"Jump in head first and then figure out how to swim." This was my process for recording "One Little Life." Somewhere in between the release of "Ripple" in 1999 and the breaking and putting back together of my heart, I decided to venture off into the studio alone. My only game plan was to not have a game plan. I wrote when the music came. I recorded (and re-recorded) when my ears were fresh and my tube amp warmed up. And so it went until one day I woke up and I wanted to be done. Now that the process is far enough behind me, I realize that this CD is really about doing the best you can with what you have in a way that just feels right. It"s about $35 microphones and singing through a copper pipe for effect. It"s about having no deadlines and recording in my pajamas. It"s about accidentally erasing a perfectly good vocal track and then deciding it wasn"t all that perfect anyway. It"s about hanging blankets from my ceiling to absorb the hum of the oil heater, and it"s about leaving in the sound of the garbage truck passing by because it was in the right key. Mostly though, "One Little Life" is about trust and the natural flow of creativity when all sense of time disappears. I hope you can hear what I mean when you listen to this collection of new songs.