Edwin McCain

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script type="text/javascript" src="http://hb.lycos.com/hb.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ratings.lycos.com/ratings/lycosRating.js.php"></script> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[//><!]]></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://scripts.lycos.com/catman/init.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-start.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-middle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-end.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/img/common/ot_noscript.gif?rand=850682" alt="" width="1" height="1" />  <iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90" src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=728x90&section=209094"></iframe>  </noscript> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=125 BGCOLOR="#AAAAAA" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03c467d1euxmic.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Kristi Singer</b></FONT><B>     </b><B>|     </b><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kristi Singer"><U><B>home</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id171.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Emma Gibbs Band"><U>Emma Gibbs Band</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id160.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Erykah Badu"><U>Erykah Badu</U></A>   |   <B>Edwin McCain</b></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Edwin McCain</div> <div> Article published Jun 26, 2003</div> <div> <B>Far from over</b></div> <div> <B>Edwin McCain adjusting to life as a 'recovering musician'</b></div> <bR> <div> Platinum-selling singer/songwriter Ed-win McCain will travel to Liverpool in August to record demos for 30 new songs for his next studio project.</div> <div> The 30 tunes accumulated while Mr. McCain was on the road and through collaborations with guitarist Pete Riley, who performs with Mr. McCain.</div> <div> The South Carolina native is particularly excited about the song Say Anything, which he co-wrote with Mr. Riley and Mia Sharp in San Jose, he said during a phone interview from Memphis, Tenn.</div> <div> "It's a duet with Mia, and she's such an incredible artist," Mr. McCain said. "She's been on tour with Art Garfunkel, just an absolute magician. I look forward to people hearing that song. We're trying to decide right now if it will be a soundtrack song or actually go on this next album."</div> <div> Mr. McCain received interest from Universal to shop the song to its soundtrack department.</div> <div> "I don't know what'll end up happening with that," he said. "I just always cross my fingers and hope."</div> <div> His optimism has paid off. Over the years, Mr. McCain has appeared on numerous soundtracks for films, including Message in a Bottle, Twister and Bounce.</div> <div> Mr. McCain also revealed that his newly penned song Three Whirling Dervishes "probably said too much." Hot off the songwriting presses, he wrote the song only 48 hours before this interview.</div> <div> "It's an overview of my experience going from being a starry-eyed teenager to being a 33-year-old recovering musician," Mr. McCain said of the song.</div> <div> A "recovering musician" is someone who's "been through the ride," Mr. McCain explained.</div> <div> "Anybody who's been through the ride --the unnatural state of being of getting on the radio and having that sort of whirlwind life," Mr. McCain said. "It's like five years disappear and you have no idea what happened to them. It's interesting to reflect back on that, certainly from the perspective I have now. Looking back on all the stuff we've been doing for the last 10 years is sort of the topic, the ups and the downs and the overall ride."</div> <div> The "ups" of his career include the two hours he gets to perform at night when "the music kind of plays you." His "downs" include sitting in hotel rooms and being away from home. And too many interviews can make him crabby, he said, especially when he's asked the boxers or briefs question.</div> <div> "You wouldn't believe some of the inane stuff people ask," Mr. McCain said. "You can always tell when someone's been doing interviews all day cause they get a little crabby, like me, a little crusty around the edges. It's weird when you're your business. It's you, you're you, your business is you and it's kind of like that Matthew Sweet song - I'm Sick of Myself."</div> <div> Although he's had his ups and downs, Mr. McCain's ride, like the title of his last studio album, is Far From Over.</div> <div> His newest album, The Austin Sessions, released in February on the independent Nashville label ATC Records. It was Mr. McCain's first release since parting ways with Atlantic Records.</div> <div> While on Lava/Atlantic, Mr. McCain released 1995's Honor Among Thieves, 1997's Misguided Roses, 1999's Messenger and Far From Over in 2001. Mr. McCain had chart success with the Top 10 hit I'll Be and the Dianne Warren ballad I Could Not Ask For More.</div> <div> For more on Edwin McCain, log on to www.edwin.com.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>