Single Releases

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 A little background on the song – I wrote  it about a love affair, a romance that came and went, loosely based on a  true story . . . of course. And it reminded me, the way it bloomed and  then faded, of the way the seasons change – and how, even in springtime,  the sky can look a little dark sometimes. So, yeah, it’s a heartbreak  number – but hopefully wrapped in beautiful music that will treat your  ears and your heart just right!    

Once in a while, the universe permits everything to come together just so you and your lover can have a beautiful – a marvelous – night. Apache offers an appropriately sensitive acoustic guitar instrumental in the short break. -S.T.

Yes, it’s heartbreak, but we’re having fun singing about it. Recorded in Los Angeles with some absolutely killer backing vocal work by Gia Ciambotti and Kaspar Abbo. One reviewer called Apache’s guitar break “one of the best pound-for-pound guitar solos I’ve ever heard.” -S.T.

Photo : Jimi Giannatti

Someone True: An upbeat sort-of-Bossa-Nova about the excitement of meeting someone new, and having a gut feeling that it just may be your true love. Killer bass part from Kyle Sanford, along with fitting rhythms from Mark Jeffords on guitar and Keith Rosenbaum on drums. Nice violin work by Lauren Dixon completes the feel on this one. (Now all we need is to get a hold of Sergio Mendes and Brasil ‘66 to do their version.) -S.T.

Photo : Jimi Giannatti 

Well, of course Eight Weeks Today is a love song – a broken-hearted-I-miss-you-I-can’t-go-on number, the relationship is over and it hurts type of thing. The inside story, where the idea for the song started for me -- and I haven’t shared this with many people – was the death of my mother. Which was several years back. I was sitting at the piano – I was living in Cardiff on the south California coast at the time -- looking out at my “strip of the ocean” and feeling the loss pretty heavily. I looked over at the calendar and saw that it was exactly eight weeks from the day of her passing. And there it was. I had the title and the one line about the ocean. That was it at the time. It stayed with me, and years later I finished the song, switching the scene to a romantic breakup, infusing it (hopefully) with the pain that comes with separation from someone we love.-S.T.

Photo : Jimi Giannatti

Some Kind of Hope came to me out of nowhere. Or everywhere, maybe. Most of it was just there for me, all at once, and I just . . . finished it. Added a few lyrics to craft the message. From the very beginning it felt like a hymn, something you would maybe hear in a church. I think it very much applies to what’s going on in the country and the world right now; but it also seems like a good message, maybe even a “wholesome” one, for any time. To me it feels good to sing it, to say it: I believe in peace, I believe in love, and . . . some kind of hope. Always.-S.T.

Photo : Matt D Jones