New CD project songs: Gone Native

I was just in a production meeting Friday night with Kevin Johnston at Orca Sound Studios. Kevin produced my first CD and did such an amazing job I feel he's the best man for the next project. We discussed the project, the songs we think would be best for it, the budget, and many other things in relation to music. I'm really looking forward getting started on the recording next Sunday, April 7th. I've attached the song demo I made on my iPad of "Gone Native," one of the songs that will be on the CD and possibly the name for the CD.

The song was inspired during one of my recent trips to Key West. I had this kind of jumpy jive in mind and the song is lively and fun. The song is about those individuals who make that leap and decide Key West is the place for them for whatever reason. There are three stories in the song: The first one was inspired by a musician friend who moved there later in life; the second story is a woman I met who grew up there and always longed to return, finally moving back with just a few dollars in her pocket. She told me," I wouldn't leave here if I could. This is paradise."

The last story is my summary of my own feelings about Key West and the Keys in general. If I could find a way to live there I would. Every time I visit a piece of my heart and some of my soul stays behind. It's hard to explain the way I feel so at home there, when I'm there. Maybe some day I'll take that leap…

 I'm going to be blogging about the CD as we work on the project so please follow me, if you would! Any comments, thoughts, jokes, whatever, are more than welcome.