Red

Well, there is a long history behind this song, but rather than go into it, I will generalize and say this song is about living in the aftermath of an abusive relationship, the ghosts that haunt the mind and soul, and the struggle to forgive, forget and finally, heal...

JC

New Release! "Steppin' On My Groove"

There's a lot to be said for Disney's Animated Classics.  They kept my daughter's attention for countless hours.  One thing we enjoyed when she was younger was watching movies together, always followed by the never boring 'dancing time'  where we could show off our new moves.  I remember watching The Emperor's New Groove where David Spade was the voice of Kuzco.  At one point in the story, Kuzco was irritated when an old man interrupted him while he was dancing.  His line was something like, “You threw off my groove.”  I thought at the time that would be a great idea for a song.  12 years later, the idea came to life.  The lyrics explain why.  (Don't Be) Steppin' On My Groove.

Stephan

Tuesday Night

What do women want? The most loaded question since the garden of Eden. Writers of both sexes have written enough material on what makes a woman tick to fill the new meta data collection spy computer of the NSA. Truth be told, nobody really knows, least not men.  We just keep guessing, put on our best game faces, but honestly have no clue.  Tuesday night is a song I wrote about some obvious do's and dont's when it comes to impressing women.  Or not.

Stephan

Finished at Last!

The last six months we've been spending much, if not most, of our free time recording three songs, which we will release consecutively, in July, 2013, starting with "Tuesday Night".

Let me begin with a big "YAY!"  We were not sure at the beginning of this three song project how to go about it.  It was the first time Stephan and I recorded without our usual line up of musicians.  We opted, rather, to use some midi/plug-ins to fill in for a few players, (for those of you who are not recording savvy, we used a bit of technology) to keep our recording costs low.  The end result?  Better than we could have imagined! 

We really had a dream team working on these songs and much thanks goes out to Steve Avedis, our brilliant producer and engineer; Tom Capek, who is our midi and mastering genius (and "crazy good" at string and horn orchestration); Doug Wilmarth for his co-writing and incredible/magical guitar skills and Colorado Sound, for their generosity and wonderful staff...Thanks Tammy!              

I wish we would have tweeted and posted pics and thoughts as we were recording this project.  We had such fun!  I believe sharing this recording experience would have been entertaining!  Next time!

JC