The Making of My Yet to Be Titled New Album

Posted by admin on December 10th, 2010 | 210 Comments »

Is almost finished.  It’s taken 6 months almost now.  I’ve gotten so used to working on it, scrutinizing over it that a part of me is freaked that its going to be finished so soon.  That’s when the real work starts.

Because it’s not finished I’m not going to talk too much about it except to say that this is the first REAL record I have ever made.  This is the first time I feel like I have something that truly represents all the difference sides that I want to express…all the different ways I want to be a vessel for that which is greater than I am.  Stories about love, anger, hope and romping through the forest looking for fish in lyrical content, and polished, elegant and pocket heavy grooves rhythmically.  We trimmed a lot of fat, Alex made some slamming beats and we opted for a more contemporary sound…not because I want to roll with the trends but simply because I like it that way.

I’m wondering whether people who have liked my music from day will like it or not.  Thus far in terms of the recordings I have put out, the sound has been way more in the “roots, blues and jam” vein and this new record is not really any of those things.  Except some blues.  Ain’t never gonna give that up.

I will talk more in detail about it next week.  Tonight is my final tracking session.  Guitar solo time.  Whoo hoo!

A New Direction…

Posted by admin on December 1st, 2010 | 114 Comments »

I haven’t posted a blog post for over 3 months.  I think I bit off a bit more than I could chew in terms of creating a real time story and having each post in essence, perpetuate the story forward.  I am not ditching the idea all together but I am going to take a break from it, and let this blog evolve in a different way…a way which I don’t really know yet.  Right now it will be me posting at least once a week and talking about whatever really comes to my mind.  If the real-time story with chapters etc inspires me again then I will dive back into it but for now, I like the idea of just writing freely with no agenda.

Two things on my mind right now.  The first being what might have inspired me to start writing again and to take a break from the pressure of creating a “real time story,” which is pretty much that I can’t force things in life.  I do believe I can manifest things to happen and that I am a lot of control over where my life goes, but it has to happen in it’s own magical way and not by me trying to force it to look the way I think it should or whatever.  Music is a perfect example of this.  Usually when magic happens it’s because I’m letting it flow and have given up the need to drive the ship so to speak.  God or whatever you want to call “that which is greater than you” has room then to come in and work the real deal magic.  I felt a little like this with my “real time story.”  I got inspired by the idea and thought it was a great idea and then thought of how awesome it would be when it was finished so to speak, being inspirational and all and then the process of doing it was very different than the idea that I had in my head.

The other thing on my mind is that I fucking love the holidays.  And christmas music.