Kisses in the Wind

Notes on the songs on “Kisses in the Wind":

[While this shows prices for the individual songs and for the whole CD, that is there because the website program had it. Feel free to fully listen to any/all of these songs as well as download any of them. Pay if you want - I will donate proceeds to charities such as our church youth group, Cross Roads Camp & Retreat Center (a joint operation of the ELCA and Episcopal churches in NJ), or the Franklin Food Bank (Franklin Two, NJ). Or you can decide to donate to a charity you like and just tell me what it is. Please - nothing political.].

You’ve Set a New World Record (for Breaking My Heart - I wrote this after getting a ‘prompt’ from the songwriting group that I’m in for the word “record”. A typical broken-heart song.

A Kind of Redemption - Love can help redeem us.

Along the Great Divide - From another songwriting prompt. We need to try and come together.

Ashtabula - While driving along the local canal where they were installing a new water treatment plant, I say a barge named “Ashtabula”. Since I never got a chance to stop and ask why it was named after a city in Ohio, I decided to make up my own story, resulting in this song.

Born to the Soil - Came up with this from another prompt about dirt. Decided to try a bluesy style, which worked for it.

Storm Comin’ In - I was watching a storm building outside my home studio, so I decided to write about it.

Let’s Write a Love Song - Another prompt lead to this song. Paul McCartney is right that there can never be enough love songs.

In Transit - I love riding the train into New York City or wherever. I came up with this song using the train rides as a metaphor for life.

Rise - While writing “Born to the Soil”, I also came up with “Rise” as a song about those who work hard to raise crops. It just felt like it needed to be a cappella and with an Appalachian mountain feel.

Kisses in the Wind - Not sure where this came from, but the idea of love coming on the wind just was something I had to write about.

This is Springtime - Another ‘prompt’ song. Just wanted to sing about the loveliness of Spring outside my studio window and this came out.

Steal Away, My Lovely One -Wanted to do this as something that felt like an old English ballad.