"Real thing" is the first single from the upcoming new CD from the Johnny Hawthorn Band. This recording project has been taking more then the usual amount of time to complete. Here's some back story...PHASE 1 – February 2010 - The project didn’t start out as a “new CD” but rather “let’s record a couple of songs” type of deal. My friend (producer/engineer) Charlie Pollard has an amazing studio in the hills of Malibu(Creekside Studio’s). I wrote a couple of songs and we tracked the basic instruments (Mike Sauer/drums, Steve Heidtmann/bass). Since there was no rush (and I was busy on the road) it took a few months to finish the overdubs, vocals and mixes. The two songs “Real Thing” & “Find my way” sounded great and everyone was happy.PHASE 2 – Fast forward to December 2010 Charlie asked me if I had anymore songs that I wanted to track (I had three songs I was working on) and I replied “Yes!”. He mentioned that he was friends with drummer Greg Bissonette (David Lee Roth, Ringo Starr) and his bass play