Last month after over a year and some change of pulling together spare moments of alone time (mostly while driving) I finally completed writing the next Fishboy album: Waitsgiving. Ten character songs for the patient and impatient. I’ve been semi-quiet because not much can be said about writing narratives until they are done. It also felt like using that part of the brain on a web post was unfair to the songs that needed finishing.

But its done now! Taking (what felt like) an abnormally long time to write music does have it’s draw backs. Band members are all in different life places, the internet is getting uglier by the day, I feel like I need to be more careful with the words I put out into the universe. There’s an odd low point in the creative cycle when the last project is far behind you but your next is still far off. You start wondering if you can reach the same peaks, and if those peaks were even as high as you remembered them. There are always a few people that send me nice messages to remind me to keep going, so heres my nice message to you: keep going!

I crossed the gap and finished this batch of songs that is really good. I’m really proud of it and hope to pull together some recordings soon so that we can share it with you.

I’m playing all the songs on Sept 20th at J&J’s in Denton with a really odd line up of folks (more on this soon.)

This picture is of me watching a horse named Vegas while his stuntman went inside to change into a costume. Vegas had just shot an episode of Fear the Walking Dead where he took two weeks to get comfortable with six zombies pulling him down to the ground. Yet here he is, a little put off by my proud energy. Talk to you soon, -Eric