Songs Are Like Prayers

It’s funny, little sweetheart, how when working on an album for months and months, after its completion and release, that I might not pick up my guitar for weeks or even a month. Finally, I return and I need to remind myself how all of the songs actually go! Ya know?

I made a list of about 40 of ours songs I wanted to review and have been playing again regularly each day. Just me with my pedals, going through the Vox AC-30 using the big halfback Mesa cabinet (what a huge sound!) and the PA powered up for vocals.

When I return to these songs and play them, little sweetheart, it is physically and emotionally healing and I wrote down a phrase after as I sat waiting for the tubes to cool down before I shut everything off for the night. “The songs are like prayers”, I wrote.

And they are. I need to play and sing them and when I do, it brings me closer to you.

It’s the most important work of my life, little sweetheart, to honor and conjure you. How I love you! Forever!