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There is a NEW Happy Rhodes interview at the Cutting Edge Voices web site.
From that interview:
CEV: I guess the next question is inevitable but what have you been up to since 1998 when Many Worlds Are Born Tonight was released? Are you always writing songs even when you don't have a pending project that you are writing to finish?
HR: Again, I'm assuming that I'm unlike a great many other artists in that I really have no desire to write unless I know I'll be releasing a CD. It hasn't always been like that. When I was younger, I'd write as a form of escape and didn't think about whether it would become a song on an album. But my agenda was so very different back then. I don't have anything to prove now, so I start writing when I begin to feel ideas creeping into my head bit by bit. Now is a good example...I wrote a great deal of songs in preparation for "Find Me", which hasn't been released yet. Once it was all recorded, I stopped writing. I haven't written one note of music since then, (other than collaborative works) but lately, certain ideas and feelings have been surfacing, which tells me that I'll be writing for another CD soon. The next project will be another self-produced one.
As for the rest of my life, many personal changes have been taking place and I've really needed to just live my life and not worry about how much music I was putting out. Consequently, my new CD is not released yet and gathering dust. But not to worry. It ain't over yet. I just need to master it and get the artwork done and it'll be ready for release.
CEV: You also hinted at writing for a new CD even beyond Find Me but you use the word "different" to describe what shape that music might take. Care to elaborate on that statement or is it too soon to say at this point?
HR: I've been feeling a bit like doing some music that's not song-oriented with lyrics and such. Vocals yes, but not necessarily intelligible lyrics. I feel like getting weird....er. I will probably include straight ahead song material because I won't be able to help myself but I don't want to make a "theme" album.
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