My big dream relating to song-writing is to be in the audience when performers play my songs and experience the magical bond that is being created between the performers and fans when  everything is right. I want to feel and experience that and to know that my song helped to make that magic possible. I want to move people and be moved by them.

I don’t care if the songs are played to an audience of thirty people or to several thousand fans, or by a performer that no one has ever heard of or a mega-group. Just knowing that the songs are being played and enjoyed would be a dream come true for me. I know that the experience would be different with mega-performers playing my stuff for several thousand fans. But to me it is just a matter of scale, the basic magic can occur  at any level.

Sure, it would be fun to also get paid for songwriting—much like my fun hobby of investing turned lucrative eight years ago so that I now get paid for doing something that I love to do— but I could have a wonderful life writing songs and be very successful in my mind without ever having a song cut. For me the pleasure of songwriting is in the creative journey of self-discovery, the exploration of what’s inside me, and to see if I am able to help to create the magic between the performers, the songs, and the audience.

I apologize for the long time since my last post. I plan to post more frequently going forward. To quickly update you, Denis Loiseau and I are working on a couple of songs that I initiated the lyric to and that he is creating the music for that will hopefully be at the demo stage in the near future, and a new collaborator from Nashville and I are working on a song for which I created the initial lyric  and he is creating the music . I enjoy working with both collaborators. They are fine people with a lot of talent who are fun to create with.

I also look forward to finding others to collaborate with.

Details about some of the projects, and then perhaps the lyrics and demos themselves will hopefully soon follow.

Kind regards,
Russ