Album #7 (2023)

Although I may be in the minority here, I’ve always enjoyed listening to records that artists I dig make when their popularity appears to be waning or (when they appear to be) at the beginning of a “poor patch”. I also like to think of these periods synonymously and alternatively as an “80’s period”. When I was making this record I definitely felt like I was at the beginning (and in the midst) of an eighties period for me. I started out with over 100 songs to select from that I’d written for this record. I stayed at a Showground for a week in rural Australia which happened to have an old piano under the grandstand. For the first time ever making a record I tested out my new songs as solo vocal/piano pieces. They all seemed to work very well on piano and I was enjoying the change in tone in my voice that both time and said piano was bringing.

All the songs on this album were recorded in an old hall, again in rural Australia. Most of the songs that I thought would remain as piano pieces fell away from selection and my new voice that I had discovered at the Showgrounds was now nowhere to be seen (or heard) come recording time at the hall.

I see this record as; a little rough around the edges with some moments of beauty and some missed moments. And of course, as an album made at the beginning of my very own “eighties period” with maybe 3 great songs.