“If you wanna freak out, freak out. If you feel like all the sudden you feel like you’re six and you want to cry and you don’t know why, just go do it.

Let’s everybody just accept everyone else is going to freak out. You’re not going to be one hundred percent all the time. You’re going to have at least one moment per week where you don’t feel right. Maybe it doesn’t feel so wrong if you know that it’s kind of supposed to happen to you. It is the other side of being conscious and loving, that there are going to be times you’re going to have to “hit control alt delete.” You’re just going to have to take a moment.

So what I’m trying to say to you, is fight on. fight on everyone.”

jhnmyr:

Well, that’s a wrap on release week promotion for Born and Raised. It’s so phenomenally weird to wake up this morning at home and not in the back of a bus somewhere. On the bright side, releasing this album and getting back in touch with my fans has been something I’ve been waiting to experience for a long time now. I’m finally at a place in my life where I can truly appreciate the kindness and support, and you have shown me lots of it. Thank you for that.

As I understand it, the album is set to enter the charts at number one, which is just incredible on all your parts because there has been very little I’ve been able to do to promote it. In a world of schemes and strategies when it comes to selling something, you guys just bought music you trusted you’d like. You picked it up in the same way I made it… from the heart, no trickery. That is so cool and rare and all the marketeers in the world together can’t manufacture that. I am very grateful to you. 

The making of this record was purposely undocumented, but there are a few iPhone videos and some photos to share. I figure I’ll do that here, and more often than I usually have in the past. Even if this album slides off the charts in a month, it doesn’t make it any less special to me, and we should all be digging this music together, like we would have (and will again) on stage.

Stay tuned…

with thanks and love

John

Maybe I could stay awhile.
Maybe I could stay awhile.
Maybe I could stay awhile, I’m talking like all of the times. 
Maybe I could stay awhile. 

Little by little, inch by inch, we built a yard with a garden in the middle of it. It ain’t much but it’s a start. You got me swaying right along to the song in your heart.

And a face to call home. 
A face to call home.
You got a face to call home. 

‘Cause when you’re done with this world, you know the next is up to you. (Taken with instagram)

Cause one of these days I’ll be … (Taken with instagram)

jhnmyr:

click here to go to the iTunes store and stream the record now. Pre-order if you dig it.

I listened to the record last Wednesday on my flight to Los Angeles. Gave it one more go round before it went out into the world… one last little listen as being just mine. It’s brought me so much joy and company and peace, and I hope it will do the same for you.

JM

jhnmyr:

The incomparable David A Smith working on the Queen of California single cover…