The girls are sleeping.
There are two lists in front of me.
One is the set list for the July 19th Show. (preview -- it's kickin')
The other is the song progress list for the new record.
3 songs in the can. 4 fully written and demoed. 3 with demos at various levels of completion (one is perhaps over-written, with stuff to be cut, but otherwise is fine; another is more of an idea than a song). There are also a few songs drifting around that might sneak onto the record.
The set list for the show is done. Song distribution by album:
Songs for My Seaweed Girl (current record): 3
Great Lakes: 1
How it Feels to be a Rock and Roll Dad: 1
Probable New Album: 2
Lucky 13 (final Jason Middaugh record): 4
Alright, no one but me would notice or give a shit, but 4 of the tunes are from a record that I recorded over 6 years ago. They were written and recorded a whole Peja ago. A medium length marriage ago. And, it's not lost on me, they were written while I was living like a monk/hermit in a farm house near Guelph and pretending to care about an English degree.
Those are tunes I want to play live. The ones that rock the most the easiest.
What does it mean to want to write mellow records while performing rock songs from a previous lifetime?
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