About To Go Live

Containing my excitement is proving to be a difficult task as the 31st of October approaches. When you check back on this blog in less than 48 hours, there will be a link to a new website. From there, you are one click away from downloading 'Thursday', the album I have worked so hard to release in a year's time.

As I have been saying, the music is entirely free. Free to download, free to listen, free to share. FREE, FREE, FREE!

My hope is that all downloaders will want to return the favor and help me promote the album through word-of-mouth, social networking sites, and all other imaginable venues. 10,000 downloads is a big goal, and it is only possible if the listening community comes together.

It is difficult to believe the day is almost here. Jitters.

Three Weeks

Three weeks remain until 'Redline Project - Thursday' is finally released. The album will be available for free! Anyone who wants to download the music may do so by following a link that will appear on this blog on October 31.

I am hoping that readers of this blog will help me promote the free download by using Facebook, Twitter, and Email-blasting the news all over the web. Thanks in advance.

Can't Touch This

This announcement has me straightening my bow-tie. Redline Project - Thursday is on its way to the Library of Congress, which means that all of the tracks I have worked hard to finalize are now officially copyrighted.

Two steps remain before I can pound the 'complete' stamp onto the Redline Project.

1) I need to create a small website from which anyone can download my album.

2) I need to figure out how to convince 10,000 people that they should download my album.

Step one is easy enough because it is within my control, and since the download will be completely free, I feel the second step is not entirely out of reach.

If I still have the honor of your readership on this blog, please consider helping me promote the free download at the end of the month. By using the social media outlets available to us, I believe we can wrap this up. Thanks in advance to all who will help me get the word out.

Project Title and Album Cover

You are looking at the official cover art for the Redline Project album. 'Thursday' is the recording's title, and it is named after its final track.

Wrapped Up

I spent the evening nipping and tucking the last little glitches of the Redline Project tracks. Sitting in a folder on my desktop are ten complete and final tracks. Ready to go.

Tomorrow they ship digitally to a friend from New England who has agreed to master the project. Once his work is complete, and after I officially copyright the materials, this project is ready for the world.

What a year; what a project. I am elated to wrap this puppy up. All I need is 10,000 people to download the music, and the Redline Project is a complete success.

Three Cheers For Redline

I spent the past four hours laying down the retake of "Commons." The result is good enough to make the cut, which means that the Redline recordings are officially complete. Yippee.

A few last tweaks and this project is headed to a mastering studio. If anyone has a lead on a good venue for this, please send a link along.

Working on Final Lyrics

Lest any readers wonder if the deadline of this project will come and go, as with most 365 initiatives, fear not. With the scant free minutes peppered thither and yon, I am putting the icing on the cake, and there will be a launch in just over a month.

Steps to completion:
1) Finish rewrite of 'Commons' lyrics.
2) Re-record portions of 'Commons.'
3) Revisit final mixes; make last-minute adjustments.
4) Hire a friend (TBD) to master the recording.
5) Apply for copyrights to all songs and recordings.
6) Release this thing!

With chisel in one hand and mallet in the other, I have been buffing and polishing the chorus of 'Commons.' Here's the old:

Black hand, white hand
Gripping each other
Dance in circles
Sister and brother
Leaping, glittered splash
Underneath the fountain
Fifteen miles
A world apart
There's plenty of time
For broken hearts
Drink the moment
At the barefoot Commons

And at last, my latest (and possibly final) revision:

Black and white
A spectrum of color
Up or down
One life or the other?
Is it dark or light
Underneath the fountain?
Fifteen miles
A world away
Dawn, the tale
Of night and day
Seek the moment
At the barefoot Commons.


I think I am going to chew on that over the course of the weekend. Feedback is embraced as always.