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Day Forty Seven (Year Five)

Knowing that I had tomorrow off, one of the things I wanted to get done tonight was to get at least one of my scheduled errands crossed off of tomorrow's list early, the theory being that then I would have more time to spend in the studio on my day off.  Having pre-ordered Single Mothers, the new disc from Justin Townes Earle (out today), it made sense to me to stop off at the record store on the way home from work tonight and pick that up.  What I wasn't counting on that turned out to be awesome was this:

I found, not only JTE's new record, but also

Somewhere Under Wonderland - Counting Crows (Vinyl)
Ryan Adams' new, selftitled disc
Into The Wide - Delta Spirit

I'm really excited about the new Delta Spirit record, if only because that one wasn't even on my radar screen.  I guess I've been doing a poor job of researching upcoming new releases of late, because I didn't even know this one was scheduled.  Although, in an interesting twist of fate, I did listen to a bit of their last record, from 2012, the other day, and think to myself, "now there's a band that needs to put out a new record."  Ask and ye shall receive, I guess.

If I could have one goal for tomorrow, it would be to figure out the rest of the music for the opening track of my EP.  I'm not even going to be greedy and say that I'd like to get the music demoed and maybe get started on the lyrics (although, technically, I suppose I just did).  No, I just want to finish  the music.

Wish me luck.
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