Singled Out: Breathing Blue's A Star in the West

"A Star in the West" is not only the first song on our album but it is also the first song we wrote as Breathing Blue. We started writing it before we had our drummer Jason LaRaia; in fact we did not have a drummer at all at the time and every time we tried someone out�they just couldn't follow along with it. I didn't understand what was so hard to get about it but I guess every drummer that first heard it just couldn't play it, except for Jay of course.

Jay was a past drummer of ours and we parted ways about a year before Breathing Blue. But when Jay and I started writing together again just for fun, I showed him Star and he not only fell in love with our new style immediately, but also started playing exactly what fit perfect. He just knows me and Matt's chemistry so well, we can play something for the first time and he will just know when the next verse of chorus is coming and what it will be like, no matter how different we make it. And that is chemistry that you can never let go of. Ever.

We finally completed the song after already working on several others on the album. Ever since Jay joined and we recruited our bassist Chris Dechert, Star and our other anticipated single "Chase the World" were completed first and then we just knew exactly where we wanted to go with the rest of album. But without Jay hearing the first version of Star, who knows if we would even be Breathing Blue!