Greg MacPherson

It’s been snowing here in Winnipeg this past few days… makes me feel like either hiding away with someone close and warm or shutting the whole world off and playing music. I’ve been at this a long time, it’s official… like a compulsion or one of those seasonal instincts, I held up in my room last night and wrote a new song: first days of winter always makes new music, every year since I was a kid. Some people see the beauty in everything, even the slush, the cold wind and the terror in the skies. I’m not sure I’m one of those people but I do see the rose faced women coming in from outside, all their clothes too heavy for early winter, the furnace on fresh and the heat pounding under ankle length coats and clean mittens. None of us have the rhythm yet, at least not outside. Stay in here and write, that’s what the wind on the walls outside are telling me.

As far as updates go for those of you been asking: the studio’s booked, the musicians are coming back to town, me, Mike and Ryan are practicing on Sunday and I’ve got 30 unreleased songs to weed through for the best 10 or 12. I’ll be playing a few shows here and there over the winter, just to keep from going crazy but mostly the doors are tight, the woods all cut and the music machine’s on full blast waiting for spring. See you all soon.