Winter's Mostly Black -Original Song
- nickjmuhlbauer

- Jun 19, 2021
- 1 min read
Updated: Oct 14, 2021
I was driving to work one morning when this little annoying thought came into my mind "It's dark when I wake up in the morning and it's dark when I get off work at night." "Winter isn't white, it's black! It's always night time in the winter!" I thought this to myself in the car. ....I was bumming on the fact that I was never getting to see the sunshine because I was spending the entirety of the daylight hours at work. Well, there you have it, subject matter for a song -one of the first songs I ever wrote.
I've been pretty distant about making art lately and was feeling kind of bad about it. I think that is pretty typical of me, just in general and even more so when Spring and Summer come around. Album art has kind of been the only art I have been even remotely interested in making lately. I've learned not to force things. At some point the bottom finally falls out and I have to create something... anything! Well, that is where the artwork below came from. It came down to an absolute need to finally create something. On to the next??
...Sometimes, I think, the hardest part of creating is continuing to find inspiration. Gotta dig deep sometimes!
I hope you enjoy the new art and the old recording..




Love the melody and guitar picking in this piece Nick. Remember that, just as death gives life meaning, so too, does winter make us appreciate the summer all the more!