EPTI started writing songs and recording music when I started college (I'd been playing guitar for a few years at that point). I went through college in 3.5 years and then went to law school for 3 years, and then I practiced law for 7 years or so (time flies). I started playing live shows in law school, and was in a band that played around central Texas for a few years while I was working at a law firm in Austin.
It's always been my desire to do something with my music, but I have always pushed it to the side in favor of more "practical" things. But also, I've always felt really insecure about my music. I'll work and work and work on a song until it sounds really good to me, and then when it's time to share it with the world, I'll start to hate it for some reason or another.
I think I have reached a turning point, though. Over the Christmas holidays, I got together all of old songwriting notebooks and have started recording (or in some cases, rerecording) the songs that seem promising to me. Fifteen years of messing around with a guitar and a pen and paper has added up to two two-inch binders full of songs and song fragments.
So I am going to share these songs with you as individual songs, and I'll tell you a little about each one as I do. I've always wanted to release an album, but because these songs were written over such a long stretch of time, they are of wildly different styles and genres, from singer-songwriter to EDM, and don't really hang together as a single thing.
The song I'd like to share today is one I wrote in 2002 or 2003 and started recording this February. It's about that feeling of loneliness you get when you can't sleep, because your mind is racing with worries and you can't see a way out.
https://soundcloud.com/user812632894/middle-of-the-night
If I get a good response, I'll start doing these regularly.
Peace.
