Posting yesterday slipped my mind on account of the Tennessee Titans’ miraculous throttling of the Baltimore Ravens, but I’m back and in it to win it.

So, “wake up with the sun,” the new Climb The Sky single, out 1/17.

If you followed my short-lived weekly song project, you’d have endured a profoundly mediocre incarnation of this song, performed by an ass in a red fedora. Oh, life.

Version 2.0 is, well, better. We kept my original verses and choruses, but the fleet-of-fingy bridge - the coolest part of the song - is Gid’s. The arrangement is also all Klein bros (Gabe, it turns out, is a gifted accordionist, because that’s a thing that people are).

“wake up” is our first truly collaborative effort. I realized that if this band was going to get off the ground, I needed to invite Gid and Gabe into my world and trust them to be brilliant.