Warning: Really Old Guy About To Release Album!

Warning! Really old guy about to release album! You know the way you warn your loved ones when your 90-yr-old parent or 16-yr-old kid take to the roads? I’m not quite 90 yet, but it has been some 40 years since I released my fifth album of original songs. And for many reasons, including the fact that I’m very happy with how my Jimmy & Me Revisited album came out last year, I thought it might just be time to risk it again. Add to that the fact that now seemed like an especially good time to try and cast some lovebread upon the waters, so to speak (slight variation on Ecclesiastes 11:1), with all that’s happening in the world right now.

I started out on my “borderline career” in the 70s—yes, the 1970s—as a Jesus music singer-songwriter, first traveling around with a couple different bands, and then a dozen-odd years as a soloist, singing about God’s love to anyone who’d listen. But there’s always been a lot about “life and love” in the songs, too, of course, and that has always seemed to cause problems for those who felt I should be doing more praise songs and less pain songs. But hey, the Psalmists didn’t sugarcoat things, so why should we? They shared it all: ups, downs, the glories of the heavens to the despair of the pit. So I figure I’ll go by their playbook.

There’ve been a lot more songs of praise and pain since that fifth album came out, but a year or so after that, I finally figured out I was really gay (you can read about The Therapy Years elsewhere), and since I wasn’t about to sugarcoat that either, there went 95% of my listening audience, along with some close friends and family members. (To the other 5%: I love you, you’re beautiful!) 

So I went into studio work and high tech, and though the songs kept coming they didn’t get recorded. That is, until I ended my high tech sojourn in 2018 and began working on music full time again.

So… More details to follow. Hold yourself in readiness. Or prepare to shut down your streaming channels on June 19. You have been warned. 

Art by Kathryn Ann Mays. (Thank you, Kathy!)