Volume 9 - Rockin' Your Heart Out

I was in a phase of creativity not like I had ever known or even heard about before. After composing 8 volumes of original tunes, complete with rockin' riffs, guitar solos, organ solos, from slow ballads to fast hard rockin' songs and everything in between, the songs just kept coming. So Volume 9 quickly materialized, almost as if from thin air.

Like I said before, I was writing new song after new song. And every ten songs constituted a separate album. A bit of trivia is that every song on every album is listed in the order that I wrote it. So once Volume 8 was done, the next ten songs became, of course, Volume 9. 

And I am glad to say the lyrics are just as good as the music. I can also say that the lyrics are not so cut and dry as to the meaning. Which is what I was saying in my prior post of Volume 8. Sure, Your Heart is about my wife, but that is the only one that isn't shrouded in multiple meanings and/or involving a deeper context than what might appear on the surface.

Crooked Cutlass is a perfect example of that. It was originally a different title. But I thought the original title might be a little too controversial, meaning it might have crossed the political correctness line. Usually I wouldn't worry about that, and I really don't have to because no one is ever going to hear any of my songs anyway. But just in case, I reeled it in and renamed it into a non-impacting title. The words might give clues as to what the original title was. But like I said before, it's up to the listener to figure out what each song is about, and it's not up to me to explain it.

The playlist is as follows:

Long Time

Your Heart

Word Is Out

What Do You Say

Crooked Cutlass

My Attention

I Can Do It

Once Upon a Time

Russian Roulette

I Was There       

Actually, Long Time was originally about a politician. And when a colleague of mine read the lyrics, he even guessed which one. (Don't forget, I wrote these songs nearly 20 years ago.) But I revised the song, and the lyrics, so it might not be so guessable anymore. 

As for the cover. Clearly it's based on the song Your Heart, thus the image of the heart. I found the image on the internet and liked it enough to choose it for the cover. That's all.