JOSH BLOG: Progress!!
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April 19, 2010
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Hey, everybody, coming at ya on a very gloomy late afternoon. It’s Sunday. Just came back from Lagoona. Took my Grandma out for sort of a late birthday lunch. I was in New York for a week, so I missed her 90th Birthday. And we took her out and we had an amazing time, and she’s a sweetie, and we had a good time. And it’s been kind of an eventful last three days. So, I thought I would fill you in on what’s been happening.

Thursday night, I had a blast singing with my Pals and Lady Antebellum. An amazing band! Great songs, just great voices. They are the whole package and they are just so nice and I feel like, it’s always great to kind of run into a group of people who are in it for all the right reasons and so we bumped into each other on a few occasions and they said, you know, we’d love for you to sing a song with us on stage, and so I picked this song, Hello World, which is, I felt, like the song that was most in my wheelhouse to do with them, and it went great. So for all of you who came out that night, thanks a lot, and if you didn’t I’m sure it’s on YouTube.

What else? Then Friday, I got to the GLEE set early morning and was there until about 2:30 to 3:00 in the morning the next day. Again, it was a super fun day. To be able to act with Olivia Newton-John and Jane Lynch, it doesn’t get any better than that. I am playing myself. I am playing a very exaggerated version of myself. I’m not Josh Groban, I’m JOSH GROBAN. And. . . which is fun, which is cool. Other than that, you are just gonna have to find out. . . how that goes (spoken really softly). And then, and the cast of GLEE is super nice, so it was really, really cool to see how, you know, how successful everyone has become and just kind of all, I think, coping with the incredible explosion, and all the good, and chaos that comes with that. But it seems like they are handling it really, really well. And it was very much an honor to be back on the set. It’s a very cool show and we had fun.

Ad then the next day, uh, which was my favorite day, was all day in the studio. We did an incredible orchestra session yesterday. And you know, we are really saving the best songs for last. We are in the home stretch. We’ve got another long session tomorrow and then after that, we really need just one more session, and then we’re ready to mix. So, you know, I’m hoping to have all vocals and all instrumental stuff done by like the end of May. And then mix. And then be done. I’m doing the photo shoot for the album I think in a couple of weeks, and I go to New York for that. I have a great photographer that I am excited about and I’ll share that with you at another time, who I am going to do that with. And, so yeah, it seems half the time, I’m saying like thanks for your patience and then like all of a sudden (he snaps fingers) it starts happening like really quickly, and uh, you know when people are starting to Twitter, uh, I found a Josh Groban song. Wow! That’s a blast from the past. I’m like, okay, time to go out and get more music out there now. So, it’s almost done. We are gonna have a crap-load of songs done, once we get it all down, and I'm, you know, really excited about starting up again and getting out there. And you know, if the energy is anything like, you know, what it was when I came out with Lady Antebellum, which was amazing, I didn’t expect that kind of reaction, and it’s gonna be a really fun year, and I know that for as long as it’s taken to get this done, is that much more energized I’m gonna be to get out there and do it.

So, I’m rambling as I always tend to do when we hit the four minute mark. Uhmm but just, you know, uhm. . . Oh, I totally forgot! Last night I inducted my Ear, Nose and Throat doctor, Dr. Ed Canter, who is an incredible guy here in Beverly Hills, into the I guess you would call it the LACHSA Champion of the Arts kind of Hall of Fame thing, honoring him. He is an incredible guy. He has given a huge amount of money to my old High School, the Los Angeles High School for the Arts. Did that at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles and I got to introduce Bob Newhart and Natalie Cole. How cool is that?! I didn’t sing, just ‘cause I’m exhausted, but it was fun to be there, and support that great cause.

There is so much news coming up. I’ve got HUGE news about my foundation coming up very, very soon. Probably right when the album is done, I will drop some of that news on ya. But I’m shooting a new movie next week. I’ll tell you more about that soon, but we’re shooting next week. It’s a comedy. A big comedy. And I’ve got a role where I play a lawyer. I don’t know if they are gonna make me cut my hair for that or not, but . . . it should be fun.

Anyway, I hope you are having a nice Sunday. And I just wanted to fill you in and let you know that things are moving, which I’m excited about. . . Do be in touch. Byeeeeee.


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