I finished tracking last Friday. It's seriously nuts how quickly this project came together.
I met Cason, via phone call, mid January and I was on my way to Nashville 2 weeks later. 5 days after that we were 90% done with the record. And 2 weeks after that it was complete.
Right now it's at Shane Wilsons studio undergoing mixing and in a couple weeks we'll send it to get mastered. All that to say everything is running exactly on time and come mid June 'American Soil' will be stacked 4 boxes high in my closet. (Hopefully on it's way soon after to cd players and ipods across the country)
I'm thrilled at how everything sounds. This project is so colorful and so bold, when I listen to it, I forget that it's my album. I've never seen these songs be so confident. It's like all this time I've been playing to a crowd of 10,000 without a microphone or amp and suddenly someone plugged me in and hit the switch.
Last night I was up till 6 am listening to all the records I've put out; trying hard to remember what all was going on when each of those songs was written and recorded. Doing so was hard but very humbling. The past 8 years have been an incredible ride and I feel like they all have been leading up to this point; this record.
What I mean to say is that I've grown up.
I jump around so much I forget to take a minute to see where I've been and it's nice to know, now that I've taken a minute, that I've moved a bit from where I remember being last.
If I had attempted to record this album 2 years ago, when I originally wanted to, it would've been a waste of a lot of money and a lot of peoples time. The songs weren't quality, the writing was amateur, my voice was inexperienced, the list goes on and on with the point being that the album would have been pitiful.
Completely.
It's nice to know that I'm not only finishing a great project but that it was done in the greatest space and time possible.
I really can't wait to show you.
On another note, 'Birmingham' is done with the press and will be at my place next week. At that same moment my website will be finished and all will be able to purchase a physical copy of the EP. It's not the biggest news but I'm excited.
Also, I'm about to launch a new house tour for April. If you're interested let me know asap and we'll book one.
As always thanks for reading. More soon.
Cheers,
David
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