Connected with a new potential background singer living in Australia who’s got a wonderful high-register voice.  I’m hoping he’ll become our Kelly Groucutt; he’s even expressed an interest in taking some lead sections of tracks, much in the way Kelly…

 In the early stages of this one… just got the initial strings demo back from Steve, which I’ll post in the Express Lane section momentarily.  This is an upbeat song with a straightforward/basic chord structure that’s going to rely on…

Had an interesting situation pop up this weekend with respect to the initial guitar parts for “A Different Kind of Weather”.  For a little background as to how these songs are built… I initially record demo parts for all of…

Been focused the last few days on redesigning and developing a few new merch items.  Just got the first sample of a line of bathing suits that I’ll be introducing for the summer looks pretty cool!

Also starting to go…

There are a great many relatively mundane aspects that go into managing a recording project on a daily basis.  For example... there are the mechanical aspects of preparing stems and lead sheets for the musicians, importing and exporting wave files…

Been out of pocket in terms of updates for awhile, but have made progress on quite a few tracks.  Will post the current in-process versions in the “Express Lane” section shortly. 

At the moment, working in earnest with Steve on…

Had a great teleconference this past week with Steve Turner (our illustrious UK-based string arranger), who is also going to be adding keyboard tracks for this next album.  Anyone who knows me is aware that I am an unabashed fan…

 Getting ready for a flight to Arizona; wanted to take a few minutes to provide a quick update.  We’re about to start moving forward with recording this album in earnest.  I started with the track “If You Won’t Stay” which…

I’ve been reacclimating to daily like after getting back late Friday from a cruise in the Mediterranean.  I fortunately found some time and inspiration to finish re-writing the lyrics to one last song for the upcoming album, which needed a…

We received a nice article from an independent press outlet regarding "Farewell Mr. Lynne" this week:

https://www.musiccrowns.org/new-music/interstate-island-drops-heartfelt-tribute-to-elo-with-farewell-mr-lynne/ 

Was very nice to read!

 Now that we’ve got Steve Turner’s string arrangement completed for “If You Won’t Stay”, it’s time to begin working out the rest of the lineup.

I haven’t yet decided which of the musicians who performed on “Brave New World” and…

After a few revisions, we’ve got the string arrangement completed for “If You Won’t Stay”.  It remains to be determined whether or not we’ll have an actual orchestra perform the arrangement (as well as the arrangements for the rest of…

Haven’t posted here in awhile, but I’m going to do so on a much more regular basis going forward, considering blog content is now going to be an offering for Inner Circle subscribers. 

Huh?

Yeah, I know.  Part of the…

 The Islanders have a .650 points percentage ten games into the season, which looks decent on paper – but they are not playing well. Still not convinced Lane Lambert is the right coach for this team.

Returned a week ago…

The whole social media concept is very new to me - but the reality in today's age is if you want to build a career for yourself as an artist, you've got to do a lot more than just record…

 2-3 is a minefield.  With position and KhTh on a JT7K7 rainbow board, I went for what I considered a reasonable value bet of $60 into a $175 pot (particularly given his river check), and got checkraised all-in for effectively…

It's come up in a few recent conversations how it's pretty much impossible to hear your own song for the first time, since by the time you've finished writing it, recorded the demo, tweaked it, and gone through the formal…