It’s already off to a rockin’ start for 2026. In the past couple of weeks releases for some heavier tunes have hit the ground running. I got to eat at a restaurant where Presidents dine. We’re slowly getting one of the coolest animated covers finished. I’m back in the studio and it’s nearly all systems go!
Kicking off the new year with another year of new songs coming out every single week. Started off with Publicity, followed by Digital Empire. This week it will be a mellow song with a heavy vibe called Echo.
If you haven’t been paying attention, new goodies hit the store for each release. If you’re clever enough, you’ll find the current week’s upcoming release items at a discount. The latest edition, besides the full blown studio mixes, transcriptions and shirts is… Wall posters of the artwork. All printed on high quality paper and shipped right to you.
Last week I spent some time in the city where Jazz was born. I played hooky from my own work to help out my girlfriend and her high school’s Jazz band. While in the city of New Orleans we ate some amazing food! Saw some incredible live music and enjoyed the mild weather.
There’s a spot in New Orleans called Dooky Chase’s. This particular spot came highly recommended by a good friend. A small group of us hoofed to the joint and got incredibly lucky to get a table. Seems a group of 4 in front of us decided not to wait the hour+ of time and we got to sneak right in.
After scarfing down a plate of stuffed shrimp, I asked the waitress about former President Obama and what he ordered. Turns out, she knew what he ordered. The gumbo. Then we were privy to a little story about that order of gumbo and what happened to President Obama. If you want to know the story, I strongly suggest that you get yourself to New Orleans and get your butt to Dooky Chase’s. Don’t forget to ask, as it’s a funny and worthy anecdote.
My time of distribution to get animated covers to Apple Music has dropped from what would normally take nearly a week per cover, to one day for all the art. Not the production of the covers themselves. Some are still in production and taking much much longer than anticipated.
There is a cover that I saw a test run of the animation last night and I’ll say this – it was fuckin awesome. Fingers crossed it gets done in the next couple of days.
Back in the studio. Getting more merch done for the store. Rounding up the next batch of animated covers and getting it all planned out for release. Plus getting more music bits into fixed form. Also, there’s multiple updates that happen right here on my dot com every week, from this blog, to the about page, store items, and more.
If you haven’t signed up for the Jody Army, it’s high time you did. You can snag a nice discount on top of newly discounted items each week.
2026 is looking like a whirlwind of happenings all year long, every single week. You don’t want to miss it.
