HOW LONG WAS I OUT? - EP
Release Date: February 3rd, 2025
TRACK LISTING
1. Widow's Walk
2. Hammer Out
All songs written by
James Stanley Walker
C&P 2025 Thon Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved.
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THIS ALBUM:
Hello again.
So glad you're here.
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So, I began working on a new album project this last summer.
And here’s a little Behind The Scenes info:
What tends to happen for me at the beginning phases of a music project is:
I choose a group of songs to work on, start recording them, and as I continue along the process, seemingly out of the blue, a theme or link between the songs starts to develop. It always seems to happen very unexpectedly. It makes my heart beat fast.
It's the most exciting time of the project for me.
All kinds of ideas and possibilities start to occur. The commonalities between the songs get stronger, the arrangements come together, the melodies start popping and playing off each other, I rework lyrics to jibe more with the overall idea.
It’s absolutely thrilling.
Usually.
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In the case of the album I started last summer, that never happened.
The songs never felt like they worked together as a larger album.
It was frustrating. I almost just scrapped the whole thing.
#Fail
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But instead of scrapping it I just left it alone for a couple of months and worked on other non-musical things.
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When I came back to it what I discovered was that although the songs didn’t work as a full album, they worked very well in smaller bites...three-song bites to be accurate.
Each group of three seemed to have a mind of its own. They all locked arms, stamped their feet and demanded to be together.
It was kind of eerie.
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So with that in mind, I pivoted away from the album idea, and decided to release them as four individual three-song EPs, each with its own theme and vibe.
I'll release one of these every few months over the course of the year.
And there you have it.
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This second EP of the group is this one - HOW LONG WAS I OUT?
These three songs are about unhealthy behaviors becoming identity, process, and good dreams
It'll be spring soon...seems like the right time of year to release it.
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Back in November I put out the first of these EPs, WITNESS MOON.​
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​It’s also a three-song deal with performances by Michele Van Kleef, Albert Reda and myself.
I didn’t release it back then with a lot of pomp and circumstance, so I wanted you to remind you it’s there because this music means a lot to me.
WITNESS MOON and the new one, HOW LONG WAS I OUT? are the first two EPs of four that I’ll be releasing this year.
They’re all branches on the same family tree, but each of the four is slightly different.
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I really hope you’ll take a few minutes to check this music out because IMHO it’s got some of my best songs on it, plus it was recorded with some of my favorite people!
Dang, they’re good!
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I hope you enjoy this, Longtime Listener...
Thanks again for being here.
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Walker
1.22.2025
2.22pm
Produced, Recorded and mixed by Jim Walker
Recorded at Studio515. Portland, OR
between 3.13.2024 - 1.10.2025
Mixed at Studio515. Portland, OR
Between 1.11.2025 - 1.16.2025
Mastered by RYAN FOSTER at Foster Mastering, Portland, OR On 1.17.2025
Label / THON MUSIC
Art Direction and Photography / Jim Walker
Release Date / 2.3.2025
Running Time / 11.00
All material written by
JAMES STANLEY WALKER
C&P 2025 THON MUSIC (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved