Hello Friends,

It’s been another busy year in the world of rock-and-roll and I’m pleased to announce that I have a new album close to completion, but I need your help to pull it over the finish line.

Almost exactly a year ago, I decided it was time for me to get to work on my long overdue soul album. I didn’t want to do just any soul album. I wanted to make an album that captured the vibe and spirit of classic 60’s Motown and Stax recordings. I wanted to write soulful, meaningful songs, and approach recording them as if it were still 1966. While we made a few concessions here and there (tape is expensive), that album has now been written, recorded, and mixed. It even has a name. With a working title of simply ‘The Motown Album’, it is now called ‘Things Were Better’.

Now I need your help to have it mastered, packaged, duplicated, and to put a little money in the pockets of the musicians who worked so hard to help me realize my vision.

I’ve teamed up with PledgeMusic to help me see this through and I hope you’ll join us. A pledge will get you an advance download of “Things Were Better” as soon as it’s completed and will keep you in the loop with updates and exclusives available to pledgers only. Since you will be helping to make this album possible, you will be taken on journey through the making of the album, featuring videos and rare tracks, which will bring you inside the studio and show you how this record has come to be.

Not only will your pledge help to ensure that this album sees the light of day but it will also help to support an amazing organization called Blue Star Connection (www.bluestarconnection.org), a charity which raises money to buy musical instruments for children and young adults with cancer and other serious life challenges.

Here’s to heart and soul in 2012.

Thank you with love from me to you,

Zach