Keeping Up With Conrodthe life & times of c. jay conrod

Anyone who knows me knows I’ve had the con­cept for my album “For the Broken & Mending” for YEARS now. I’ve been writ­ing and acquir­ing ideas to make it as true to the orig­i­nal intent as pos­si­ble. I always felt over­whelmed by the task, even as I com­pleted more songs, and couldn’t fig­ure out why until recently.

I looked through the songs I felt fit the theme/concept of the album (I’m writ­ing new stuff that doesn’t fit this album too) and saw that I have enough raw mate­r­ial for a double-disc! Now, a double-disc project would be an awfully ballsy move for a debut album and I don’t have it in me to wait until EVERYTHING is com­pleted, so I made a deci­sion: the album will be released in TWO parts.

The songs that are just about ready will be released as “For the Broken & Mending, Part I” in the imme­di­ate future as a dig­i­tal down­load ini­tially, but hard copies should be avail­able for pur­chase in the month or so after. I’m really excited because my dream is finally feel­ing achiev­able and close to tangible.

I know more oppor­tu­ni­ties would come to me if I had prod­uct out and I’ve really hated sit­ting on so many songs for so long, but I refused to rush the release of this project and have the qual­ity suf­fer because of my impa­tience. So to every­one who asks “what’s up with the album,” thank you for being patient with me and sup­port­ing me through­out the process. I promise it will not be be vain. Stay tuned…