I’ve chosen this title for medleys of my newest song creations because my songs truly express deep emotions from my heart. Opening up to share my feelings has been incredibly healing.

When I first rediscovered my music in 2010, I hired other musicians and that resulted in many beautiful creations. But for the past year, I have enjoyed creating new arrangements. The older versions of my songs are lovely, but many of them were too fast. After playing live performances now for several years, I feel that something more authentic to how I actually play the song is best.

I have a wonderful pianist, Devin Farney, whom I am working with. Unlike years ago, I am directly involved with adding instrumentation to my songs.

I’ve worked with Devin for almost four years now. We added piano to my guitar tracks, and Devin helped created solo piano versions of all 52 of my songs. Everything together has been done remotely until a few weeks ago. It was such a lovely surprise when Devin told me he would be in Los Angeles and we could have an in-person session.

It was a thrill and hearing him play on his keyboard while sitting next to me was indescribable. Before he left, my son took a picture of us together.

Guitar is always the basis for my recordings. I’ve been exploring ways to add additional guitar parts. It has been a joy experimenting with harmonics and nylon guitar riffs. There’s little technical skill involved, but improvising while I play can be magical. This has all been a new experience that I’m quite proud of!

Once the guitar parts are finished, I add my vocal line and then work with Devin on instrument additions. It’s incredibly fun for me to edit everything and decide upon the sounds and placement. I am no longer a musical bystander for my songs’ arrangements.

I plan to continue working on more songs, but at this time I am releasing medleys of them. Insight Timer is a wonderful platform, and they are free to listen to. The first two medleys are named “Guitar Songs From My Heart” and “Vocal Songs From My Heart.”

The eight songs for this first medley are: Alabaster Seashell, You Were There, Memory of Love, Watching You Grow, The Key, Someone to Love You, Set You Free, and Take My Hand.

Later on, I’ll be sharing the arrangements – with and without vocals. I’m so thankful for my passion and appreciate my wonderful listeners!

I plan to continue working on more songs (hence the #1), but clicking on the image below is a link to my Insight Timer page with the medley list, as well as links: