Well, its been two and a half years since the last “album”. So needless to say, I AM SO EXCITED.
I’m back home in Regina, Saskatchewan and it feels almost perfect. The weather couldn’t be any colder. Its been down to the -40 to -50 area (in both farenheit and Celsius) and it reminds me of when I used to walk to school in this bitter cold and wonder if i would survive the walk!
Here is a picture from INSIDE my parents house to show how cold it really is. The INSIDE of the house is frosting up, even with the heat on!
INSIDE THE HOUSE!
So i think this is the exact kind of setting I need to make an album that is going to really hit hard. I’ve learned so much in Nashville, but I also know there is a certain grit about life in general when you live somewhere that skin freezes in a matter of seconds, cars get “plugged in” every night to keep the engines from freezing, your skin on your face contracts and gets tighter from the temperature, your eyes water, your limbs go numb, roads are like skating rinks, walking is foolish and running is necessary, and no single kind of weather added to this could keep friends from getting together and rocking out.
I think this cold carries the threat of death so well, you can’t help but feel awake and alive.
Tomorrow we start on the song “Dark Sister”. A very vibed out, almost sinister, grooving song about your darker side.
All kinds of things are swirling through my head these days. I’m 25 and about to start work on my 4th album. But by far the most prepared for, most well organized, most important, and most promising compilation of songs I’ve ever been able to comprise.
Its not all about me…i know i’m yammering on here having some kind of self realization moment… but i also want this album to be about giving something useful to the world. I feel like the last album i did in 2007 was a bit of a snob fest. It was fun as hell, but we weren’t too concerned about whether people would identify with the music or not.
This time, these songs are all songs that came out of very real places in my life, but instead of hiding the lessons in crazy symbolize and inside lyrics so that no one would find out my secrets, i decided to just fess up and be really honest and open lyrically. there is still symbolizes, but its meant to shed light, not to hide the truth.
Anyway, its late and i’m still exhausted from the drive up from Nashville. I’ll be blogging, posting pictures, shooting video etc. for the duration of the recording process (in true geek fashion).
So hopefully i can yammer on some more later, and for now get some shut eye!
Very excited though, and i hope I make you guys proud and don’t disappoint on this one! But I already can tell, there is some magic in the air in Saskatchewan right now! 
I’m feelin good!
Here’s a picture from my drive up to show the prairie air, so cold that the steam from the plants just hangs in the sky.
Goodnight! See you tomorrow!