Sanctus Real

A few weeks ago we ran across our friend from the road, Al Denson. He’s been involved with Christian music for a long time and is an all around swell guy. He offered places for us to stay and rest in different parts of the country if we happened to be passing through them. Well, it just so happened we were. The first place was his ranch in Texas where we rode 4-wheelers. It was a great and refreshing day.

The second was a condominium at Lake Tahoe in Nevada. After our stop in Universal City, CA, we just happened to be headed north with a day off. So we called Al up, and he was more than happy to let us use the space.

We decided to commit this day to writing music for our next album. Earlier in the summer we borrowed a family’s lake house in Michigan for writing, and it was incredible. We were hoping to get some more of that good mojo going on the road…after all, it’s autumn in Lake Tahoe. Mountains, woods, water, crisp clean air. It’s such an inspiring atmosphere and a place we’d never been before.

I’ll say one thing about being in a band and our work being creative in nature. Creativity doesn’t play well with time contraints. Sometimes it flows fast and free and you have to do all you can just to keep up, but other times, and much more frequently, you have to “wrestle the bear to the ground”, as someone smart once said. This writing day was a day of wrestling that old bear. By the end, we got somewhere and we got somewhere good, but it was hard work, and it’s still incomplete. In other words, the bear isn’t down yet, but that’s alright because winter is coming and he’ll be going to sleep soon.

Wait, does that mean a hybernating bear is easier to wrestle, and our music will put people to sleep? That’s a bad analogy. We can’t have that.

I don’t know what I’m saying anymore.  Lake Tahoe is gorgeous and awesome. The end