And, here’s the new one for this week. Written completely last night in a rush to beat the 12-oh-clock dong dong dong. I really didn’t know how it turned out. Barely listened to it.

When I heard it again this morning, though, I thought…”Not bad.”

A good enough effort, I think. It sounds a little like a song I woulda written a few months back, but that’s okay. I feel I’m at some sort of crossroads right now. Just hanging around til the deal goes down. Or hangin on, maybe.

Anyway, the cool winter air is shiftin in and my bones is beginning to feel that deep down to the core.

Last year I had an intense change in my song writing around this time, but it didn’t totally manifest, I think, until about maybe this past May or June. So I guess I got time to work into whatever I’m working into. Might come quick, might come slow. Who knows.

I do know, though, that you HAVE to come to the big record release show this Sunday, 11/20 at the Whistler. It’s gonna be HOT HOT HOT. Playing as part of Lawrence Peters’ Country Throw-down, but also using the night to start selling the new EP out now. You’ll be able to get your very own copy (for only 5 bucks!!!) with a one-of-a-kind Polaroid picture as cover art! Plus, if you want, you can take your own Polaroid (for a minimal charge) for very personal cover art. Fantastic!

See you there.

Sometimes a song just materializes in front of you. A complete idea. All the words. All the images. The way it should sound.

I’m not sure this new one was like that, but maybe it was.

I had an idea for something like this song on Tuesday and then got a Million Dollars worth of help to flesh it out. So, by the time I sat down late last night to write it, I really didn’t have to do much. The second I started the whole song appeared.

It’s a fairly straight forward tune, I think. The story’s all there. The notes are all sung and played.

So that’s that for today.

Remember, this Sunday I’m playing a show at Beat Kitchen. Come on out. It’s a quick set and I’ll be doing mostly all new tunes. Maybe even this one.

Now, don’t get mad. I may have already written this song. I don’t mean to say that it’s an old one cause I wrote all the words last night, put them to some music, and recorded it, but I have this feeling that I already wrote one with the exact same chorus. Maybe even the same title.

I don’t remember, though. Do you?

Anyway. I got the idea for this one late last night. After I wrote the first verse (about rockets) it was pretty easy to see where to pull the other verses from. It’s kind of another song about opposites, I think. But not exactly. More like being unable to find something, or get something right when you want or need it most. But knowing that if it’s true enough, it’ll turn out for you in the end.

Or maybe that’s not it at all. I like it either way.

So, here’s the other version that I recorded, the first verison, of the new song that I posted for this week. I guess it’s strange, then, to call it “version 2,” but who’s keeping tabs anyway.

You can see, if you compare this to the one I released Monday (listen here), that this is slower. Well, not, necessarily the tempo. But something about it is slower. Or something. Get it?

It’s a lot more in line with other stuff I’ve recorded this year. The version from Monday was more of a stretch, both for me to sing and keep together. You can hear it in my voice. But I think that’s where I’m headed. I think I started heading in a new direction last year at about this time. A new sound.

I guess it’s something in the changing weather. Something bubbling in my blood.

But, either way you get two version of this song this week. That’s a special treat. Just in time for Halloween. Hope what you got to change into is good.