Demos; the first cut is the deepest....
Demos usually contain core ideas.. which don't always survive the transition to the finished recording
Homespun Records…
When the pandemic kicked in, We huddled down and followed ‘procedures’ - I won’t debate whether all of it was absolutely necessary - in my case the forced partial solitude along with my my wife Pam, and our third son Richard, wasn’t actually that unpleasant. We dreamed of self-sufficiency, listened more acutely than usual for the delivery guys at the door, and generally got on with things as best as we could. The Spring that year (2020, was it?) turned out to be quite extraordinary. The weather was immaculate for a couple of months; I remember thinking it was some celestial consolation prize; We ate dinner in the garden, night after night… stockpiled food and wine - and generally enjoyed a passive existence for a while. As the Summer drew on, restlessness increased, and it acted as a catalyst for reawakening the dormant project of my third album - something that I and my son Andrew had discussed a year or so previously; which had been shelved while we were on lockdown. In fact it proved to be the determining event for the fruition of the whole project. I set to preparing the material - which included writing extra songs to furnish choices, documenting chord progressions, lyrics, and arrangements, and culminated in me creating a rough demo of each song as a blueprint for the proposed recording.
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