so we’re headed into the second half of the recording process. 

leads were laid down on sunday by the great jimmy reid, slamming some ridiculous one take wonders on these rockin’ songs of mine.  needless to say, i am happy as a pig in shit. 

i’m leaving for vacation next week.  going to unwind, relax, and have my zen time to myself for 7 days before coming back and starting up on my guitars and vocals.  we’ve probably got about a weeks worth of stuff to do, and i’m hoping (and aiming) to be done everything to be able to be mixed by the end of the month. 

i had this idea last night after writing an entry in my music = life journal (where i’m taking full albums that inspire me and relating them to moments in my life, and it’s pretty brilliant.  may release it one day anonymously of course).  i sat down with the songs from the album and went through them one by one.  i’ve created song blogs for each individual one.  what they mean to me, or you, why i wrote them, when i wrote them.  the explanations give you an idea of what the record means to me.  with a title like “you know what you did” i’m sure it wouldn’t be tough to work it out on your own.  but the beauty of it is that i’ve always written from personal experience, and i take pride in that.  i find no meaning in music that hasn’t happened to you.  or someone else. 

so once the songs are mixed and ready, i’ll be previewing the blogs.  until then it makes no sense really to post them, you have to hear it to really feel what it means. 

we’re almost done guys.  almost there.  i sincerely cannot wait to experience it with you.  it’s been a long time coming.  in the meantime, if you didn’t see the acoustic session for “make it so”, one of the songs, here it is. 

j. xo