What a week. An amazing residency. 17 classes, 8 great songs. Our assembly with 400 kids tomorrow morning!

Sold 16 CDs our first day! At this rate I will have a solid gold record in only 10 years. That's sooner than when my mortgage will be paid off... I am so excited to share this new cd with my friends and family. I'm also psyched about working on the soundtrack for a documentary about my favorite inventor NIKOLA TESLA! My nephew Alexander came up with a killer piece and Jimmy Leahey orchestrated our song "lightning" which is amazing.

This has been a heck of a music week.  So many things going on and I'm wondering what will come of it all.  I have been working on a score for a potential HBO series with my nephew Alexander.  Got a call about a huge song commission and now am waiting to hear if I get the go ahead.  Was told a ton of my music has made it's way on to some DVD reissues but no one signed the papers yet.  Spent some time recording backing vocals at Trax East for Eryn Shewells latest CD.  I have a live appearance tomorrow night as well.  So...it's back to scoring.  I've got some cool ideas.  Al keeps reminding me that it's the journey that matters.  

The cover art for my new CD.. Sending it out to be printed next week. I'm so excited about this collection of songs and I can't wait to share them with my friends...

I made a little personal history last night as I brought a new CD to mastering.   This was a BEAR of a project.  3 Years in the making.  This was not a band album, it was a personal journey that emerged from the past few years as a singer-songwriter.  Jimmy Leahey and I had a bunch of unfinished pieces lying around in various stages of completion.... I  had also begun writing and recording with Eryn Shewell a few years ago which also got derailed via everyone being sidetracked.   In May I revisited this project and realized that these were amazing songs and they needed to be finished.  I didn't know if I had the energy necessary to make it happen....that's where Al Greene came into the picture.  He spent 100's of hours...and that's no exaggeration, on these tracks.  He added bass where needed, he added drums and percussion where needed, he added piano, he mixed the tracks and the product is stunning.   Via a good friend... we decided to master it at Sterling Sound in Chelsea Market NYC.  An awesome experience.  The sound was incredible.  Steve Fallone is a genius.  Eli was there and got really into it.  Jimmy stopped by as well.   So I spent the evening filling out BMI forms and OK ing the reference tracks.  Now it's a CD design and getting it out.  Whew... 

What an amazing undertaking. In our little musical family my talented nephew composted several pieces for 18 musicians for his final recital in his Arts HS. It was amazing. Now he's off to Eastman.

A few years back, Jimmy Leahey gave me a piece of music and as usual I listened to it a million times until it marinated in my brain.  After a while it wrote itself into the song "Happy Mother's Day".  I think it may be the most honest song I've written in years. 

 Oh baby you arrived today
So tiny and perfect and squirming away
And I hold you for the first time
 You’re so amazing, now what can I say

And we’re tossing and turning and getting no sleep
 Rocking and rolling, trying to get you to eat
 And I’m singing you love songs I’d forgotten for years
I know it’s your day, but it’s my day too

Happy Mothers Day

Come on in now it’s getting dark
Why? Cause I said so, now don’t be so smart
 Then you’re on my back and I’m down on all fours
 And we’re laughing and singing and sharing the chores 

And there’s heartaches and headaches and worries and pain
 Along with the dancing and splashing in the rain
 It’s a life that is full, one that I’d never trade
 If one thing is true, I simply love you

And this is Mothers Day

Oh even when you’re all grown
 This love will be my own
 Through happy and sad, good times and bad
 For now it’s my turn
 To watch your life unfurl
 Wind blowing through your golden curls

I’m at your graduation and you’re soon leaving home
 It’s all that I’d hoped for but I’m not ready at all
 And you smile and say “thanks Mom” and I’m flooded with tears
 Feels like a day, not so many years
 And I call up my Mother and cried on the phone
 Tell her I’m sad and I feel so alone
 And she listens a while says you now understand
 This is your day and it’s my day too
 Happy Mothers Day

I say...Happy Mothers Day

 Happy Mothers Day

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