Featured Tracks Playlist April 2024

Next up is, Summer Love from my 2016 CD I’m Gonna Let it Ride. This track was actually written back in the early 80’s but back then I wasn’t able to find the instruments I wanted or heard in my head that I wanted in this track. So as time went, by I found those great sounding strings for the orchestra sections of the track. This is another one of those guitar picking songs. I played all of the guitar work on my Fender acoustic electric. The strings really accent the guitar work on this beautiful ballad. Let’s give Summer Love a listen. 

Next up, is A Walk In The Rain from my 2017 CD 10. This one was almost named relax because of the feeling it invokes when listening to it. This track is a soft beautiful ballad with some beautiful guitar picking played on my Fender Acoustic Electric. The track has a great sounds canvas of strings and soft pianos to fill out the song. On this track there are no drums. I use a baby Grand Piano sound on this track for the melody and chord changes. I love the interplay between the piano and guitar on the melody, chorus and the chord changes of this track. Let’s give A Walk In The Rain a listen. 

Next up is Just Kick Back and Relax from my 2023 CD Life on The Other Side. When I listen to this track I think I should be driving along the coast or walking along a boardwalk, just humming a sweet little melody. On this one I am playing my Martin acoustic electric for all the guitar work. I am playing the Grand Piano sound for the melody and the Rhodes Electric Piano sound is playing the chords. This track is a feel good and relaxing song. Let’s give Just Kick Back and Relax, a listen.   

Next up is Starry Nights With You from my 2022 CD Told Ya. This track is what I call a cool jazz track. It has some very complex chord changes, a cool bass line and a great rhythm section. I’m playing my Ibanez hollow body for all the guitar work on this track. On keyboards, I’m using a Fender Rhodes Electric Piano sound for the chords and I backup the melody using a Grand Piano sound. Let’s give Starry Nights With You a listen.

Next up and the last track in this playlist is Latin Dreams from my 2020 CD Living in Strange Times. I started writing this track while on a cruise of the Mexican Riviera. There was something about that vacation, maybe the locations or the people that moved me to start writing. On this track I mixed a cool Latin Afro drum section with a Modern Soul drum section. I kept this track very clean, with just Drums, Bass Guitar, and my Fender Acoustic Electric Guitar. With its cool drum programming, very complex chord changes and that great melody, this track just seems to float on the wind. I really love this track groove. Let’s give Latin Dreams a listen.