For anyone following news about my forthcoming CD, you may have noticed a few recent changes. For one thing, the release date has been pushed back from May 31st to mid summer.

I was finishing up some remixes and remasters based on feedback from a few trusted friends who had previewed the disc when my studio was flooded by 3 and a half feet of water at the new moon high tide. Ironic that the moon prevented the release since I had chosen the blue moon in May as the date to shoot for. Oh, well. that's the price of living on the beautiful wetlands. Water actually came over my desk in the middle of the night after we evacuated the building and my monitor speakers on their tall stands ended up inthe drink.

It could have been much worse, but the resulting clean up and rennovations have set me back in terms of time lost.

I've since been able to get back to work on polishing the details and I finally commited to the last set of mixes, the final song order and title, all of which I had been obsessing over for too long. So hurray, I'm done and very happy with the finished disc. The working title, In Certain Light has been changed to Another Life which has more levels of meaning in the context of this set of songs.

I submitted the record to iTunes yesterday, May 23rd, exactly six years to the day since we moved into this house where most of it was recorded. Some demos had been in the works and some songs written before then, but it's been a pretty solid six years of crafting the music in this place.

I'm going to avoid predicting the actual date for a CD release party until I have a shipment of discs in hand. The download version could take 8 weeks to actually hit the Apple iTunes store. But the wheels are in motion and now it's time to rehearse a solo acoustic set to support what is mostly a big rock production. That should be interesting.

I'd like to thank all of the friends who have been supportive, honest and constructively critical through this final stretch of the creative proccess as the river washed over my life and marked the end of one phase of my life and the beginning of another. You know who you are.