Today I was at a Lowe's hardware store. They already have their Christmas trees and decorations display up and running and immediately I got the urge to make Christmas music. That's all it took for me. I'm definitely not ready for Christmas but this is surely the time to start working on some Christmas songs. The music industry usually gets their new holiday albums recorded in the summer and begin releasing them now or shortly. Me, well, I guess I do things my own way which is not always the most efficient. But it's still a great time to record perhaps a couple of new tunes and maybe even a few covers.
Seeing all those decorated trees and lights and everything just brought the Christmas mood onto me. Christmas music is so timeless and all those classic recordings from the 50's, 60's & 70's started coming into my head. I became very excited at the thought of creating some new Christmas songs. And it's not only because I really love Christmas music but also because I still believe that holiday music is a great way to get into the music business. Yes, that is still ultimately my goal because I cannot see any fulfillment in doing anything else. Of course, I will continue to make music regardless as long as I am able.
So from this point forward I'm going to buckle down and start trying to reach some year-end goals. These include at least one new holiday tune, a holiday cover tune and another song I started working on months ago but have not finished. This song in particular is my longest song yet at ten minutes. My plan for this tune was to make it a 2-part song. The first part would feature lyrics and the second would be instrumental. I envisioned it as bookends for my next album, with the first part opening the album and the second half closing it out. I'm not terribly concerned about the instrument tracks. I already have the main guitar track laid down. My main concern is that I have had some writer's block on the lyrics and I need to get it written soon. This will be a mainly acoustic guitar song with a good amount of minimoog sounds.
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