Author: Josh James

I initially wrote the music for this one in about 2001, but a friend of mine had written lyrics for it. Through the years I have rewritten lyrics to it a handful of times, but it never seemed right. It usually came off as a cheesy love song. It wasn't until I was wrapping up Objects in Mirror that...

I mentioned on a previous post that a new guitar led quickly to a new song. Well, that happened again with "72 Highway". I had just finished building a 12-string guitar and was trying out different sounds with it when I somewhat accidentally switched to a heavily-distorted sound and was pleasantly...

This song came quickly! From the first idea (the acoustic guitar in the intro) to the first demo recording (no lyrics) took just 4 hours. As I listened to that demo, the music just screamed nostalgia. I started thinking of it like a letter to myself from the future, where I tell myself to soak up...

For Christmas in 2021, my wife bought me a DIY guitar kit that I spent the first couple of months in 2022 building, painting, and setting up. It was my first Fender-style guitar--a Jaguar body shape with a Stratocaster pickup configuration. Once I had upgraded all the components, I had a blues...

In the fall of 2013, my wife and I were getting ready for the birth of our first child. We had recently come across a piano, and one day when I was playing what I felt (like a stream of consciousness), the chord progression for the verses just came out. It was fun to play, but words also came...

This song came to me when I was standing in right field during one of my son's baseball games. I was thinking back to those days when I was a kid who spent most of my free time on a baseball field making sure I would be ready when my chance came. Every day it was one of two scenarios--being called...

Shortly after writing Photograph, I began to be more intentional about what kinds of songs I would write. Most of them started with an acoustic guitar (including Photograph--the piano made it complete, and it wasn't until the Objects in Mirror recording of it that I removed the guitar altogether....