Work On The New Album

It seems like the new album, our 9th, little sweetheart, is coming forward.

I’d begun just recording the very first few ideas on voice memo when Sylvia and I were on our trip along Route One in May. I’d taken along that First Act guitar I’d had at your apartment (that now resides in your closet at your folks house, at the ready when we visit) along with a little 9 Volt mini-amp and a cheap echo/delay pedal I bought to keep out there. In the evenings when we stopped for the night, I’d set it all up in our hotel room and play for a while. The first 3 or 4 songs seemed to come that way and their working titles are all places where we recorded them - Santa Barbara, San Simeon, Mission Street.

In the last weeks I’ve worked up a set list of about 16 songs that I play through every day and lyrics have come forward for some of them too. I’m excited to share them with you every day - I know you are both present as I play them and helping me to find things even as I lay asleep. It’s the best thing that I do with my time, little sweetheart and it brings me ever so close to you, which is all I want in the whole wide world.

I love you so very much. Forever!