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Forty
Days and Forty Nights' and 'Stars In My Crown' are testimony to this. The
song begins with the opening lines of a Hymn which I read in a newspaper
article flying back to Germany. The subject of the article was the TV playwright
Denis Potter's final television appearance, an interview in which Potter
cited them as lines he found himself singing in the final months of his
life. He had sung the Hymn as a boy. As I say in the album's liner notes,
it has taken me a long time to make this recording. The fact is that I always
saw myself as songwriter and not a singer songwriter. |
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It was
Dave Goodman, the producer and instrumentalist on the album who convinced
me that I had to play and sing these songs myself. In order to do so I had
to learn to play the guitar properly and hold down a decent rhythm, something
I had never managed to do. My reward was the opportunity to record in Vancouver
- Dave's hometown - with a truly fine musician, who has since become a friend.
So finally here it is. The main thing is that you believe - as I do - that
this is an album worth putting some time and effort into. |
