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My life goals for 2026 are mostly music related.
One goal was to figure out how to get my original songs onto streaming platforms like Spotify, etc
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The Latest Grits albums chronicle my musical experimentation.
Latest Grits, Vol. 1 is the wildly eclectic kickoff to this series.
There are songs I wrote to my mama, to lovers old & new, to my scowling neighbor, to no one but myself, to I have no idea because that was years ago & I don’t know now & I knew less then.
There’s one instrumental; an improvised piece on a borrowed banjo, captured on a peaceful day watching an Ohio snowfall.
There’s my imagining of a blackbox recording from a downed tourism spaceship, possibly caused by the cruise-ship-style dance number that can be heard rippling through the degraded, yet still somewhat danceable, audio. That one’s a treat. A fan asked what I sampled for some of the vocals/music. Nothing. Well, myself. Recording, distorting, playing, looping, collaging.
Volume 1 is a collection of 15 songs of unknown year, but around 2020, give or take.
These are songs that rose through 100’s of raw recording sessions & into my personal “Playable Jukebox”. That means that, at the time, each of these tracks captured something of what I deeply needed to express. Sure I could record new versions of (some of) these songs, but why?
The Latest Grits Project is specifically for releasing those captured recordings.
The tracks are simply ordered alphabetically.
Any resemblance to an intentional transition from one song to the next is purely coincidental. Though, I did title each song, so? Perhaps counter-intuitively, this ordered approach (which quickly reduced the number of decisions I needed to make) added an element of randomness.
You can give the composer/producer credit for the inevitable emotional arc of the album’s alphabetical tracks if you want.
Yeah, but what new curves crook up the road when the tracks are played in reverse? Track 15 down to Track 1?
What’s that arc?
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