Richard Okimoto is letting us reprint his interview with Derek:

Derek Webb interview transcript
02/04/2005

me: We’ll start with song order. I know when you put a record together you put a lot of time into thinking which song goes where. I was wondering if you could talk about that, and especially the first two songs on Mockingbird.

dw: For me, typically, when you get done recording songs, there’s just an order that makes sense. We’ll sequence it a few different ways typically. We’ll sit down and say, “what is the obvious? What just makes sense about the order of these songs?” What do we want to say first, and then how do we want to pace it out. You don’t want to put too much heavy stuff, and you want songs that are similar spread out on the record. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle. And, typically, after you work on it for a couple weeks, and you really think about it, there’s just a sequence… there’s typically just a magical sequence that just happens. And once you get that, then you say, okay, I wrote that down, we’ve got that. Now we start over. And you blow that all apart, and try it totally some other way, and see if there’s maybe a cooler approach. But on Mockingbird, there was just a sequence that made sense. It just paced out a certain way, to where I thought people could deal with it little by little.

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A little birdie told us that Derek will be on the cover of the May/June 2006 issue of Relevant.

We will be holding a contest for best Photoshopping of this cover photo onto the image of Fonzie jumping the shark. [Okay, we're only kidding about that.]

In case you hadn’t seen it yet: Derek Webb and Don Miller will be together in a live audio chat on Tuesday, March 14th, 2006. The chat is put together by INO Records [Derek's label] and Thomas Nelson [Don's publisher]. As we’re behind the whole [donmillerfans.net] dealio, you can bet that we’ll be around to ask silly questions. Hope to see you there!