"Always Forward" Sightings

¹I haven't blogged much about music lately, but thought I would point out a few exciting things about the "Always Forward" CD. One song from the album, "Satisfied," was chosen to be included on the Catholic Music 2008² 2-disc compilation. Yesterday I received my copy in the mail, and it's a great collection of Catholic tunes. I was surprised to find out that I was track 2 on the first CD, following my favorite band, Ceili Rain³!

In other exciting music news, I traveled to Kansas City for two concerts last weekend. One at the Holy Grounds Coffeehouse on beautiful Benedictine⁴ campus, and another at my home parish, St. George Catholic Church, in Odessa, MO. It was great to be home and perform with my sister. She has such a beautiful voice! And I even got my father and my wife up for a few songs.

My last bit of news makes me feel like the CD is really "official", since it is now available for purchase through iTunes⁵. You can download just the tracks you want, which is a feature of iTunes I've always love. Although, I still recommend getting the CD from my website⁶, because you get the cool artwork and all the lyrics. :)

And watch out: if you find my album on iTunes⁷ and click on my name, it will look like I have four albums⁸. I don't. There's another Joel Stein, who's a singer / songwriter from NYC, and Apple thinks we're the same artist. And for a further point of confusion, he has an album called Please Forward. That's just too weird.