Paralyzed - Commentary

I had shared my story about losing my speech due to nerve damage. And while I was in recovery, I wrote this song. And when I hear those first couple of notes, it really transports me back into the vulnerability and that step-by-step recovery that I was on in this song. Uhm, when I obviously, I got to record it, I was back to singing, so that was very, very special. But the actual sound of it is the old school throwback "Beatles" and when we first produced it, I couldn't get my main man, uh, Aaron Sterling in. And then as fate would have it, I tried again and, and we said, "You know what, we've got to re-record these drums," so Aaron stepped in and change the whole direction of it and really felt authentic. In recording the vocal at The Village in L.A., we had a vocal chamber that Fleetwood Mac recorded "Tusk" the album in. And in the chamber we played the vocal through a speaker on one side and recorded it on the other side for the natural slap back delay that you hear on the record today.