This songwriting deal can be a challenge as life wears on you daily. I know that to be a fact because sometimes I don't want to write at all. I just want to veg out and do nothing all day long or just work on my projects at hand rather than be productive and give life to the thoughts in my head that in the past have become songs.
So when Mikod told me he was having a writer's block and he was just going to have to get through it I understood. Because I have been there and I know what that is like. What he didn't say was that he was not going to do it. So I backed off gave him his space and decided that I would keep moving anyways til he got ready to move.
This guy is so talented he did my whole first album with me. So it was a lot of fun and we are good friend besides.
But let me tell you about Monyea another really good friend of mine that I have learned a lot from him when we were on tour about being a parent and taking care of things to make sure that the family was taken care of and that you had money left over after the tour was over. He really was the one that gave me the heads up on a lot of things before they occurred. Shoot I have known this guy longer than three of my children have been alive. Not only that but my cute dog Johnson was a gift from Monyea who we miss very much.
So I'm online yesterday checking my twitter account and Monyea literally at that second that I log in told me "hey we doing an album or what?"
"Uh yeah!"
We had been missing each other for sometime via phone and email but Twitter has proven to work for me once again. I responded in record time and in seconds he was calling me while he was doing sound check for someone!
We talked and here is the plan.
He will send me five new songs that I will write to and arrange each week. I will make my trek to Atlanta by the end of January early February.
How bout this he is so silly. He says "I will make sure that you get them by tomorrow if I don't get drunk tonite!" But what I know is this...what he says he will do in terms of music he does and has the track record in the music industry.
I'm nervous but I am ready. In this Paradigm Shift I am learning to be still but in my stillness I am learning to deliberately create. This is a new experience understanding that I am living in the life that I am creating. Ah yes.
I will say this, I said I would do another album. I'm going to go here. No budget, just my word and my talent and my thoughts. I have no label backing me. No plane I am going to catch to meet my producer at the label to sign a major deal with a massive cash advance to live lavishly and hire the latest people to work with. I am no doubt going to start pinching back and saving to have gas money to DRIVE to Atlanta and make arrangements to have the kids at my dads for the time I am gone, and crash at a friend's house to get the first few songs done.
While I am there I will no doubt shop at Walmart to buy groceries to eat in instead of eating out at Sylvia's or something like that. No I won't have the money for that
Just enough to get there, lay the tracks down with vocals, eat cheaply and come back. That's it.
Won't be any champagne bottles popped, just me Y've Kemp, and Monyea and Mikod working to get this project done. Really the celebration has begun because I am happy that I am here to get the next project done.
Yeah you thought I forgot about it right? No no no.
It's still moving forward. More details on details to come.
Welcome to my fold my friend Monyea.......Lovechild Productions.
Til next time,
Mamma (Y've Kemp)
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