Good morning! It's a lovely, chilly day in Charleston and I hope you guys are as excited as I am about the holiday season. My second single "Finally Normal" is set to be released on December 12th across all major streaming platforms as well as Apple Music, Google Play, and Amazon Music (amongst many others). I've been tied up working on a personal project for my extended family, so that has really been consuming the past week or so, but I'm on the tail end of getting that finished. I've been back in the studio working on some new material and I think you're going to really enjoy that. Just to give you a reference, I just played the opening 14 seconds of it and it made my wife and my daughter cry (happy tears, not because it's just THAT terrible :) ). But it's a very personal song and one that I've felt compelled to write for a long time now. But the songwriting process for me is very delicate - you want to keep the mood intact without oversimplifying or making it overly complex, while still making it interesting to listen to and something that people will want to keep coming back to if it resonates with them. That's one of the reasons I am super happy about being a fully independent artist, because I can be working on a single song for a month or longer trying to get it right, and it's nice to not have to worry about deadlines or time constraints in my release dates.
In any case, I will probably be releasing that track either as a single, or as part of an EP (depending on how my creative juices are flowing) in the early part of 2024. In the meantime, I'm going to be trying to enjoy Christmas with the family and focusing on the really important parts of life. We have been blessed to be able to rent a beach house this year and we are going to take a Christmas beach vacation next week with my brother and his family, so that's something I'm definitely looking forward to!
I will likely be posting at least one more update in December, so stay tuned! Hope you guys have an awesome holiday and a great New Year!
