How is everybody doing? Sorry for this coming out so late.

John and I had big time stomach issues for the last month and are finally getting  better. We never found out what it was but we ate a lot of homemade bone broth which seemed to help. On top of that we've had daily thunderstorms practically all summer. After a day with John, I get ready to finish the newsletter and then comes the lightning and thunder and I unplug everything to save our work. It's been maddening.

 

Meanwhile back to the songwriter machine and novice marketing department! The show must go on! There's always something new to report. Remember I told you John wrote a new song that we shelved because it reminded us too much of Billy Joel, and John didn't like him? Well, John came across a youtube video about Billy's life, decided he liked the guy, returned to the song and finished it. It was going to be about America's values that need to change and he was going to make it for the elections. But then the fires in Maui came and I wanted to make it about that. Save America: Land of Make Believe is the result below. 

 

John always has a Rock n Roll streak going, so he birthed, Broken. This was about the stress that people are going through. The gem of this song is at the beginning: a mysterious organ begins with a catchy melody line. I love the mysterious photo of the organ player. I had fun combining it with a fairground at night for the music video. In fact, it will become one of our posters. John isn't ready to release it fully on youtube so please check the full track out on bandcamp and maybe buy the song there. 

 

Even though it took me longer to do  I have included some fun photos of John's art creation on the bones of a grandfather clock we found on the side of the road, and also the beginnings of the beautiful song Esoterica. I hope you enjoy this month's newsletter.