"When I Let Go" was my first record, which hulla was generous and gracious to mention.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/when-i-let-go/304922304
I wanted my next record to be less "reflective songwriter" and more electric-guitar album rock... like a Stones record somewhere between "Sticky Fingers" and "Some Girls" (I'm not saying that's where the songs are all gonna land, but that's what I'm aiming for).
About four years ago, when I was about eight songs into this rock album, I was feeling frustrated at the pace of my songwriting. On a lark, I decided to get the studio pros (who are brilliant and who I had already booked for a session) to use that day on some different original material -- one Philly soul track and one disco number.
So on that day in late 2016, the disco project started with me going to South Austin Music and buying a wah pedal and a vocoder. Then there were nine more songs, four+ years of string arrangers, hired orchestras, horn arrangers, marching bands, gospel choirs, multiple percussionists, and an extensive search for the right vocalists... It is about as ambitious as a musical project can be.
Last week I handed off a hard drive of the final disco/funk sessions to the mix engineer.
Edit: obviously I was not successful enough for iTunes to disambiguate me from everyone whose name is remotely similar to my own. The only songs that are mine on iTunes are the ones listed under that album title. If you click on my name, none of those other people/songs are me/mine.