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Swing is my favorite kind of music.

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push against the beat and kind of explore a triplet feel behind everything just to see what that feels like.

I've been playing swing chords for a long time.

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.

I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something that will most likely end my career.