Song #33 – Devil, Devil (#100songs)

Hello friends and fans!  I’m happy to be nearing the end of 2015 while completing the first step my #100songs project.  I know, you’re probably like, um… it’s December 28th and you’re only on song #33.  Yeah, er, um (looks at toes, hands clasped behind back, looks up at you and…), so it took a bit longer than I had expected, AND I also was out on tour through Europe for a month in the middle of it all… so, cut me some slack 😉  I’ve been rehearsing for two different recording sessions, one with 23 Psaegz and another with a smaller contingency of that band tentatively named Multibird or VsVvs or Faergolzia.  Send us your votes as to which name you like best!

In case you don’t know yet, this song project involves recording 50 songs over the course of 2015 from the 100 songs I wrote during the end of 2014.  I’m nearing the end.  There are 39 completed at this time, but I’m waiting for mixes from John Kilgore and Jim McElwaine at Kilgore Sound for 3 of them, and I have not yet posted another few.  In addition to these, at the end of January, the Sages will be going into BlackDog, Rochester, NY, and the “unnamed contingency” will hit Kilgore Sound in February for the very last tracks.  50, maybe even 52 songs… a little late, but the art is what really matters.

This song, Devil, Devil is one facing up to that age old problem of mastering one’s self in order to defeat the negativity of the world.  I chose to use the devil mataphor though I’m not really a believer in the existence of that being.