Loving Every Other Minute of It

by Art Edwards

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1.	Another Song About Oregon 03:29	buy track
2.	Johnny Marr 03:03	buy track
3.	Be Home 03:32	buy track
4.	Oregon Sky 03:11	buy track
5.	Every Day 03:40	buy track
6.	Incident 03:45	buy track
7.	Jesus Camp 03:25	buy track
8.	Crazy Around Here 03:19	buy track
9.	The Best We Can Do 03:31	buy track
10.	All Together Now 03:09	buy track

about

After the release of my first solo album Songs from Memory, I turned 40, moved to Portland, put away my guitars, and more or less called it a day. I put a few finished songs on the back burner to focus on writing novels. I wasn’t sure how much I could expect of myself to keep dividing my attention between music and writing. At that point, I was ready to choose one or the other, and I chose.

That all changed with a trip to Arizona in February 2019 to play with my friends in Murphy’s Outlaw. I’d just finish my fourth novel, Nineteen Ways to Destroy Your Rock Band, and I was ready to get out of my head, see some family and friends, remember my musical community, and contribute to it. The Murphy’s Outlaw gig made clear that, as a musician, I still had something to offer. The novel will come out in 2021, but for now, it’s time to make music again.

At 40, I felt too old to make music, but 50 feels like just the right age.

After that Arizona gig, I immediately contacted my high school friend and cohort guitarist/producer Bret Hartley, and Bret zealously supported the idea that we make another album together. I found five songs that I’d left on the back burner way back when, wrote five more over the summer of 2019, and Bret and I got to work with drummer Kevin Leahy on a new album in October. We put the final touches on it over the summer of 2020.

credits

released November 6, 2020

All songs by Art Edwards except “Johnny Marr,” by Art Edwards and Brian Blush

All songs © 2013, 2020 by Defunct Music. ASCAP. All right reserved.

Art Edwards - Lead vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals at Steady Drizzle Studio (Portland, OR)

Bret Hartley - Production, engineering, mixing, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals at Now What? Studios (Marietta, GA)

Kevin Leahy – Drums, percussion, vibraphone

Dave Lindenbaum – Additional engineering on “Incident” and Jesus Camp,” backing vocals on “Jesus Camp” at Infinite Sound Studio (Portland, OR)

Brian Blush – Electric guitar on “Johnny Marr”

Jim Gerke – Piano on “Another Song About Oregon”

Curtis Grippe – Additional engineering on “Johnny Marr” at STEM Recording (Paradise Valley, AZ)

Rebecca Kelley – Album art

Ben Price – Mastering at studilaroche/Mastering Atlanta

Thank you: Raquel Edwards; Chris, Jack, and Gretchen Hartley; Joanne Bartsch; Larry Altman; Rachael Bartsch Altman.

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Art Edwards Portland, Oregon

Art Edwards is a co-founder of the Refreshments. His latest solo album is The Brightness of an Ordinary Star. Learn more at www.artedwards.com

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