Halfway

06:08:06 (It's worth it) - Americana

Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered in Nashville, TN
Written in Sedona, AZ

John Gardner - Drums/Percussion
David Francis - Bass
Jeff Roach – Keyboards/Synth
Rob McNelley - Electric Guitars
Pat McGrath - Acoustic Guitar
Tammy Pierce - Background Vocals
Chris Heers - Background Vocals

Story behind the song:
You won’t find any women in this album who are standing on tailgates pouring ice-cold beer on their tank tops and shaking their “moneymakers”. There are plenty of those girls on the radio. Wait just a minute, is that how you get on the radio? Hmmm. Maybe I’ll sell out on the next album. For now though here is the story behind the song “Halfway”

I used to play this solo acoustic show in Sedona, Arizona at a bar called The Full Moon Saloon. The Full Moon was the only place open until 2:30am in that part of Sedona, near Bell Rock in the Village of Oak Creek. It was great because I could crash at my grandma's place two blocks away. The Moon is a great place full of European tourists and local industry people who like to sing along.

There was this girl at one of my day jobs who was an extreme rock climber. She was really nice to me until she found out that I was friends with some people she had a prior disagreement with. Then she kind of gave me the cold shoulder. It had nothing to do with me but I am one of those people who can have a thousand friends but feels the jab of the one who isn't. So this girl was on my mind jabbing me. I was thinking about how to win her over while I was driving to Sedona and also multi thinking about some rock hiking I was going to do near the Sedona vortexes. Those patterns of thinking merged and I started humming this song about a female rock climber in Sedona. I am sure that there is some psychoanalyst who could explain how this girl not liking me and this character being ostensibly suicidal fit in with each other. The girl in the story is my hero though. She is as much of a badass as Joe Security. "Some people when they lose their dreams they put a bottle in their hand. Some people find a giant sheet of rock in the middle of the sand.”

Trivia ~ Halfway
I do this song in some live settings with her using some profanity. On the studio album though, I borrowed a page from Cee Lo Green and made it PG. I’ll attach a live version as well. Spoiler alert – skip if you haven’t heard this song. It seems she is going to commit suicide but she has no intention of that. She’s only come halfway. The road ahead shines. My kind of girl.