I call the Free Myself cycle my third act. It is really a departure from the wants and needs of my ambitious twenties and thirties and early forties. Free Myself is a further delve into awakening my spiritual and emotional relationship with myself.
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We wanted it to be a record that people remember us by, and I dare say it’s better than our first album, you know, that’s left for other people to decide, but it’s just one of those records that I’m so proud of. And when you know that you’re making your last record and you don’t have to prove anything to anyone, it’s really easy to write music. We just knew we wanted to make a record to push the boundaries of what Candlebox is known for, and that’s what we did.
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We are so happy because we waited so long, very long, like more than five years for this album. Finally, one of our biggest dreams has come true.
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“It’s like, “Hey, we can’t change or do anything about how you feel about the band for the last 15 years, but here’s what we’re doing now.”
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The whole concept of KC Blackwater as a project is that I was just getting to the point where I was getting so angry and frustrated and annoyed at so many things that it was trying to make me kind of giggle a bit. Like that kind of post-anger laughter where it’s that little bit deranged. And like I said, I wanted to kind of put that essence into audio form. So that’s why the guitars sound so crazy and scratchy and chicken scratch kind of thing. And I wanted the bass lines to sound big and imposing, but in a slightly comedic way.
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