Out today is the 10th Anniversary Edition of my debut album GOOD INTENTIONS. First off, yes I’m aware that I’m one year late in celebrating the 10th anniversary - if you have the actual CD, it says 2013 right there on the back of it. I started remixing and remastering this album over 2 years ago, with the good intention (no pun intended) of releasing it last fall. However I quit after getting 80% of the way there, basically I lost interest. Then one day this spring a song of mine called ‘My Monopoly’ was Shazamed a tonne over a 24 hour period and I soon found out why. It had been used in a CBC radio contest called Riffed from the Headlines. This gave me the kick in the ass I needed to finish the project and it got me reflecting on the beginning of my professional music career. Some of the highlights include…
- ‘Nothing Can Stop Me’ was the first song I ever signed to a sync music library (basically a company that pitches my music to film and television opportunities).
- ‘Go On’ was picked up by CBC radio and played across the country. The CBC program Fresh Air did a little spotlight of it and one of my wife’s friends heard it and emailed her. She actually didn’t think it was me, and that she’d misheard, but her daughter was in the car and recognized the song (I’d done a songwriting class at my kids school and gave everyone a CD so she knew my music!).
- ‘Cast A Shadow, Cast A Doubt’ has been pitched to more Film and TV shows than any other song I’ve written on my own (though it still hasn’t been used in one!)
- ‘My Monopoly’ was used in a CBC radio contest called Riffed from the Headlines.
- Right before releasing this, I was at a music conference in LA and I had given a CD with three songs on it to a music publisher. I was a complete neophyte and was just learning the music business. The next day she tracked me down in the hotel lobby to tell me that she’d listened to the CD the night before and loved it. She called the music honest. Two of the songs on this album are just that - ‘Good Intentions’ and ‘Turn Out The Lights’. I usually rely on the fictional end of things when writing, but these two tracks were exactly where my head was at the time and I still love them.
So for the first time ever, you can now stream the album that started me down this musical journey that I’m still on. Listen here.