I'm goin' fishin'!

I have 7 songs pre-mixed and I'm sending out discs to see if I can attract some label interest and, hopefully, a budget to finish the record. 

I believe that we recorded a good cross-section of songs to represent several facets of my musical personality: my sensitive philosophical side, my bluegrass and southern gospel country side, and my more upbeat rockin' side. All of it tends to be fairly introspective and/or metaphysical as is my wont. 

Someone said they'd heard that I was going 'rock' these days but that's not really the case. I think this record will be a natural artistic progression for me. Yes, it has drums and electric guitar but in a very tasteful and organic way. Duke Levine is an amazing guitar player and I'm honored to have him on this record.

I still haven't gotten the utility player in place that can take the leads. I'm kinda re-focusing in light of the new record. I'll be looking more for an electric guitar player to take Duke's parts instead of that mando/fiddle/banjer player for whom I was looking. I'm ready and the music is ready for a different direction. 

But, take heart. Some of the new material is bluegrass at its roots. I'm just running it through some different filters. And I like the result. It's bringing together some parts of my personal musical constitution that have been kept separate for too long. It goes directly to the way Miller Williams described my music: "Hayseed's music is roots music. Not from just one tree but a whole grove: bluegrass, old-time, country, gospel, folk, rock, soul..." I think that really sums it up. 

Anyway, I'm a few steps closer to having a new record out. Hopefully, it'll be available by the end of summer. 

Hey, Record Labels... "Got budget?"

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Take care,

Hayseed