Bloodhound

Our previous album, Little Flock, was deeply spiritual. Even the album title is a term Jesus used to refer to his followers. The sheep/shepherd metaphor blanketed most of the 11 tracks. 

Kiddo is less spiritual as a whole, which I think is representative of my faith walk since that album came out. It has felt a little more distant and a little less fertile. Anyway, Bloodhound is a spiritual tune, and the most aggressive rock song I’ve written in a long time.

It depicts Christ as a bloodhound, pursuing me. It explores the dichotomy of comfort and creepiness, being known *intimately* by the Creator of all. 

I remember tracking vocals for this song in Salt Lake CIty in June of 2020. We were camped on kind of a mountain top parking lot used for paragliding. We were in southern UT a day before, where it was over 100 degrees, but in Salt Lake, it was sleeting. I had just bought a new microphone, and I was testing it on out Bloodhound. It felt great to let loose and shout my way through the song. It was shortly after the murder of George Floyd. Peaceful protesters were being assaulted by cops. I was mad and felt helpless, so I blew off some steam during that recording session.

After the recording session, my voice was nearly gone. I couldn’t end up keeping the vocal take because the sound of sleet on the RV roof was pretty loud. But when it came time to do the final take, I tried to emulate the passion that I captured in that earlier take.