My 9 Album's Arrival

As I continue my musical travels, I follow the advice of Jeff Beck who famously said, "I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I'm not breaking the rules at least 10 times during a song, then I'm not doing my job properly." In my songwriting, I strive to not make it predictable, with surprise treasures in each song. I also like to break the rules on the role of instruments, especially on bass, my favorite instrument. I continue to be amazed by the warm reception college and Internet radio continues to give me, as in these few days since it's been released it's already been spun several times. Standouts include WHFR FM, Deep Nuggets Radio and Woody Radio.

It's especially meaningful to me to receive college radio airplay, as that is where I started my radio career, at KUNM Albuquerque during my senior year of high school. I listened to every album they had in their vast collection by dropping the needle in the middle of every track, and in a few seconds decided if I liked it or not. This further formed my taste in music and where I learned how to expand my horizons on writing songs. They had thousands of records! I truly thought by creating the perfect playlist, it could change the world for the better. So far the standout track is "Arrival". "Arrival" was the last song I put together. I started with a drum track I put down. I had some guitar parts Johnny Echols laid down for Shadow Verse that I just couldn't use as they didn't match the key for the song. So I cobbled them together, looped some, chopped them up, rearranged them all to fit the drum track. This took weeks to do, but it was worthwhile. Then I added my bass track to match the energy. I was also mad at Spotify, there's so many reasons ha ha! On my last album they flagged my track, "Take Me to Who I've Never Been Before" as dirty. It's a song about self-improvement! I always write songs to make the world a better place and would never think of doing that. But now I was mad, I'll show them dirty! I wrote a song delibrately about ...um... sex. Recalling "When Harry Met Sally" I embedded such sounds under the guitar parts. This wasn't the first time though I made those sounds. At a low point in my radio career, again just after "When Harry Met Sally" came out I was the music director at a classic rock station. I was rather shy and repressed, shall we say. The production director wanted to use "When Harry Met Sally" sounds underneath a commercial for a client who requested it. After running through every female in the building he reluctantly asked "the shy one"... me. Apparently, nobody ever told him to watch out for those shy ones. The client loved it, yes that's exactly what I want!!! Several stations who aired said spot, almost lost their FCC licenses. People would call into the radio stations when this aired and complained it was way too dirty. I should have learned my lesson about this. Of course I didn't and Spotify didn't flag it. Only Discmakers EQ'd it down on the CD version. So here we are ha ha... Arrival plays on!