Work on the new songs for the new record continues. We are set to track bass, drums, and acoustic guitar on Dec. 12th. I have still been writing some of the songs and was finally able, TODAY, to finish the one that had the most holes in it. Yay! I need to rewrite a bridge on one other song. But that one has already been tracked so we can finish that song last, if need be. The pressure has been to get demos made for the drummer and bass player so they can learn the songs we're going to track. I have a little 5 song gig at Family Wash, my favorite place in town to play, on Dec. 2nd. We're going to use that gig for a little practice on some of the new songs. Hopefully, it won't SOUND like practice, to those who come out to the Wash! There's also the matter of Christmas, about which I have had to be militant this year. I wanted the stress of shopping and spending to be long over by the time I'm needing to fully focus on my studio date. So, most Christmas shopping is done and even wrapped...isn't that insane??? Oh, and as far as the issue of too many songs (the subject of my last blog), I have decided to put no covers on this record -- that would be my version of other people's songs. I'm going with 11 originals, 8 I wrote by myself and 3 I wrote with my left hand man, Tom Spaulding. At times, I'm excited. At times, I'm panicked. But, as I said on my MySpace blog, its time to put another bullet in the gun and take another shot at this music bid'ness thang. Ready, aim, fire!