Here’s one of the Spanish songs I just finished recording, Caballo Viejo
There are ultimately THREE projects that I’m presently close to finishing, “Reluctant Farewell to a Dear Heart”, the collection of classical originals mixed between my versions of several traditional Spanish romantic songs that I sing on, and my originals that I sing and have put a bit of a soft bluegrass twist to by adding Ernie Martinez playing from his soulful toes on the Dobro, mandolin and metal string guitar.
I finished up the final recording on the classical/Spanish passions this past week. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the absolutely wonderful recording studio, engineers and musicians I’ve found to work with on the front Range. Maybe it’s that Jim and Salli are salt-of-the-earth kind of souls and they draw the same to their projects. Maybe it’s because Jim’s from Kansas, originally, and we seem to speak the same language. Scott Bennett from Golden has added just the right amount of sprinkles to the Spanish pieces with bass and percussion. Scott took nothing away from my original ideas, only adding their little magic in a very subtle way. Javier de los Santos also joined in and added some Spanish leads on these songs. It was fun working with both of them and Jim Ratts’ mixes makes him the glue that holds it all together and brings it in as the wonderful project it’s been.
Singing in Spanish and playing what seemed to be odd rhythms to this farm girl from Kansas was a great challenge for me. So bringing this to an end is actually a new beginning for me, the beginning of the joyful notion that I can do any kind of music that I’m drawn to. NOW, I wonder what will be NEXT!!