TEST TIME by Happy Chichester

I want to thank a lot of people, you’re maybe one of them, for helping me finish this album. It would have been finished a whole lot sooner had trouble not busted through our front door without knocking. The pandemic taught me that a compassionless society is a cheap, shabby ghetto, but compassion is the wealth of the world. Congratulations if you're making it through all the societal traumas since then, as well. Mostly, I need to thank Laura, my wife, my life, my love and muse. We were just coming back from social distancing when Laura was diagnosed with cancer. We focused together on healing, dealing with it, and getting through it alive and thriving. While she did the hard work of treatment and managing side effects I provided care. We've come through a lot of stuff. We hope you’re getting through what you’re going through, too. This album has a couple songs I wrote for Laura, and every time we would drive the forty minutes or so to the clinic she would listen to those songs preparing for the difficult chemotherapy and radiation treatments she faced. For example, she would crank up Pocket Messiah to the sky, verse one recounting the day we first met: “oh when you walked into the room..” This album has plenty of other good songs too, but that one is her favorite, with the bass and the big drums. I hope the strength she got from this music extends to you, beloved listener, and to anybody that needs it.

– Happy

He’s performed on Fallon & Kimmel, played in bands exhibited in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, & was asked to join Foo Fighters.

Happy Chichester is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, & producer from Columbus, OH. An original founding member of Royal Crescent Mob & Howlin' Maggie, he has amassed an impressive discography on independent & major labels including Sire, Columbia, & Elektra.

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