Another CD or Two?

On Thursday I took the train over to Wayne's place and we sat in his studio in the blustering wind and rain and worked on my ideas for my next two albums. One is a children's, the other a followup to Jazzmerica, for adults. It was great meeting with him, as usual. Nothing like sitting there, making lists and listening to options and discussing it all, trying to see if it flows. He liked my new song, The Goddess of War, and encouraged me to finish the melody and not worry about the chords. That inspired me to work more on it when I got home--I just wrote it the week of Thanksgiving, and I worked the morning before I went to see him on the melody and chords. For groove, I said, "Do you know techno?" He said, "No, what's that?" I told him I want it to be driving, and imitated that insistent downbeat techno or house music has, but said I want it acoustic, of course. So on the list of songs he put down, "acoustic electronica." He gave me other work to do, another song to write, and I laughed. That's so typical of Wayne: "Good job, now go do twice as much work." But he's always right.