This continuing story (“Night Moon”) was starting to depress me so I needed to have some fun with it. This is song #8 for FAWM 2026. Looks like I forgot song #7. I’ll have to slip that in.
The photo is from the Lincoln Park Supper Club onboard our sailing of Star of the Seas, with a Chicago 1930s Jazz theme of food, cocktails, and music.
Song #6 is “Tequila, Take Me Home.” I wrote a song with this same title during my first FAWM (2018) but felt compelled to rewrite it, which may or may not be part of the concept album. The main character in “Night Moon” feels like I do in Florida – homesick. Is that why she sleepwalks? Or is there more to it than that?
In song #5, “The Dress,” our story continues with our sleepwalker headed for some trouble. Love how one FAWMER describes it, “Comes in like a train!”
Mixed in headphones.
I thought I’d take a break from the “Night Moon” album and do something fun – this one is from a #badsongclub prompt “Made You Look.”
Mixed in headphones.
When we moved to New Smyrna Beach right before my first FAWM in 2018, we’d landed in a tiny apartment while our house was being built. Okay, it was two bedrooms but coming from our Vegas house, our stuff was crammed in there. Besides some storage, we had to put the bedroom dresser in the dining room, the book case in the bathroom, music studio and home office in the extra bedroom, etc.
Anyway, I felt claustrophobic and started writing a story I was calling “Tiny Apartment.” The premise was about a woman who was getting odd messages from strangers like “You were great last night” etc. She didn’t realize she was sleepwalking. Anyway, I put that aside and just dug it out for the Nov/Nov writing challenge. I started stalling on the story so I wrote an outline of sorts listing songs I might write for FAWM to help me with the plot. This is song #3 “Second Date.”
Mixed in headphones.
Song #2 for FAWM (February Album Writing Month) continues the theme of song #1, “Night Moon.” and is called “Woman in Black.”
Funny thing about the “Sazerac” line. I’d jotted down some lyrics while writing about a woman who sleepwalks and ends up in a place called the “Night Moon.” Later, when we were sailing on “Star of the Seas,” Lou’s Jazz Club had a drink called the Jazzy Saz, a play on Sazerac. Maybe it’s a thing now.
Mixed in headphones.
As part of Nov/Nov (the replacement for NaNoWriMo), I started writing a novel called “Night Moon” last November. And as I was writing, I began imagining an album. This is my focus for FAWM (February Album Writing Month) this year.
As a bit of background, the story is about a married woman who sleepwalks and ends up in a place called the “Night Moon.” You can sign up for news of its release here.
This is the title song, “Night Moon.”
Mixed in headphones.
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