4th Down & 20

Had a new song emerge fast and furious over the last few days. My favorite lines on the album so far are:

souvenirs of all our /
treacherous past glories

souvenirs of all these /
boring stories

This is a mid-life angst album, after all.

My kids wander down to my studio, mostly out of boredom but a little curious about what I do for hours down there. I’ve been trying to teach them about the process of making something. Show them how tracks are organized, how I’ll do several takes of something to get it right, how it comes together, how creating anything is not a quick process. I hope they are learning from it. I hope they find something creative they like to do. Something to feed their soul.

My 10 year old daughter asked me: Why are you doing this daddy, no one is going to BUY your album. Because it’s fun to make things, I told her. As a souvenir. And that’s mostly the damn truth, kid.