Brand new rewrite, brand new production, and brand new demo. Country to the core!

We’ll lock the door, turn out the light.
Turn the radio, and us up on high....we all need more slow dances.

This is the second spoken word mix I was asked to record. It will be pitched for an upcoming project in Nashville.

Written with friends John Bizzack and Rik Shafer we originally wrote this song a few years ago. A couple of months ago my publisher had a request from a producer for a sassy female song, so I did a rewrite and tracked a fresh new demo. I could not be happier with the result.

I was asked to pitch a recitation song to someone who is an iconic legend in Nashville and to country music. This is something totally new for me. Between my publisher, my producer, and myself we came up with two songs to track and this is the first one that was just completed.

Music is, was, and probably always will be an often brutal and thankless career path for most musicians and songwriters. Lots of work for not much money would be way too simple of a summation because for serious songwriters and musicians, the emotional toll of trying to forge a path in music proves to be emotionally unbearable from time to time. For most, money is secondary to their passion, but rejection after rejection and the creeping feeling that the sacrifice, expense, and work won’t ever amount to anything is often so damaging that it makes even the most promising question themselves. Learning to cope with disappointment is not an option if you love making music and want to share it with people and that in a nutshell explains the reason for writing this song. A reminder that writing is supposed to be fun.

This song was originally written by songwriter Jeff Goffman, who graciously allowed me to contribute and hopefully impact the listener by creating a greater awareness of the sacrifices made by all American veterans, both living and fallen.

This song will forever be one of my favorite story songs that I have written. The first demo on this was tracked about 15 years ago, and was pretty heavy with fiddle and steel. Today we finished this new piano demo to pitch to artists like Randall King and Cody Johnson.

Are you a regular sinner, or considered a saint?