Hello everyone, Kirk here, recording in my new home studio, into which I have fully moved

and in which I will be making strong songs for the foreseeable future. It is so good,

I am so excited. I'll be sharing a video documenting the process of building it over on the Patreon, and I'll probably post some pics to Instagram or wherever at some point if you want to see it. But for now, just, yeah, I'm very psyched. I haven't had a place to work like this ever in my entire life, so it may have taken us a year and a half to build it, but really

it's the culmination of a much longer dream. I am still working on season seven of the show,

so I've got another older episode for you all. Before we get into that, a quick music recommendation.

A listener recently reached out about having me on his radio show to chat some

about David Sanborn, the recently late great saxophonist, and it got me listening back to some

of Sanborn's early stuff. The track I want to recommend is off of his 1975 solo debut,

Taking Off. It's a tune called Duck Ancles, and it's so good.

Sandborn often gets unfairly maligned for some of the smoother R&B stuff that he recorded

in the 80s and onward in his career.

But the guy could really play.

He started playing with Albert King when he was still in his teens,

and he basically never stopped playing saxophone.

He spent the 70s and the 80s in the studio with basically every great musician of those decades,

and taking off was his solo debut.

He was 30 years old when he recorded it.

And it is just a who's who of killing 70s players.

Steve Gad is on drums, Joe Beck on guitar, Don Grolnik on piano.

The Brecker brothers, Michael and Randy, are both on this track.

Randy does his trademark affected kind of wah trumpet thing.

Michael Brecker crushes it on this record, of course.

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