And you hope that you just keep getting better and not worse, that’s for sure. I’m so very lucky that’s my job – that I get to connect with people and just be on a stage playing. It’s definitely a cool job. Touring is grueling, so you know, if I could do it in a private jet? Fine. I don’t care. I could do it all here. Carlton will perform in Dallas at the Granada Theater on Friday, March 24.