Sunday, January 24, 2010

My new CD is getting mastered this week. I'd originally planned to call it All the Things I Done Wrong, but now I'm going with Chemicals in the Wheat. The cover artwork, an intricate paper cut by my friend Nikki McClure, is of a man in a field working under ominous skies. He has a pair of pliers in his right hand and appears to be disassembling a barbwire fence.

The songs, mostly guitar-driven electronic Americana, total over fifty minutes.

They are:

1. Corpse
2. Michael Jackson
3. Strange Medicine
4. All the Things I Done Wrong
5. Day's Wages
6. Buddha Chant
7. Pegasus (You & I)
8. Mister, I Can't Save Your Daughter
9. O, Tsunami
10. Your Mind is Mine
11. Swine Flu
    

Back story to the title Chemicals in the Wheat: My Grandfather Nick Herak, Sr., who died twenty years ago, was a very Catholic and Croatian cattle rancher/wheat farmer. The palms of his hands would sometimes bleed like a stigmata. He'd joke that his affliction was a gift from the Holy Spirit. I asked Mom about this earlier this month, and she pragmatically blamed it on "chemicals in the wheat" that he encountered through daily work out in the field.

Sandman 12:06 AM

Comments:

Wow, intense about the chemical stigmata! Can't wait to hear the new CD.

# posted by  Flying Mermaid : 8:21 PM

 

are you taking pre-orders?
like a CSA-- community supported artists!

# posted by  Anonymous : 8:11 AM

 

Glad to see that the Swine Flu song made the cut! Can't wait to hear it. Also glad to see you have us down for April 9th. See ya then!

# posted by  Andy : 2:58 PM

 

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