The reason for releasing this right now is because my focus is shifting away from doing music as a solo artist and I wanted to get this made before I get too deeply involved with my new band. Yep, I’m in a new rock band. I’ll have more details about that once we have a proper website put together.

Six years ago me and some other lads formed a pop/punk band named CrewmanNumber7. We wrote songs, played shows, entertained, and generally had a good time. The band even recorded a five song EP with Grammy winning producer Barry Blair (Bleach, Audio Adrenaline).

That 5 song EP was titled When Yellow Met Blue and included some of our fans favorite songs like “Plutonium Girl”, “Dreams for Us”, and “Empty Spaces.” The band split up four years ago for a variety of reasons, all very common ones among young bands. Just pick whatever cliche band split up reason you can think of and put that on CrewmanNumber7. The details are not all that important.

What is important however is that for the first time in four years our album is available for purchase through Amazon Mp3. I wanted to make it available because it was a good little album that I just didn’t want to be collecting dust on a shelf. Click here now to go have a listen and see if you enjoy it.

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This is a song I wrote for my wife for Valentine’s Day. I hope you like it.

I’ve been writing lots of new songs and I hope to be able to share some of that with you late this fall but we’ll see how things go as I am still working on finishing up my new studio.

I’ve really given up attempting to make any firm plans in regards to music anymore. They just never seem to work out. I’ve been working on this album for more than two years now, even since before Watching the Ships came out. At this point I’m considering just shelving the whole project and starting new. I’ve written a lot of new songs that I think reflect who I am now as a person and a musician so much better than songs that are several years old and I also feel like I haven’t been starting anything new because I’ve been hanging onto this idea that that the current album needs finished even though I’m not much closer today than I was a couple months ago. I feel like its holding me back at this point.

But who knows, like I said I’m not making firm plans for anything. Maybe I will finish it after all. There will be new music from me, I just dont know when.

Sometimes I wonder what purpose God has behind all these roadblocks that I’ve been facing over the past year in regards to my music. How do you know when to push ahead or change directions entirely?

Once I have my song files back I’ll be releasing a couple new songs that I hope you enjoy.