"I'm listening back to these songs for the first time in a while. My initial thought is that they're pretty good. I was definitely going through something when I wrote and sung these songs, it sounds like a different person to me now. Maybe a braver person.

These songs were all recorded in one night on or near March 28, 2006 at the apartment in Nashville where I was living. My roommate David Bedenbaugh (another songwriter, check him out) let me use his computer and microphones. He set everything up and then left to go play tennis or something so I went through all the songs. It probably sounds more like a show I would have played during that time than anything else. More high energy than these days for sure.

The record before this was 12 Songs and I think I was trying to do something in the spirit of those songs but be a little more ambitious. I think what came out was a combination of a lot of my favorite artists, namely Bob Dylan (especially his first few sparse recordings), Rich Mullins, Derek Webb, Weezer and Pedro the Lion. It seems like all the "Christian" artists around that time were cussing suddenly so I was trying to fit in (which I've since corrected with my most recent record).

I do remember some of the things that were going through my mind around that time. I had moved to Nashville about 4 years earlier with a dream to be a contemporary Christian singer songwriter. That dream was getting some real world beatings and I think I was personally getting tired of whatever I had been hoping for in that kind of career. I remember feeling like I was probably too honest to be a Christian artist (which shouldn't make sense). I think that dream was dissolving though at one time it was definitely VERY real.

The title was inspired by G.K. Chesterton. I was reading his book Orthodoxy (I spelt that word wrong on the cover) which is partly about the author rediscovering his faith unexpectedly. He said this: "I am the man who with the utmost daring discovered what had been discovered before. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy." I took that quote and spun it for my own wicked scheme (though I probably felt more similar to what he said than to what I said).

I will say this though, it's weird when you are trying very hard to be a sincere Christian artist and most of the people who listen to you aren't into that kind of music. I think I was feeling lost in my own musical world. So sad, huh?

Listening back I think some of these songs are some of the best I've ever written. And some are flat out embarrassing. : ) Still, I am not against getting money from people who want to download the songs."

- Jeff Grant on Heresy (8/25/2010)