The last time I went home was for a few days before I left to tour the country mixing for John Mark McMillan. I was itching to go back and rearranged my schedule to make it happen. The week before I left a good friend of mine called to inform me another close friend has Colon Cancer. My buddy is my age and has Colon Cancer. Colon Cancer! You’re not supposed to get Colon Cancer ‘til after retirement right?! It knocked the wind of me.
After going home then being out on tour for a few weeks my friend called again to ask a favour. My favourite band of all time, Shangrala (who coincidentally broke up around the same time I last visited home) is getting back together for one last show. They’re putting on a benefit show for my friend with the Colon Cancer and they’re selling an Ep at the show with all the proceeds going to help him with medical bills. Shangrala will be recording a few songs they’ve yet to release and they are asking other artists to cover Shang songs they’ve already released. They want me to Master it. It’s going to be amazing.
After I agreed to Master the project for them my friend asked me to cover one of their songs. I haven’t done my own music in years. I am honoured he would ask me to be a part but I am also pretty damn nervous. Do I still have the goods? Did I even have the goods at one point? egh . . .
I began listening to trax I had done a year or so ago seeing if there is anything I could just put Shang lyrics and melodies over. I found one which would work but it felt a lil cheap to me. I want to do this right. One long day in the van John Mark brought his acoustic inside so he could work on some stuff. I was sitting between his case and him. When he was done and Jims was done playin around he handed the acoustic to me to put back in the case so I took and and began searching for something. I think I found it. I will covering Shangrala’s song “Time.” I turned it minor and it’s real dark. It’s real ‘me’ I guess. The few people I’ve let hear the demo for it tell me it’s awesome so that’s cool. I’m kinda scared to see what happens . . .
Monday I begin tracking my cover at Bright City Studios. I have some of my favourite musicians coming in to lend hands. Lee Worley will be drivin the camper on drums, James Duke will be adding some of his guitar wizardry, and Shae Wooten will be puttin out the vibe the whole two days in here while greasing things up with French Horn, Clarinet, and whatever else . . .
I’ll be posting things here and there (twitter.facebook.wherevers.) throughout the process if you feel like following along as I try to figure this out. The show will be August 20th at Jack Rabbit’s in Jacksonville, Fl. As far as I know the Ep will only be available at the show so you should go. Help my friend beat this Cancer Crap . . .
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