"Love is a Weekend" - A song about the Pain of "Long Distance" Love

This is a picture from an audio recording app on my phone.

It was over 5 years ago.
I was sitting in my office in downtown Jonesboro after a long day at work and something interesting popped into my head.

It was a piece of music.
I picked up my guitar and started fumbling through this weird finger picked thing and tried to get it out of my head and on to paper.

At the time I was thinking a lot about a good buddy of mine who had been living through a long distance relationship (to a girl he is now happily married to) and what that probably was like (I had been through it before with my now wife and it was both happy and hard). The lyrics to the first verse and chorus were done in just a few minutes and something about this song just stuck with me over all of the others (I literally write music all the time and just throw most of it away).

And then… life kind of got in the way of being a musician.

A failed business relationship. Daily Work. A pandemic. It all made being in a band really hard… so I didn’t. But over the next few years, I watched alot of bands. I have made alot of good friends who are great musicians, performers, and songwriters. They kept inspiring me to get back to being a musician and play music with my band.

And something about this silly song about “long distance relationships” kept bugging me.

At the beginning of 2022, I started working with 2 of my favorite musicians again… Eric Sullinger and Dereck George. We started working through some songs and looking for our fourth member. And then my brother (Nick) reminded me that an old friend, Aaron Meyer… was a pretty talented musician. So.… we invited him to play (he’s a badass and such a good human) and started fumbling around with a few songs together and then… we focused on this “love is a weekend” thing.

Last night we wrapped the tracking for the song and this thing is coming out… finally.

When we recorded the final vocals… I got a bit emotional. I didn’t see it coming but completing this song unlocked something in my head that I didn’t realize was bothering me.

All that said…

You can now listen to "Love is a Weekend" on your Favorite streaming service.

This little song has been on quite the journey and it is a piece of me that I will always be thankful for… that I now get to share with all of you.
This song is my love letter to some good friends who gracefully handled a long distance relationship early in their time together.

This is my love letter to the musicians that I’ve spent hours with over the last 5 years… they kept my head in it.

This is My love letter to my band (thank you for helping me shape this song into something more than I could ever do on my own). You all are so incredibly talented and I’m so lucky to get to play and write with you.

This is my love letter to a musician inside of me that I told myself wasn’t important for too long.

This is my love letter to anyone who has struggled to believe that their passion isn’t worth sharing.

This is the start of something. This is my summer song and I hope it can be yours too.

(P.S. I still love this first demo recording of the song and love getting to hear where this all started anytime I want.)