Jess Klein – Backstage

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Blogging to you direct from Aerie Studio in Austin, TX – we’ve just finished the basics for seven of the tracks for the new album. The players: Rob Hooper on drums, George Reiff manning the bass, Scrappy Jud Newcomb on guitar, Mark Addison and Scrappy co-producing. There is a mood and real energy and feeling to every song. Everything’s been broadened, lifted to a new level. I feel like the songs have real lives of their own now, bigger than me, which is the best. And all these great ideas lifting them up makes me feel like I’m really part of something. I don’t know how articulate I sound saying all this, but life is good in the space of making music with gifted players. Just now I was so relieved to hand over my guitar part in one of the songs to Scrappy – just to be able to say, this would be better for the feeling of the track – relieved to not have it be about me having to make my mark in that particular way. We have a couple more days of overdubs and then I head to Nashville to write with Phil Madeira who plays in Emmylou Harris’ band! I came into the studio this time with about 25 songs and now in Nashville I hope to write a few more. I’m interested to see how many I can write in this streak, in this space and time in the world, or my experience of it. It’s been a good streak since moving to Austin. I put myself on a mission this time around that if I could see an uplifting end to the story of a song, I would head for that. I was tired of beleaguering anything, feeling that a greater challenge would be to find the love in any situation. I think we’re calling the album Bound to Love, which was the title of the first song I wrote when I moved into my little cottage in South Austin.