Volume 4 - Rockin' the Legacy

Volume 4 - Rockin' the Legacy is really a companion album to Volume 3 - Rockin' the Hard Road. I had just completed Volume 2 when I went full throttle into composing more songs, and - as I said in an earlier post - the flow of original tunes coming out of me was phenomenal. It was like an open water faucet pouring out water at full blast. That's how fast the new music was coming out of me. And before I knew it I had enough original songs for two more albums.

Even though Volume 2 has 11 songs, I decided to cap my albums at ten songs each from then on. It was because ten songs together approached one hour long and I thought an album shouldn't be longer than that. Most vinyl albums were actually about 40 minutes back in the day, which was good because as I'm revising my music at this time, I have been cutting down on the length of the songs, bringing the total time to about 45 minutes by average. So it all worked out.

Volume 4 contains one song that I had written for a former school principal of mine. She was the principal who had hired me, and when she left the district to take a position elsewhere I wrote the song called Legacy. It's a short song and has a catchy tune, and it ended up becoming the name of the album, as in Rockin' the Legacy. I felt the picture of the American flag on the moon was an apt cover that captured the spirit of the word Legacy.

The playlist is as follows:

Letting it Go
My Lady
The Greatest
Rule the Day
Legacy
Never the Same
Those Were the Days
Time Out
Wake Up
Crystal Ball

Letting it Go was originally called Holding the Line. But as I revised and rearranged the song, I found myself revising the lyrics as well, thus the new name. What distinguishes this song is that it begins with a killer organ solo. One of the few songs of mine that does that.

The Greatest is about the greatest human being to have ever lived, so that's all I'll say about that song other than the fact that it includes a great double guitar solo. It's another of my personal favorites.

Those Were the Days is NOT the song we heard Archie and Edith Bunker singing on that old TV show. It's a completely original rock song, but it does have a similar theme as the title suggests.

Another favorite is Crystal Ball. The vocals however were so difficult, I could barely sing it. As a result, the volume of the vocals is not loud enough. I will have to redo it one day with another effort to apply the vocals. So good luck to me on that.

My Lady is about my wife. She is, after all, my lady, thus the song's title. It's another favorite. And correspondingly this album has been one of my favorites overall. But like I said before, I have a lot of favorites. Look at it this way. I haven't written a song I haven't liked. And I can honestly say every song on this album is a great song.