"इ अं'टी दाद येत!"

Perhaps it’s the anniversary of the church or my recent logging of my music to the internet or my ageing reflection in the mirror, but I am considering another recording session of primarily original music.

The anniversary has made me realize how quickly time goes by. Logging my music on the internet made me realize that I haven’t recorded anything in over a decade and as for my aging reflection; I’m not going to be around forever (at least not on this side of life).

I have a working title for the collection; “I Ain’t Dead Yet!” It’s a line borrowed from one of my musical heroes, Larry Norman, who unfortunately now has passed on.

This collection would be of songs, I have not yet recorded; most are my personal favorites. The oldest songs were written when I was 16, some were written in my 20s some in my thirties, well you get the idea – some in each decade of my life to present. Actually I haven’t written much of anything for the past 10 years, which is another reason to record these.

I would like to leave a record of my favorites; songs which I have written, always sung and never recorded. I would like to follow up with an “AIN’T DEAD YET TOUR”, but I wonder who would care?

So pray as I compile and sort through old tapes. I would like to have Larry Cook and Nori Kelley, my Brother Jerry and Heather and Eb and my daughters and even my old friends Jack Deater (a high school musician friend and Dave Smalley another high school friend to all collaborate on what would be of sorts an accumulation of my lie as a songwriter/singer.

Pray if you will – I would be recording in several locations are the country and would need to do the vocals close to home. The last project we recorded cost $ 10,000.00 and I couldn’t afford $ 1.000.00 right now, but if it is to be, it will happen. I think I need to start, if song by song and believe God for the rest.

Here is your lesson – you have today; don’t wait until your pet project is 40 years past due. We always intend to accomplish what God has us here for and as my old friends Pockets the Clown used to sing, “Tomorrow, Oh tomorrow!” we need to do it TODAY – that’s all we have. We can’t go back to what we should have done yesterday, it’s past. We can’t wait until tomorrow, because we are not promised tomorrow. If God forbid, I should die before these songs were recorded they would be lost forever. We have today; let’s do what we ought TODAY! AMEN!