UPDATE! 12-29-2018

I haven’t written much on social media this year. This summer I decided to put all of my writing-brain-muscles into new songs during my (sparse) windows of free time. There has also been a long string of disturbing news stories about every social network I participate in causing me to second guess myself before posting.

“Seems like all these companies are garbage huh? Well, I better get back to thinking about songs.”

Album writing is coming pretty slow, but thats ok. I get to think about singing and holding a guitar more than I get to sing and hold a guitar. I am channeling my thoughts and feelings of this reality into songs about patience and the timelessness of music.

I’m writing this post now (and fighting the guilt of not working on songs) because last week it occurred to me that for the past two albums, big creative ideas of mine were simultaneously thought of by TV shows and put out into the world before I could finish, record and release my songs. So for the new year I’m announcing the title and concept of the forthcoming album so that I can point back to this post if, and when, the same idea is put out into the world by someone else. I will then raise my hand and yell to no one: “I am not a copycat!”

So here it is, as of now, LP7 is a semi-sequel-short-story-album about a small town who celebrates the virtue of patience on the same day every year: Waitsgiving. This is one of the notebooks I’m using to write it in. As of today I have four finished songs, a couple scrapped songs, a few more half finished songs, several charts, graphs, outlines and one photo for the back cover. It’s going to be a while before this is finished and I am internally giggling to myself for making this thematically appropriate premature announcement. Thank you for your patience. Happy 2019. -Eric

