John Lardiere is sort of your mentor, isn’t he?
When he was with his band Twin A I was going to see him perform before we even knew each other. I was going to his shows, buying his records without even ever saying hello to him face to face.
So working with him is like working with an idol for you?
Yeah, definitely. It turned out that he had someone on his street team that I eventually came to know and through that connection… I was opening for Twin A for their farewell show, and that was just such a tremendous opportunity to open for this band that I loved and that I had in heavy rotation playing in my car. Then I met John at that show and from then on we stayed in touch and then eventually had the idea to work together on this album. John’s just a great, talented and amazing producer and I’m fortunate that I got that opportunity.
Tell me about the track “Heard From You”.
That’s a big favourite. That’s the free download that is available on the MySpace right now. I love “Heard From You”. It’s just such a emotional song, a song that captures what I interpret my best friend Mike would say to his father right now, who walked out on him at age 10. It got into the finals (in the top 12) in the New York Songwriters Circle Songwriting contest. It enabled me to perform at the finals in front of a panel of industry judges – which was really cool – with the 11 other finalists that all were amazing. It was such a great opportunity to be a part of that.
And for the song “Heard From You” to be the song that they picked, out of all my songs, was cool. Cause that for me was the song where I really became the representative for my best-friend Mike and said everything that he has always wanted to say to his father. That is something that really means a lot to me.
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