This is another one of those songs where I woke up in the morning with the tune, complete with the words 'waiting for the sun,' in my head. I sang it right away into my iPhone voice recorder to capture the feel and gate behind the song 'right now'. I put the recording aside until probably a few months later when I rediscovered it.

I the beginnings of Waiting For the Sun on my voice recorder, along with a few other little song ideas of mine that I found. I still liked it and thought it was important to get it done. I worked really hard on this particular song. It seemed so easy and folky but I didn't want to be lazy and get lured into singing lyrics that weren't really happening for me. I wrote and re-wrote little phrases over and over until I got something that had meaning for me and yet sounded natural and 'real'. I feel I was successful.

One day while I was recording some parts for my song, I found myself musing about another song lurking somewhere in the recesses of my memory – a song that I thought might have some kind of connection with Waiting For the Sun. I couldn't remember the name of the song or who performed it, so I Googled a line or two that I thought I remembered from the song. I came up with "A Summer Song" by Chad and Jeremy. I had forgotten about them.

When I heard the song again for the first time in many years, it felt like this was the essence of the sound and sentiment that I was going for in my own tune, Waiting For the Sun. The Chad and Jeremy song became a kind of template for the glistening, breezy sound I was after. It was a simple folk song, but I needed to bring in a few things – like those percolating synth parts – to capture the feel I was after.