I have been approached with a couple different opportunities to make a new record and after some thought, consideration and a fair amount of prayer, I do believe it is time to move forward.

What does this mean?

Well, I have not written any complete material in several years, so that means I am going to have to commit myself to writing about 20 songs. I have some old stuff, and there are always the opportunities for covering someone’s song, but to be honest, I would like to do something new and fresh.

Why now?

Well, there are a several reasons. One is a sincere lack of resources. As a worship leader in a very progressive church, there are not many people putting out the type of stuff we do, which makes it very difficult for me to find songs for us to do at Crossroads…couple that with my overly critical opinion on music in general, and you end up with a situation where there is barely anything to use.

Two, opportunity. Both from a time and ability standpoint, and from an industry standpoint. Right now the industry is changing and making it much easier for a solo artist with no label support to make a dent in the music scene……there are other things, but I don’t feel comfortable putting them out there just yet.

Three, I just feel the need to be creative again. I have had the itch to write for about 2 years and have kinda been waiting to see if my old band would be interested in writing with me. You see, I love the dynamic of writing with others and the “others” I have written with before are pretty sweet. At this point, however, it doesn’t appear that my band of brothers will be heading in this direction any time soon, so I have decided not to put it off any longer.

How long will it take?

I am not sure. I sat down the other day and started pounding away on my acoustic and some cool stuff started coming out. It may happen fast….it make take a while. I hope not though. I would like to start writing regularly just to keep that side of me working fully.

So I am excited. Really excited. The crazy part is that I already have ideas and plans for about 2 or 3 other records, so it will be interesting to see where God takes me in this venture…..

Stay tuned….. And go to iTunes and buy my old band’s record! (thehungr)

~jfm3~

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