Soooo... how are you? How's your year starting off? Good, I hope... As usual, it's been awhile since you've heard from me, and I'd LIKE to say it's for some brilliant, larger-than-life reason... maybe that, unbeknownst to me, a wealthy aunt decided I'm her favorite and gifted me a small island off the coast of Dubai... or maybe a group of friends took it upon themselves to rally support and get me elected US Ambassador to Papua New Guinea... buuuuut... unfortunately, that isn't the case. Just life. Same as I'm sure it is with you, life seems to go by in a blur, and I woke up today thinking 'wait... it can't POSSIBLY be February already...?' But, oh yes. Yes, it can. Which means, six weeks have passed, and I'm already behind on my big plans for the new year. Awesome. :)
Anyway, I digress. The point of this message isn't to bemoan the passing of time but rather to acknowledge that I've finally figured out what my problem is. (no comments, please... I'm making a point here. :) Ok, so, here it is... I'm always waiting for the IDEAL time. The ideal time to post a blog... the ideal time to release an album... the ideal time to start on my taxes... (mmmm... I'll take 'never' for $500 please, Alex. :) Seriously, I live in a world of romantic ideals, and whereas that idealistic nature drives a lot of my music... it's a bad way to do business. And, an even worse way to keep in touch with you. So, rather than giving you the usual 'here's when I'll be releasing X' (and quite possibly letting you down on that), let's just say that moving forward... I'm gonna surprise you. New music. Video blogs. Shorter newsletters... (again... no comments, please. :) As long as you're ok with more rough edges, I'll fight my perfectionist nature and put things out more often. Deal?
Ok, so, before I go, I did want to give you a quick update on a couple of things. First, as to the monthly releases... I'm really sorry for stopping them so abruptly. The reason was, quite simply, that you kept asking for the full album. :) Seriously, I got a flood of emails saying 'Love the clip of the new song! Can't wait until the album comes out so I can buy it!' For all the time and effort that went into releasing each song individually, I'm back to thinking a full album just makes more sense. Not surprisingly, I've always favored that approach, but given the way most people buy music these days (song by song), I figured you'd prefer the latter. Nope. I underestimated that you'd actually want to buy all the songs... sorry for that. I'm now back to working on the album as a whole, and at some point, I'll surprise you with the release date. :)
Secondly, for awhile now, I've been meaning to thank the people at ASCAP for asking me to be part of their songwriters workshop. Because of their generosity, I spent the better part of October and November traveling back and forth to LA to meet with producers and publishers, write with some really talented songwriters/artists, etc. It's been a LONG time since I've done any co-writing, and it was an amazing experience to focus on writing songs for other artists and styles. I'm honored they included me, and I'll definitely keep you posted as we finish some of the songs...
So, that's it for now. I hope you're doing great, and if you live in DC or Baltimore... yeeeeeeeeeaaaaah... hang in there. At least you'll be able to go sledding well into July, right? :)
Gavin
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