Nearly Spring

Hi all,

I just want to thank everyone for the overwhelming response to the limited edition, vinyl version of Code Red Cloud Nine. Yield Brother Records and I appreciate all the interest, orders, wonderful feedback and reviews that have come in or been posted. The comments invariably mention how good the record sounds and the quality of the package. I won’t belabour the point, if you scroll down a little further you’ll find my original release post and the details are there. Meantime, thanks.

Erratic weather the last couple of weeks. That polar vortex you read about dumped about 3” of sleet that immediately froze on the ground in to a bed of solid ice. That was followed a day later with 3 or 4” of snow. With clouded skies and temps below freezing, it didn’t take long for the whole thing to pack down into a skating rink. Two weeks later as I peck this out, it’s 73 degrees, severe rainstorms, flash flooding and possible tornadoes tonight. Spring’s come early.

And here we are at March the one-year marker in the ongoing pandemic. It has touched all of us in different ways; family, friends or co-workers we love and know who’ve had or succumbed to COVID. Businesses permanently shuttered, teachers parents and children soldiering through on-line classes, loss of employment, disruption of ‘normal’ life and isolation. It’s an epic global tragedy and yet I’m feeling optimistic for our near future and beyond. The log jam in the vaccination roll-out is opening up and I have high hopes for herd immunity sometime this year. What seemed like the holy grail just a few weeks ago is now available at your local grocery store or pharmacy. No reason not to get the vax. We got our first last week with #2 sched’d for the end of the month. The only thing that hurt was when I started doing backflips for joy. Meanwhile, keep that mask on for a bit longer… we’ll get through.

Still haven’t been able to get in the studio to record the final song for the new album but I suspect with vaccines more accessible it won’t be much longer. Apart from that one song, everything else is recorded, mixed and waiting. I’ve been writing and stock piling tunes for the album that will follow so I’m looking forward to getting in front of a microphone again with my friends on a studio floor and under a pair of headphones.

That’s about it for now. Be smart, stay well.

Richard