The Music Blog

Its been a busy fall for me. For the first time in a ton of years I have had a break from the music performance schedule which allowed me to focus on a few other things. Several years ago I had reconnected with some martial art friends that I had been out of contact with for many years, one whom I had first worked with back in the 70’s. I learned several materials from him over the years, but due to the martial arts organization I was with I was not allowed to practice this material as I made the mistake of being an instructor with them for many years, until I left them in 2003. For the last 3 years I have gotten down some old material as well as learned some new material and last month I tested to 7th Black Belt over 20 of the new materials I have learned in the last 3 years. Now I am free to work with anyone which has been wonderful, but it also means I have a lot of material catch up to do in order to get all my older material up to shape, so this time off has been great.

Now that this test is behind me I am now working on my next CD release which will make #10! At this point I have several acoustic guitar pieces written with no lyrics and only 2 songs with lyrics, so I may decide to make this just an instrumental CD. I hope to release this before the end of 2007.