Album Notes

While trying to come up with a title for the album, I was kind of stumped. I went through the various tracks of the CD in hopes of using one of them as a title, but nothing really clicked as to the what the entire CD was about.
Or, the ones that were close were either too long or didn't sound right.
Since the CD had more of a country flavor, I wanted to give it a title that would reflect that. There was an old tractor in a rural area I drove past one day, and I thought, "Hmmm, how about, 'Old Tractor'?"
I could set up my camera and get a shot of me sitting on the tractor with my guitar.
Then, I came across an old picture of sitting on a porch at a nearby farm set up like the ones back in the 1800's. The picture was perfect for what I was looking for, but it was seven years old.
So, my wife and I headed back out to the farm with my camera and guitar and the folks out there were nice enough to let me take a more recent picture, this time with my guitar.
I still didn't have a title for the CD, and as I was listening to my music categories on my sattelite line up, there was one called, "Screen Door," which is alternative country-folk type music.
"That's it!" I yelled to nobody, since I was alone at the time. The farm picture shows me sitting by a screen door, so I thought it was perfect. However, the creative process always keeps progressing, and as I thought some more, I figured the porch takes up more of the picture than the door does. And, even though it was more of a side porch I was on, I always liked the thought of sitting on a front porch.
Not the ones that are screened in to keep the bugs out, but the authentic front porches of way back when.
The ones at the old farm houses where families would sit and look out at the fields, or the small town front porches where Andy Griffith would play his guitar at night.
And, to make a long story even longer, when I told my wife of my new selection, she asked if it was because of what I said at my brother Joe's eulogy during his funeral.
It hadn't crossed my mind until then, that I had used a qoute from someone who's name escapes me that said, "Life is just the front porch of the house."
Now, the title felt even more appropiate, since one of the tracks on the CD was written to my my brother and his memory.
There would be no other choices after that.