A thousand thanks and blessings to all of you who voted for Imagined: Celebrating The Songs of John Lennon. The Nu-Utopians won the Independent Music Awards Vox Pop Award for best tribute album in 2010. Tom Dean of Devonsquare and I began collaborating on Imagined a year ago this month and officially released it on what would have been John’s 70th birthday last October. Although we were disappointed that we didn’t win IMA’s Critics Choice Award back in May, it sort of made sense when we learned that Snookie and the entire cast of Jersey Shore were judging our category. That’s pretty funny, no?
We learned about our win last week while recording nine new tracks for our second Lennon album at The Studio in Portland, Maine, then went out and celebrated at J’s Oyster Bar; a cool dive bar in the Old Port area with great eats. We brought all seven band members in to record, plus Maggie Coffin, our guitarist Robby’s phenomenally soulful fifteen year-old daughter to sing lead on “Revolution” and “Dear Prudence.” If you’ve seen her perform these songs with us live then you know exactly what I’m talking about here. Stay tuned for all the details as we continue to record with a release date scheduled sometime in early 2012.
Meanwhile, Neal and I expect to finish our Cause and Effect CD later this month. Neal is putting the final touches on a few of the tracks before we “harvest” it this fall to commemorate our 40th anniversary together. As mentioned before, this will be a stripped down all-acoustic album of our “give a damn” songs including several new compositions that feature our beloved Freddy Holman on bass. This recording really captures our live “power trio” sound and may well be the best album Aztec Two-Step
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