Releasing Music

10 years ago when we got back from CO, we had just finished a recording of the 14 songs I had written over a 14 year period. Some of the melodies of songs had been in the back of my mind for years before I had finally finished them. Anyway, I wasn't happy with the percussion. I wanted to find a drummer and add drums to pretty much every song I had recorded. We looked for drummers. Friends who were drummers would promise me that they would play on the recording, but then just not return messages. I borrowed some drums and learned a couple of songs... which sounded pretty good live, but not for these recordings. The best drum sound we got was when Braedon decided to try his hand at keyboard drums. But, nothing sounded quite right. For some reason it took me 10 years to just accept them the way they were. Now that I've been releasing them, I'm finally able to start thinking about the "newer" songs that I've been writing. That and I want to augment 2 of the last 14 before they are released.

Oddly, I started writing the newer songs a year before we had moved to CO. So, I've been working on most of this next album over a 14 year period also. And, some of the songs I'm wanting to put on the album were written as early as 1998. So, they're a compilation of 24 years of writing. Regardless, I'm ready to finish the songs I have been working on and record the songs I've been sitting on. Finally. Here's to more short spurts of recording.