Well, I started on March 25 and nearly a year later the CD is in the mastering process. I plan on a January 2011 release.
BLUE SKY SLIDING is my first release since Blind Dog Barking 18 years ago. A lot of life has passed in that time. T-Bone Burnett stated in an interview that one can write songs about the Light or write songs about what one sees in the Light. This project will feature both.
Here is the list of songs I plan to be on the CD:
Cross the River (for childhood friend Tim Hunt)
A Distant Friend (for George Harrison)
Tomorrow on Her Mind (featuring The Silverados)
Elvis on a Greyhound
I Remember the Night (8:46 P.M. on 9/11)
When You’re Not Here
This Love I Have for You
Watch the Lions Play (Sunday Morning, Lyon, 177 A.D.)
A Mighty Fortress (instrumental arrangement)
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Gotta Serve Somebody** (the one by Bob Dylan)
Every Good Gift (A song I used do do with the band in Portland)
Anyone But Jesus
Look at All the Children
Keep Your Eyes on the Sky
Daffodils at the Resurrection (guitar instrumental)
Ode to the Penguin Café (piano & string quartet)
The Joker Isn’t Laughing (I wrote it when I was 19.)
The best part about an independent project is no one tells you what to put on it. The worst part about an independent project... finally saying it's done!
