Hey Tedster,
Thanks for your post. It's an honor to have you on board. The short answer is soon and yes. I don't want to set an expectation and have it not be met. There are all kinds of things out of the artists control. If it was up to me alone, I'd put the album out tomorrow. But thats just me. We are on schedule to have the album mastered this week. Mark Nathanson and I put a long day in today (Sunday) among many at Jet City Studios in preparation. The artwork is ready to go once we've finalized the mastering and amended the credits, we should be ready to go to pressing.
As far as a tour goes, there will be selected shows to support the album at first. Then we'll take it from there. I've kept my chops up by sitting in with Mitch Perry, Andy Walo, who have their own bands and a few others. A number of musicians who have cut tracks on my album have expressed interest in playing live with me. The live band will have 2 lead guitarists. Kurt James and Vernon Anderson have spoken with me about this. There will be a live band. You can count on it! I'll leave it at that.
Stay Strong!
Nt