Update and Song Series

Quick updates and then the beginning of a series on the individual songs of the album.

The print copy is on the way. It is a double disc set, "The Day After Labor Day" is the album, "The Day Before Labor Day " is a disc containing demos of all the songs except for "I Don't Wear My Seatbelt Either," and "On The Eve Of The Zombie Apocalypse." Answers to questions about those songs not having demos will be answered in their individual profiles. I have the jackets in hand, they will be assembled and numbered individually on demand. The discs themselves are being produced by an outside company and will be arriving about the time that the album comes out. Orders will be processed as quickly as possible. The official track listing is as follows:

1.) I Don't Wear My Seatbelt Either
2.) Cutlass
3.) The Co. Ink
4.) Try So Hard
5.) Knights Of Livonia
6.) On The Eve Of The Zombie Apocalypse
7.) Lazy Sunday
8.) 4:10 (Sure)
9.) Restocking Fee

I am still trying to devise the best way to set up the downloading. If anyone has experience with web design and file distribution let me know. Help would certainly warrant beer.

If you have not heard it, the album cut of "Try So Hard" is currently on the MySpace

For the next nine days, which happen to lead up to the release of the album, I will be giving, in album order, info on one song per day.

I DON'T WEAR MY SEATBELT EITHER does have a lost demo somewhere. If a copy actually exists I don't know. I would love to get my hands on it, but I'm not sure if anyone that has a copy would remember it. I suppose the story starts quite a while ago. I went to go see the band Mofro with my friend Jonny. The band has adequately named their genre 'Back Porch Soul." After seeing their amazing lap steel player, I mentioned to my father in passing that I was interested in procuring a similar instrument. Lo and behold next Christmas I received such an instrument as a gift from my father. The music for IDWMSE was written a few hours later. This song floated around for a good while without any lyrics. Eventually I ended up jamming with some guys known as Russian Spy Orchestration, which was an early grouping of what is now the band Prussia. In this band I played a drums and lap steel. We did record a demo, but as I said, I have no clue where it is. I would love to hear it again, espescially with the lyrics that Ryan came up with for it, which I don't remember at all but I am sure they were much better than mine.

Then one night about a month ago on a warm, wet night, on a forty minute drive home on semi back roads coming home from a friends house, I blew through a yellow light. A while back someone taught me that when you go through a yellow light that you kiss your hand and touch the ceiling of the vehicle you are in. Some people think this is for good luck, or good sex, but this person, and subsequently I, believe that a yellow light is the traffic light gods winking at you, letting one know that at any time they could send someone through that intersection and take your life from you. A kiss is just your acknowledgment back to them that you are humble to their mighty power. Going through this particular yellow light inspired the lyrics for this song.

Blowing past a yellow light is just like God is winking right at you
'Cause next time you go past one you don't quite know if you will make it through.
Drivin' with me you know that you take your life in your own hands
'Cause ridin' with me you know you won't take me as your man.
But I'm gonna keep on drivin' straight, gonna blow every red light that I can.