As my faithful readers are aware, I’ve got an album I’m currently wrapping up (that’s the verb that’s used for all stages of production, by the way). My engineer and producer is the estimable Doug Kwartler, omniinstrumentalist and gracious man about town. I’m very happy with how things are sounding: they sound like me, and I was reminded recently that this is not, by any stretch, a foregone conclusion.

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