Every song on Free Delivery found its final form the same way: by trial and error. With Zona, you describe the sound you're after, press a button, and listen to what comes back. Sometimes it misses entirely. Sometimes it's close, but not quite right. And every so often it lands on the arrangement you've been hearing in your head for nearly forty years.
But the versions that weren't "the one" didn't always deserve to be thrown away. Some were too polished for a late-80s CCM record. Some wandered off into styles I never would have chosen on my own. And a few were simply too much fun to delete. That is how Bonus Slices came to be.
So here you'll hear Just A Prayer Away seven different ways, from AOR and 80s prog to Euro synth, New Wave and synth dance. What's Happened To Us turns up as classic rock, blues and Southern rock, on a Telecaster, and in the spirit of Mark Knopfler. Carry A Torch heads to Broadway, then marches, then rocks. Impressions Of You slips into a jazz club and a lounge. Money Management finally gets the punk treatment it may have always deserved. And Free Delivery pairs blues guitar in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan with a gospel church choir, a combination my nineteen-year-old self could never have imagined.
As a drummer, I've always believed you learn the true character of a song when you change the groove underneath it. Hearing the same words carried by so many different rhythms and styles taught me more about these songs than any single version ever could. A few, like Soul Searching 2026 and The Prodigal Revisited, are fresh looks at lyrics from a very old notebook.
None of these are meant to replace the album versions. Think of them as the extra slices that came with the order. Some you'll love, some you'll skip, and a few may surprise you.
