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BiTS: I’ll tell you what I'll offer to do for you, I shall be publishing this interview a
little later, but I'll do a review of the book for you as well.

JM: Exquisite. Thank you. I actually published the memoir in 2019, and I'm in

development right now. We're adapting the book into a limited series.

BiTS: Oh, wow, really. This sounds like I’ve got an exclusive here [laughs].

JM: [Laughing] You know what, you do. In the UK right now, I believe you're the

first person across the pond that I'm telling that to. Yeah, we're in development right
now for that, and that's a long game.

BiTS: That’s absolutely terrific.

JM: Thank you. Yeah, stay tuned for that.

BiTS: Oh, yes. That’s not a problem. That's what I was going to do anyway.

JM: Right. Wonderful.

BiTS: Okay, let's talk about the new record, which is called “Back For Me”. How long
was it in production for?

JM: Not terribly long. A few months really. Pre-production, which I include in that

‘production’ category, always starts
months before, panning for gold, mining
for songs, looking for material, whether

it's other people's songs or songs that
I’m working on and crafting. Probably
two and a half, three months.

BiTS: That's not very long at all.

JM: In terms of recording, once we get
the tracks, once we get the songs

decided, then we go in and record, and
we always record more than we're
going to put out because somebody's

got to die. [Laughs] Somebody's got to
die, that's the way we put it. Yeah, we

always record more than we actually
put on the record just because it needs
to have a good flow to it and make the best sense. We never really know what we're
going to get until we're done tracking and then make the decisions accordingly.

BiTS: I've listened to the record twice and I think it's absolutely fabulous. Although
I do have to say that the tracks which I think are outstanding are those where you've
got guests playing guitar for you, especially the Jesse Dayton track, which I think is

absolutely wonderful.