3-12-20: news! You can pre-save “When I Stop Barking” here >>
Sadly, I had to cancel my flight to NM. I was finally getting warmed up with my set list. Bummer. Taking my acoustic to work, strumming & humming out a tune between phone calls. My fingers were getting fluid ’round that neck. Stronger, too. Not easy to bend a Yamaha steel string. I’m generally a pretty mellow person, especially when it comes to health scares. Now is different. If the empty toilet paper shelf in the supermarket didn’t get me, than the suspension of all flights to & from Europe did.
I guess with all events getting cancelled, I will be finishing (*) once and for all. I announced my intention to make an album about a year ago, and I’m not disappointed in the time it’s taken, considering not just my musical situation but my emotional state. This year I lost my uncle, my father, my cat and my dog. Musically, I don’t have a band, so I had to arrange & compose all the parts. Looking back over this past year, I realize I never previously used a DAW software to do this sort of work. Now in the final stages, I have to vocalize that I’m proud of myself. I never ever ever thought I would finish. And long after it’s done, being proud of myself will really be all I’ve got. If my life so far as a songwriter predicts, few people will ever hear it anyway.
Sadly, I may have to finish the post production myself. I’ve been overlooked for several grants. This exacerbated by an uncertain financial near-future due to the crashing economy. I’ll just have to eke it out. It’s against the advice of a prominent producer who was so gracious up my request to offer me advice. No, not the nobody who told me I can’t sing. “If you spend money on anything, spend it on mixing”. Best advice. I found the best producer to do this. Oh well. Nobody is going to hear this shit anyway. Really. Anyone who knows me knows I am a generally positive person. It’s not an outlook. It’s probability. Math. Nobody is going to hear my music. The GOOD news, if there is any, is on the wave that’s coming after this one crashes. I have a whole other album of songs trying to push its lil’ head through all this tedious work, and I just can’t suppress it anymore. And I may soon have my grandmother’s grand piano in my home. So maybe some piano songs? It’s looking like the next one come fast and be sparse and folky. Can’t wait….