Album Notes

Welcome! And thanks for checking out "Getting A Round Tuit". If you haven't already figured it out, the title is a pun based on the concept of finally getting around to it. In other words, making the time for what's really important - not procrastinating. The "Tuit" part has to do with one of those silly little discs that are imprinted with the word Tuit, and someone handing one to you, saying "it's a tuit, a round one. I finally got around to it.”

We're all guilty of procrastination to a greater or lesser extent. I've had a number of songs I'd written over the years, some dating back to the 1970s, that I'd always wanted to realize like I was hearing in my head. I would keep telling myself that "one of these days" I was going to get into a recording studio and do it, but of course I never quite made the time or effort. After an 8 year hiatus – a time when I totally ignored music, both playing it as well as listening to it – I began playing my guitar in earnest again in 1998. It was a lot like riding a bicycle - you never really forget, although you are a little rusty when you begin again.

I started writing new material within a few weeks of playing again. And once more I told myself that "one of these days" I would get into a studio to record them. After I had written several complete tunes I determined that it was now or never. So I began what originally was intended to only be a 5 or 6 song project but soon grew to this work, a fairly complete discography of my songs as I always intended them to be played.

This work encompasses many different styles, reflecting my own eclectic tastes. There is something here (I hope) for everyone: rock- both hard and soft; folk and acoustic music; ethnic styled Balkan music; bluegrass gospel music; and some others that defy categorization.

Rande L. Reed August, 2003