It's a glorious Sunday fall morning here in Montreal and I just took my husband to the train station. He's off to the Toronto International Film Festival for a few days to do the schmooze thing that is such a huge part of the Entertainment Industry.
We sure live in an "It's who you know" world now, don't we? So many talented people out there and nobody noticing. Success is about one part talent, and 9 parts lucky. My husband is one of the most talented songwriters I've ever met. In the almost 6 years that I've known him, he's recorded 5 records and produced my EP. He's probably written about 100 songs. And I don't mean, throw together some lyrics on top of some chords. These are songs with layers and irony and so much authentic sweetness. I don't know how he does it. I only ever know how to write songs about myself. I have asked him endlessly for advice and the one thing he always tells me is: "You have to have something to say".
(sounds easy, right?)
He deserves so much more success than he's gotten so far and If by posting this I can get even one more person to fall in love with his music the way I have, then I've done my job.
It would be no different to me if he were a stranger whose album some friend passed to me.
Here is a link to our latest album. We recorded it live in front of an audience at the hotel2tango in Montreal with Howard Bilerman. It's not perfect, polished, and our voices are pitchy sometimes, but the songs are there. It's all in the words.
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