My first single, "Don't Mind Me" is coming out May 3rd on all streaming services, and available to buy!
I'm very excited for this song to come out, it's been a long journey for it.
Back in 2007, I joined The Third Edge, and finished mixing the band's first full-length, self-titled album. There were a lot of shows played, and we were working on a lot of new material at the same time.
In 2008, as we played and worked on the new songs Ray had written, I came up with a couple songs for the band, and worked on them with Ray.
The second song I started writing was "Don't Mind Me". I had most of the music, and Ray came up with a part that helped tie all the pieces together, and made it whole. We practiced it a few times and immediately started playing it, and it felt and sounded really good! Ray was singing, and people seemed to like it.
It took a while for me to figure out that he didn't actually have lyrics for either of my new songs...and it was live on stage when I did finally figure it out.
We were playing some bar, and there was an obnoxious drunk guy there, shouting out unintelligible things, as they do. When we began playing one of my songs, I noticed he was singing the same melodies as usual, but was singing about the drunk idiot, the picture on the wall...things he was seeing around him!
I asked him afterwards, and he admitted he didn't have any lyrics for my songs, and would just sing whatever came to mind while we played it. But still in the correct melody he'd come up with! (Ray really is fantastic at the whole music thing.)
It wasn't until 2011, while we were trying to finish up the recordings for the second The Third Edge LP that he admitted he still didn't have any lyrics, and asked if I would write them.
So I did...I have a couple different versions, but this is the one I sent him in 2011. I actually had to go back to find that email so I could re-record the song for this release.
The last Third Edge album never did get finished, which makes me sad, there's some great stuff on there...but after 16 years, my version of the song will come out May 3rd, 2024.
I hope you like it!
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