The buds are starting to pop. Bradford pear tree's are in full bloom. They are the first to go around here and they let out a pungent aroma as the pollen takes flight. Today we headed into ATL and Jenn had her bow rehaired at Stephanie Voss's violin shop. We killed some time at Borders and Whole foods while we waited for the job to be done. Nice to get out of the house first thing for a change.

Now I am waiting for some files to transfer to my Mac tower and then we'll transfer some condensed files for mixing. John Nicholson at Hilltop studios will be mixing these. The process was so much easier on the "lift" album having John do the mix. Also, having another perspective can be helpful. I mixed our first two albums and it was a nice shift working with John on the last one. We'll also be recording tracks for our next album at John's studio. I am looking forward to a change of pace and handing over some of the engineering responsibilities.

We'll make some of these recordings available in our next quarterly download. We also have some downloads available now at our page on ReverbNation. Mailing list subscribers have access to the exclusive tracks.