The Widetrack Chronicles 89: 2021 in Review

Happy New Year! We hope 2022 is a great year for you!

We're looking forward to the a fine one ourselves... But first, let's look back at some of the highlights of the…

The Widetrack Chronicles 87: Our Driving Motivation

At some point in our lives, each of us is asked, “What positive contribution(s) are you making/did you make to the world? How did you, in your own small way, leave it a…

The Widetrack Chronicles 86: Update (November 2021)

Ron here... A couple new updates to report in the world of Widetrack...

Packing all the activity he can into his senior year of high school, Zach has been busy young man... But…

The Widetrack Chronicles 85: Update (October 2021)

Having a musical partnership of one band member attending his senior year in high school, with a demanding scholastic and social activities schedule, and the other working a demanding day job, presents certain…

The Widetrack Chronicles 84:
Our opening slot for Last In Line was a blast!

Last Sunday, August 22, we played our second live show last together, in this present incarnation of Widetrack as a two-piece entity... and what a blast…

The Widetrack Chronicles 83: 
Crofoot show a smashing success!

A live show... FINALLY!

This show was supposed to happen in April of 2020... To say that it was worth the wait would be an understatement... We had an absolute blast!!…

The Widetrack Chronicles 82: Current Highlights 

Things have been moving at a pretty rapid pace for us in these newly-post-pandemic times... Which is a good thing, as there's never time to waste these days...

As previously announced, we've been…

The Widetrack Chronicles 81: The Ticking Clock

Time is a crafty illusionist... At the risk of veering into the cliche, it seems like only yesterday that Zach played his first show with Widetrack... 

At the young age of 12, he…

The Widetrack Chronicles 80: Update

It's been a while since we sent out an email update, but rest assured we've been keeping busy as ever... 

In case you missed it before, we released a "new-old" E.P.  called Lineage... It's…

The Widetrack Chronicles 76: Activism of Consciousness

2020’s been a game-changer year thus far... Many plans come to naught, much uncertainty taken root... The good, the bad, the ugly... 

Looking at the world today, it's hard to remain positive about…

The Widetrack Chronicles 73: The Process

With the completion of each new album cycle, there are a wealth of important lessons learned that we apply to the making of the next one... 

To us, creating music is a continuous process…

The Widetrack Chronicles 68: What is "Alterna-Prog"?

Wihile preparing for the release of our new album, we’re now at the stage of figuring out how to promote it...

This phase is always the most challenging, as expertise…

The Widetrack Chronicles 67: Official Video for Tribal

We are most pleased to present to you the first official video from our forthcoming new album, The Unwakening...

Tribal

The clip was filmed and directed…

The Widetrack Chronicles 65: Tribute to Neil Peart (by Ron Tippin)

Neil Peart passed away on January 7, 2020 at the age of 67... He is survived by his second wife and his 10 year old daughter...  

For most of…

The Widetrack Chronicles 66: The New Album: Post-Creation/Pre-Release Thoughts  

The final step before sending a completed album to the digital distributor is the mastering process, which is, basically, getting all the songs the same volume, EQ, etc. so they all…

The Widetrack Chronicles 64: The Fourth Album (full details and artwork)
 

It pleases us greatly to announce the official release details of our fourth album... 
 

Widetrack

The Unwakening

Zach Tippin: bass and guitar  
Ron Tippin:…

The Widetrack Chronicles 63: Oblivion

At last we come to the final track of our 2019 monthly songs... 

Oblivion 

We’ve been excited about this one ever since its humble origins in late 2018… A ton of hard work went into…

The Widetrack Chronicles 62: Cursed

Our 2019 monthly song for November is called Cursed and will be track 11 on the forthcoming fourth Widetrack album (title TBA)... (One more to go... ?) 

This song came together…

The Widetrack Chronicles 59: Terra
 

For an overview of the entire album storyline, click here: 

https://widetrackband.com/home/blog/the-widetrack-chronicles-56-the-concept-of-the-new-album-revealed

"The usage of 'Terra' as a name for the planet Earth is particularly common among English-language science fiction writers. 'Terra' had been the official…

The Widetrack Chronicles 58: The Rift

For an overview of the entire album storyline, click here:  
https://widetrackband.com/home/blog/the-widetrack-chronicles-56-the-concept-of-the-new-album-revealed

All too often, we find ourselves breaking off from friends and family, telling ourselves “I don’t need that person in my life” in…

The Widetrack Chronicles 51: Tribal

For an overview of the entire album storyline, click here: 
https://widetrackband.com/home/blog/the-widetrack-chronicles-56-the-concept-of-the-new-album-revealed​​​​​​​

Tribal was one of the first songs Zach and I wrote together... It came together rather quickly... Basically, I sat down at the drums,…

Here it is... The premier of our second new monthly song of 2019! 

For an overview of the entire album storyline, click here: 
https://widetrackband.com/home/blog/the-widetrack-chronicles-56-the-concept-of-the-new-album-revealed​​​​​​​

~Story behind the song~

A few years back, I had a friend who was a pretty…

The Widetrack Chronicles 47: New song announcement and backstory

It is not even halfway through January, and I can already tell that 2019 is going to be a monumental year for the band... 

As stated in a previous…

The Widetrack Chronicles 46:
Looking back ay 2018 and forward to 2019

What a fantastic year it's been... Some highly significant milestones and goals achieved...

We began 2018 with the mixing of our third album, Widetrack III…

It's been a busy couple of months!

As previously stated, our new album, Widetrack III is finished and available for pre-order!

The album will…