I love Superman!! We just watched the last two episodes of the third season of Smallville on DVD. Josh is on his way to Hollywood Video to pick up the next season so while I wait for him I thought I'd elaborate on my Clark Kent fascination. I think every driven person has to do a clark/superman balancing act. On the one hand you have your "destiny" or your dreams, goals, whatever you want to call it. On the other hand, you have all of the little things that you have to do everyday. In my case those little things include raising my two little kids, taking care of our little family, and doing shows. I try to do a good job doing those things because that is what keeps life going from day to day. The superman side of me however wants to spend every second writing the songs that will change the world and honing in on my own "super-abilities". I want to practice my instruments and compose music and dance and come up with cool ways to make our band and our sound and our message better. I think the key to true success in life lies in finding a balance between those two worlds. I know in our life Joshua makes more time for our goals and is able to fit in more super heroics than I do. I help him by being the Clark Kent side and thats probably why we are able to do everything we do. Luckily for me he pushes me to make time for my goals and I push him into the Clark side so we balance each other pretty well. He is my super hero! We'd love to hear about your Clark/Kal-El balancing acts!

Well, just a couple of days ago I put up the first four songs of our new album "He Said, She Said" to our MySpace site. Things are getting so close! I'm out of town on vacation right now (San Francisco is the the best!) but we've been copying song files back and forth over the internet to finish up the mixes. What you hear now on MySpace is the almost final mix. It's almost final because there are just a few little tweaks to some of the songs and then they all still need to be mastered. (Mastering is where you send it to a professional studio to adjust overall levels and make the sound really sparkle, or shine, or however you want to describe it.) Once that is all done, we are ready for duplication, and then I'll be posting a release date.

The really cool thing is that now that we have something up on MySpace, I can actually start showing everybody our music. So once my vacation is over, I'm going to start spreading the word. Let's get the ball rolling!

Also, before the offical release of the album, we will have www.freelybound.com up and running and at least 1 music video, and hopefully more, but that's a lot of work.

Until then, enjoy the 4 songs on MySpace, tell us what you think, and then tell your friends.

Thanks for the support,

Joshua

P.S. Doesn't Evette look gorgeous in that red dress? (A little secret. She didn't wear a red dress to the photo shoot. It was brown, but I made it red in Photoshop. Yup, the nerds have all the fun.)

Currently listening : Breakaway By Kelly Clarkson Release date: By 30 November, 2004

We are about a week away to calling it wraps in the recording studio. I'm hoping to release our first album within a month. Lots left to do, though. We still need to take pictures, finish the artwork, finish putting together freelybound.com, and do the mastering and duplication. On top of that, I'm still working about 60 hrs a week and getting ready to go on the road with my fultime gig, The Duttons. It'll be happening soon, though. Once I have a mixed copy of the songs, I'll be putting 4 up on the myspace (The current song is just a demo version.)

Hah! And I'm writing all of this with still 0 myspace friends. Well, that's the next step. Start getting the word out. But I kind of need a finished project first. At least I'll be telling the couple dozen people I now with myspace profiles to start checking out my work in progress. Thanks for your time,

Joshua Dutton