I never expected this.

I never expected a record producer would suggest I release a CD of my songs – with me doing the singing. But Eric Copeland did just that back in the spring of 2017, when he dared me to put this project together.

I never expected some of these songs to ever be heard by anyone other than close friends. Every songwriter has his favorite songs that have yet to find a home. Maybe the songs aren’t radio-friendly. Maybe they don’t say what recording artists want to say. And maybe, as is the case with several of these songs, they are ironic – and Christian music has never been big on irony.

I never expected to finish this. A project with no budget, no deadline, and no official beginning is a project with no definitive end. You work on a piano track here, and add a guitar track there. Three weeks later, you might lay down some BGVs. The tracks for this CD were recorded in fits and starts over a stretch of fifteen years.

But I do expect this record will come as a surprise to those familiar with my choral music, CCM songs, and musical theater work. These are not those kinds of songs. But they are as authentically a part of me as anything I’ve ever written.

So here it is – Sounds Crazy. An appropriate title, if ever there was one.

Robert (October, 2019)