One of my favorite days…random picture for this blog, but made it me smile. This was on Maui 2015, rented a bike and took Mo around the island. I want more days like this in 2021…holding the faith folks!!!
Hey Friends,
I wanted to ADD a thought here to the last blog “Final Gifts”. I misplaced the file and reached out to my good buddy (and old high-school boyfriend) Ken David to retrieve it. The file got sucked up in the vortex of computer audio and technology. Such a wonder sometimes right?
Anyway, I re-listened to it and a BIG SMILE came across my face! This is huge! Some of you may not particularly care for Ken’s version of this song , but I absolutely LOVE the creative place he took this song, so different than my version.
More reasons I love it: There is no bigger compliment than someone taking an interest in your song and re-creating it, giving it different colored wings to fly! I am jazzed that Ken David, a boy I knew since 7th grade, who is an extremely TALENTED musician, took an interest in my song and then did such a cool COMMERCIAL job with it!
This is more radio ready than the original and I love that. I’m not a commercial writer…but what if there are OTHER songs that I have, put into the hands of amazing musicians? Perhaps they could be put out there to the masses simply because they change a few things?! Heck, I’ll take that! Sure! Think John Prine right? He was genius and has so many songs that are fantastic. Look how many folks cover his tunes!
Maybe people will love a commercial version of “Life is Beautiful” or “Only the Lucky” and then they will be tripping along and find my original version? That would be so cool too!
Part of the Joy of music is sharing it. I don’t need to be territorial about my creations. I want to do the opposite and put it out there any way I can, and this is part of it. And YOU ALL get to see and hear this new creation of the “same baby” right? Soooo coool!
What if it went BIG!? Wouldn’t that be so cool!? I just love the idea that I don’t need to be the “motor” that runs the song all the time. Music is much bigger than we are! It transcends even OUR plans for it!
If you asked me 5 years ago where I thought a song would be now, in someone else’s creative process…I would have never been able to tell you Ken David picked up MY song and ran with it, and that Sundae & Mr. Goessl took MY song (“I love my baby better'“) and made it their own and are now playing it all over and put it on their album! That is just thrilling for me!
You may be “married” to the original, and “Yay! You’re my favorite fan, I have a liking to my original as well!”, but the possibilities are endless! This means all the work I do may not die when I die…right? It’s not all for not. That is a truly good feeling.
Give Ken’s version a chance and hear it on the radio…it could be the coolest break-though…or just another lost file! Ha ha!!! The Universe is awesome! Where will the NEXT 5 years take us? Be well friends!
