antiMUSIC: It's been awhile since your last output. Why the wait?

Nina Gordon: Well, I have been quite busy this whole time-I wrote and recorded a few album's worth of material, and it just took me a while to get it right. Also, I moved to LA from Chicago, fell in and out and back in love again, and have been living my life.

antiMUSIC: You reportedly scrapped some initial tracks with Ethan Johns. Were any of the tracks salvaged or did you start over from scratch?

Nina Gordon: I pretty much scrapped them all, not because I didn't like them-I did-it's just that the mood was a little too slow and sad, and didn't have the spirit that I was hoping for with these songs. So I re-recorded 9 out of 13 songs, and added a few new ones to make up BHG

antiMUSIC: Is there a theme to "Bleeding Heart Graffiti"?

Nina Gordon: Yes. When I was sequencing the album, I realized that there were a lot of references to the seasons of the year, and that the record documents the beginning, middle and end of a romantic relationship, so I tried to sequence it in seasonal and chronological order.

antiMUSIC: What are some of the tracks that came out better than you hoped?

Nina Gordon: I am happy with how all of the songs came out. It was weird because with a lot of these songs, I had done demo versions of them, then recorded them with Ethan Johns, and then a third time with Bob Rock, so it was hard to keep perspective sometimes. But I was really happy how they all took on a new life when I got them right with Bob.

antiMUSIC: You've got a host of excellent musical helping hands on the record. Is this a blessing or a curse, in that they probably help lay down the track really precisely but now you have to go out and get a different band to out on the road; one that has to capture the vibe as accurately as when first created?

Nina Gordon: Well, yeah. I won't be able to assemble THAT group to tour with me, but I will have a bunch of great musicians in my touring band. It's always different on the road, and you don't necessarily always want to recreate exactly what you did on the album.

antiMUSIC: What was it about Bob Rock's production work that agrees with you?

Nina Gordon: This is the 3rd album I have recorded with Bob. We work really well together, especially now, because we have such a rapport. He is really good pushing me to do my best work, and I trust him. I always know I am going to like what I sound like-and he sure knows how to produce a pop song.

antiMUSIC: "Pure" finds you singing in a bit of a lower range for the verses. It's something that really agrees with your voice. Did you purposefully want to mix up the vocal delivery a bit on this record?

Nina Gordon: No, I just wrote the song, and it happens to be a song where the verse is low and the chorus is high. At times I wanted to raise the hey, because the verse is pretty low in my range, but then the chorus was way too high. I didn't try to mix up the vocal delivery-the songs just dictated where I went vocally.

antiMUSIC: What are your plans for the foreseeable future?

Nina Gordon: Well, I am going to promote this album, and then have a baby in November. It's gonna make it tough to tour, but I will do my best-I am really proud of the record, so I don't want to sell it short. That said, I am so happy about having this baby, so it's hard to think about anything else!!

antiMUSIC: Anything else you would like to mention that I didn't ask you about?

Nope, can't think of anything at the moment, but thank YOU