Volume 7 - Rockin' the Dream

 

After Volume 6 was completed, still no writer's block was setting in. The music was still pouring out. And all original tunes. I had just completed what I considered some of the best music I had ever written, but great music was sill coming out of me. The next song, which is the first song on Volume 7, was so great, I might have even called it a masterpiece. But that category was reserved for only two songs that my friend and I had agreed upon years before. And ever since those days, (which date back to the seventies,) no other song had qualified. 

I might have nominated a song or two since then, but again, my friend would need to second those nominations and we are no longer in touch. Doesn't matter. No one needs another opinion to believe for himself or herself what song is a masterpiece. And for me, the song Dream qualifies. I believed it when I was composing the song. And I still do. I put in lyrics that are reminiscent of Martin Luther King's famous speech. Thus the name Dream. And I named the entire album after that song.

And needless to say, the entire album is great. Once again, every single song is nothing less than a great song. So it's one of my favorite albums to date. But, again, I have a lot of favorites, and this album is most definitely one of them. The playlist is as follows:

Dream

Hollow

Tall Tale

Want to Run

Give It Up

Remember

The Real Thing

On a Roll

In the Future

That number of songs is not an error. This album is the only album I put together that only contains nine songs. It's because when I originally wrote the songs, they were all very long. And because I was at first putting these albums on a 60 minute cassette tape, I was keeping the total running time to that. So when the nine songs totaled 60 minutes I left it at that.

But when I came back to my music recently to revise all my songs, I have rearranged several, and I made most of them much shorter. Some quite literally are half as long as they used to be. So now the total running time for the album is 39 minutes and some seconds. Which now ranks it to be the shortest running time of all my albums. But that's the reason why.

No matter. It's 39 minutes of fantastic music. And the singing? Well, I'll never pretend I can sing. I've said that time and again. But at least it's not bad. Which is the best I might ever hope for. I look at it this way: as long as I can carry a tune and sing in key. And I do.