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Current Album: Paradise Found

2009 was a year with a lot of my time spent on the road. As a result the songs in Paradise Found are mostly themed around travelling, searching for something you may already have right in front of you and of course some love songs too. After all, all that running around would be pointless if there wasn’t a warm loving home waiting for you at the end of the trip.

Everything here was recorded at home using Acid Pro from Sony, Pro Fire from M-audio, Preamps and converters from Black Lion Audio

Instruments: Les Paul standard, Martin 000-15 Acoustic Guitar, Fender Acoustic Resonator and Axiom MIDI Controller by M-Audio.

Soft Synths: Native instruments, Garritan and Drum Samples by Toontrack’s EZ Drummer.

Mics: Various from Shure.

I’d like to thank and recognize Neospeech.com for their wonderful online software tool for creating computer style voices for the GPS effects in GPS (Turn left) and Airport.

Thanks also to John Scrip at Massive Mastering for helping to turn this into an album.

And of course thanks to my family for putting up with all the nonsense that goes into recording this stuff.

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Track 1: GPS (Turn Left)

I got the inspiration for this driving around in the wilds of Oklahoma trying to find something or other. The GPS in the rental car had been turned to some strange mode by the last user and took me all over the place even down some dirt roads and dead ends. So it sort of turned into a love song based around I don’t care what I’ve got to do, I’m going to find a way, going to get to you

Track 2: Paradise Found

Paradise Found is a flat out love song. We spend so much time running around looking for bigger, brighter things when often all we ever want or need is right in front of us. But we continue to search for a paradise we have already found. It started out as just acoustic guitar (with slaps on the sound board for rhythm) but after I found some really dry drum sounds blossomed into a larger arrangement

Track 3: Airport

I spent a lot of time at airports in the last 12 months. Travel seems to lose a lot of its glamour and become routine pretty quickly, for me at least. This song really came together of a series of trips where connections didn’t work out well and I was left sitting around with not much to do except watch the snippets of other peoples lives going on around me

Track 4: Heal Me

Heal me was a song I had knocking around for quite a long time as an acoustic only song but I could never seem to get it to sound the way I wanted when I tried to record it. In the end the mix of live and electronica did it with some slide guitar to glue it all together did the trick. I thank my wife for the inspiration to write this one and keep going with it until I got it right.

Track 5: That's Alright

This song is kind of an internal conversation in my head. Thinking about the all the bad stuff we see but then realizing that in the end it’s OK but there’s plenty of good stuff that far out weighs it. I had a lot of fun with the guitar sounds in particular on this one