Hard at Work

     Weekend gigs in the afternoon can be trouble, primarily because I have to make sure I get up early enough to be ready. About two weeks ago I got an email asking me to play at Mighty Cup N' Spoon in Glendale, AZ. Glendale had a few thousand in the streets last night to witness the lighting of the Christmas lights down Glendale Ave - Glitters and Glows of Glendale! Tonight similar mayhem is expected as Black Friday spills into Saturday.

     I've played a few shows up here, driving over from where I live in Tempe (currently). Downtown Historic Glendale is where all the antique and craft shops are found - a quaint little downtown area with lots of pedestrian traffic on the weekends. I rocked the front lawn for the lunch crowd and the passer-byers, and now I'm working on my laptop inside. This week I've been spending a lot of time on my computer just getting lots of email addresses together and sending out updates. I'm getting ready for the first pressing of the Eddie West album.

     Usually I'm on my computer at a coffeeshop where I perform and someone will either tell me they enjoy reading my emails, or a few have told me they signed up and haven't been receiving them. Since I carry around a folder with all the email signup sheets from all the shows I've ever played, I can sometimes find their name. Possibly the hardest but most rewarding part of my job is getting this email list organized. Any artist will tell you it's a lot of work, but it isn't something that I particularly excel at doing. So since this week I've been setting aside time for myself to work online I took an extra few minutes to write about it.

     I guess I skipped the update about finishing recording, but actually I still might be doing something else in the studio when I get the chance to go back to LA. For the most part though the album is done, so as the cliche goes, now the real work begins. If you follow me on MySpace or ReverbNation then you can check out some of the pictures taken at the shoot for the album artwork. In most of the pictures I look pretty tired, but there are few good ones in there I'll pick from for the album. I realized how nice it is to have recent photos too. Now I've got a haircut and feel like I should take some new ones. Though there's a lot on my plate I'm enjoying this process quite a bit. I'm a few short weeks from holding the first copies of my album in my hand. That and getting the albums out to everyone in the coming months is what all this is about for me. I hope if you're browsing through here you'll stay tuned and get your very own copy.