Working on completing a new bonus Christmas track to be included with the “Heart of Heaven” CD this year. Working on recording vocals today. Here are the lyrics for your perusal: In the still of the winter With the dawn just a dream Lost in the darkness We look for [...] Read more »
In The Studio
Today I worked on cleaning up vocals for “Love, Real Love”. It takes a lot to clean up my vocals. My vocals need the audio equivalent of Mr. Clean and a stiff brush. So they’re done, and I need to add a few more parts before it’s ready to mix. [...] Read more »
“Love, Real Love”
Working on this song as my attempt to score a spot as background music in the last climatic scene of Grey’s Anatomy/Closer/Hawaii-5-whatever, and so forth, where the dude just realized the chick etc., etc. Not really, but… if you have any connections… Lyrics [+] He may give you what he’s [...] Read more »
“Alas, And Did My Savior Bleed?”
These words by Isaac Watts are grim but true. It’s also the only hymn I know of that had the word “worm” in it, which I was too timid to leave in the fourth line of the first verse (“For such a worm as I”). Fanny Crosby told how this hymn [...] Read more »
“Sail On Sunshine”
I’ve had this song in the hopper for quite a few years; maybe 8. I’ve always thought it was one of the better-constructed lyrics I’ve done, if I say so myself, which I have now done. It’s basically a lullaby, and it veers into the classic country-music-now-the-kids-are-grown-up-where-has-the-time-gone-endings, but I’ll accept [...] Read more »