The Never Ending (CD) Story

Like the never ending piano chord at the end of the Beatle classic A Day in the Life, creating the next CD in my 12 CD series is taking FOREVER! It makes me very sad. See my sad face?

I have no idea what is up with this CD!!! I've been at it now for over 2 months! Now, by most mortal standards this is perfectly acceptable, but I hold myself up to a higher (insane?) standard.

As I sit here in a post illness haze with my studio, pills, vitamins, headphones and fortune cookie in front of me I am ready to push on and get this CD done!

As you know (since you're reading this blog) I am attempting to record 12 CDs this year. Now to meet my goal I need to try to release about one CD a month, I figure it takes about 2 weeks to record and week to mix, master and send to the manufacturer...then a week to recover and plan the next CD. SIMPLE! It worked great for CDs 1-4...but starting in the month of May the bottom dropped out.

Before I go on with my following rant I want to say that I am still totally committed to recording and releaseing 12 CDs before the end of the world, I mean the end of the year...I WILL DO IT.

But how did I end up here? Excuses, excuses...

Well, starting in May my gig schedule increased and by the summer months I was touring non stop, doing 2-4 (sometimes 6) shows a day and driving up to 6 hours a day...Mmmmm....

This CD is quite different, for one this it was the first project I planned in advance, even did the artwork before recording!

I am working with awesome co-writers, the songs are very different, more complex then usual since this CD is aimed at an older audience and teachers.

For some reason almost every time I scheduled recording time I ended up sick or someone in the family was sick or needed me....to be expected, life...

I pit my foot down and decided to finish the whole thing last weekend until I got the worst stomach flu of my life...I am just now getting out of bed, BUT...somehow I did manage to record a new song while in bed yesterday morning and I plan to share it with you now. It's called GOOD PLACE.

I posted about this song a while back, one of my reader Kids Music Planet Podcast host Lisa Harper replied with lyric changes, we started a dialog and her ideas were so good I decided to give her writing credits, thanks Lisa!

The basic tracks were done on my iPad in the kitchen at a slower tempo. I moved it to the Mac and added vocals and effects while insanely sick yesterday.

It's heavily influenced by 1980's synth pop bands like Depeche Mode and Soft Cell. Hope you like it...comments please?



Good Place
(c) 2012 Doctors Orders Music, BMI
By Lisa Harper and William Charles Grisack III

If you're working hard to be
Fair and caring, honestly...
That's a good place
If you try to stay on track
When no ones there to pat your back
That's a good place

But when you feel like there's no hope
You can't even start to cope
Can't walk or run with the human race
That's a bad place

Do you remember any time
Something almost changed your mind
To that good place?
Forgive yourself and let it go
Respect yourself and you will know
A good place

A bully here, a pothole there
The world is filled with such despair
One by one you can save a face
From a bad place

If you want to heal your heart
Good Character's a place to start
Step by step you can set the pace
Toward that good place