Part 2 — As a producer:

It’s a busy time.  Spent the weekend in the studio working on two projects.  Will spend today, the day after Valentines Day, celebrating 14 year anniversary with the Missus.  I’ll actually take the day off.

The rest of the winter months and spring are loaded with music projects for Watchfire Music – so many that I must get better organized and get my arms around them all.  Here’s a list:

• Just finished master of “Broken Feet” for Megan Neale, new super talented artist we’re developing.  At 21 she’s already getting on top of the recording process and making some fascinating headway on the road to success.  

• Pretty much finished up the track of “Woman On A Train” for artist Julia Wade’s new CD.  This one was a bear.  It took me several days to nail down the concept of the orchestration.  Such a different song for Julia and consequently a special challenge for me.  Love it though…

• Again, pretty much finished the new track for John Lennon’s classic song “Imagine” for Matthew Hoffman and his Laws 2 Live By project.  This great song is the perfect reflection of the first commandment.  We’ll do it with a gospel choir and though Lennon originally wrote it as a ballad, it works wonderfully well with its new smokin’ track.  Reminds me of “We Are The World”.

• We’re preparing “In That Great Gittin’ Up Morning” for my new CD entitled Goin’ Home. The track is finished and the choir will come into the studio later this week to lay down the vocals.  Margaret Dorn is preparing the vocal charts.  This song is a monster for the album – very complex with multi parts against parts and step-out solos.  Can’t wait to put the singers on it!

• This week will finish up redos and touch ups on “To My Father’s House” a remake of the classic gospel song made famous by The Edwin Hawkins Singers on their historic Oh Happy Day Album. Jenny Burton and Cat Russell will do the step-outs.  This song is also for the Goin’ Home CD.

• I’ll begin preparing 3 new compilation CDs this week for Watchfire Music mixing artists from the Universal Music Group catalog with our own WFM artists.  We’ll start out by doing one on peace, one on higher love and one on redemption.  These three CDs should be killers (a strange thing to say about an album on peace, but you know what I mean).

• Also will begin preparing underscoring for Jon McLaughlin’s modernization of the Ten Commandment project.  With Alfre Woodard doing the narration, this project promises to be a rich new look at some of the classic laws of life.

• Also need to comp a lovely vocal by future WFM composer, Rebecca Minor.  She was in Saturday past and recorded a demo of her new sacred solo, “Don’t Send The People Away”.  Watch for her new works coming this spring on WFM Digital Sheet Music pages.  A very real talent here.

What am I forgetting?  Several things are pending, but not yet rolling.  And several albums of songs to begin.  More on all this later.

Actually, this writing has been very good for my brain.  Here’s the organization that I was looking for.  If I need to get better organized in the near future, I can just read my own blog.

One more missive in this series – watch for Part 3 early this week.  Things To Come — as an artist.

Stay tuned!

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