Volume 13 - Rockin' the Afterlife

Volume 13 - Rockin' the Afterlife wraps up my catalog of music. It's another concept album that didn't begin that way. It was just like Volume 12 in that I wrote all the songs independently of each other, but after the tenth song, when I sat down to write the lyrics, it became a concept album.

Song #1, Soul of Liberty is about life after death, but in the form of reincarnation. I do not necessarily believe in reincarnation. But the words were about that, so I went with it. And just like for the songs in Volume 12, each ensuing song became another song about that general theme.

It's a very controversial theme, I know, but it lasted right up to the final song on the album, Looking Back. Actually, both the music and the lyrics turned out to be very compelling. And just like for Volume 12, it's quite an adventure to sit and listen to this album, no matter how many times I have already. Sure there is mention of God, Heaven, Hell, different religions, and alternate realities. 

The bottom line is I don't care what anyone's religion is, or if they have or don't have one at all. But what is sure to come in everyone's life is death, as song #8 Sideways makes clear. And what happens at that point or after that point is basically what the lyrics are about. Come to think of it, the songs on this album explore that topic very deeply. 

So the playlist is as follows:

Soul of Liberty

Living in a Mirror

Not Your Show

Drum Beat

Time in the Sun

Kings Will Rise Up

Now You're There

Sideways

What Did You See

Looking Back

And Volume 13 in its entirety is already posted on SoundCloud. Just check the right margin of this blog. I had said I planned on posting all of my thirteen albums on there. And at this point volumes 8 through 13 are now up and running. (I just put Volume 8 on there this morning.) Just have to get 2 through 7 on there next, which I will in the very near future.