The process of making an album is often time consuming and tedious, with countless hours spent brainstorming prior to even stepping foot in a studio. As Chris Young is preparing to release his seventh album Losing Sleep tomorrow, October 20th, he has certainly spent hours upon hours on the process of making albums over his career…“You put all this investment in it and then you’re like oh my god okay it’s done and I hope people love it. It’s just such a crazy crazy thing to go from blank sheets of paper all the way through to an album.” Fans might wonder, do songs change or even lose meaning after working on them for so long? Chris says…“I don’t know if your feelings for songs ever change you know when you’re going in to make a record as an artist, you love the songs. When you actually call everything down and figure out exactly what you’re cutting, you know you love the songs, but during the process of recording sometimes things shift or change subtly and you don’t really have a chance to let it sink in.” One can say that with all the time Chris has spent making music, he has definitely lost some sleep during the process. Fans can appreciate his hard work and dedication and listen to tracks like “Hangin’ On”, “Where I Go When I Drink”, and title track “Losing Sleep” when his new album Losing Sleep arrives tomorrow, October 20th.
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Chris Young talks about living with an album after it’s completed. (1:23)
“I don’t know if your feelings for songs ever change you know when you’re going in to make a record as an artist, you love the songs. When you actually cull everything down and figure out exactly what you’re cutting, you know you love the songs, but during the process of recording sometimes things shift or change subtly and you don’t really have a chance to let it sink in cause you’re in there, you’re tracking the record you’re making the songs you want to make them as great as possible you go through all the mixing process and you’re going to nitpick little tiny things of like what this guitar part did and which one I loved the best and what pass of the vocal you like and then you get to the process of the album is out there and people are listening to it and telling you what they think and you know you’re launching the record and you’re doing that… so you don’t really get to sit back and go, ‘alright I’m going to listen to this project with fresh ears’ for a long time. So I think that’s always the weird process of making a record is you put all this investment in it and then you’re like ‘oh my god okay its done and I hope people love it’ and other people are telling you what they like, you kind of have to come back to the project after a little bit, you have to let it sit and then go listen to it again…and that’s fun. It’s just such a crazy crazy thing to go from blank sheets of paper all the way through that album and then get away from it and then come back and listen, you might hear it a different way.”