But still the question is - Why can L.A. wait? Mostly because of a few phone calls Tiernan has received the past couple of years. One went like this: "Don't worry Mike, I am Strong". Tiernan hung up the phone and couldn't believe it. Stage 4 cancer, his own brother. 2 years later, as Tiernan was recording tracks in the studio for "Strong", the very song he had written about his brother Joe's battle with the terrible disease, he received another call, this time from the hospital. Joe was passing away. Tiernan played the song for his brother on the last morning of his life. That song, "Strong", is the swirling center of Michael's emotional and inspiring new album, "LA Can Wait".

Yet "LA Can Wait" is not about death, and is certainly not a downer. "LA Can Wait" is actually an incredibly celebratory album that reveres each unique color in the spectrum of life, from birth to death, with the over-arching mandate to appreciate and enjoy every moment in between, as the album's laid back last track, the flip-flop wearing beachy anthem, "Easy", proclaims.

In fact, a cancer-survivor himself, Tiernan penned two of the most tender of love songs, "LA Can Wait" and "Father and Child", inspired by a couple other calls he got - the ones where his wife said, "I'm pregnant". Having been a year away from being ordained a Catholic priest in Rome just several years before, kids were never in the picture. But life changes in an instant, and this new set of Tiernan's tunes are feel-good and sometimes tear-jerking reflections about all the amazing twists of life, especially the unexpected ones.

1. Write Me A Love Song
2. Let Go
3. LA Can Wait
4. You With Me
5. You Make It Easy
6. Father and Child
7. Small Things
8. Strong
9. Dying Tree
10. Here
11. Easy

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 8/4/2012
Michael Tiernan lives in California USA

Tagged as: Alt Rock, Folk-Rock

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