After an epically intense 2014 full of hairpin turns, cliff edges, and close calls, I'm easing into 2015 with a certain sense of awareness altogether new. It seems that the old maxim that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is indeed -- at least at times -- true.
I'm blogging before you can even see the web site, but Monica did an incredible job and you'll read this soon enough. Joel finished the color editing on my first video, "So Good Then", and as eager as I am to share it with the world, we have several busy weeks of promo and prep before it goes up on YouTube.
Finally, as incredible as the new record ALREADY sounds via Joel's co-writing and production, we will be entering FullerSound in the coming week or two to have the legendary Mike Fuller master the album. Mike's credits include the biggest names in the music business; he was the mastering engineer at Miami's Criteria Studios when the biggest names in rock and pop flooded in to record there. Mike mastered my Sony Discos release, OceanO, and he blew my mind when he took Joel's seemingly perfect final mixes and made them exponentially better, using that ephemeral mix of technology, wizardry, potions, and intuition possessed by perhaps a handful of mastering engineers worldwide. It's been many years, Joel's packing an armful of Grammy Awards, and his final mixes on "The Sins of Your Wonderful Father" are pretty perfect to my ear. Let's see what Mike the sorcerer unveils....