And another one co-written by Colin Gordon-Farleigh and me, and sung by Lauralei: “I’m Coming Home.” It seems that this one was never posted to my blog, so this is really setting things right.
Take a listen: https://www.numberonemusic.com/sheerjoymusic/song/728699-Im-Coming-Home-Lauralei
I had almost forgotten about this song I wrote with Colin Gordon-Farleigh back in 2009 until he released a recording of it with Lauralei singing. It sounds pretty good!
Listen here: https://www.numberonemusic.com/sheerjoymusic/song/717234-APlus-Student-Lauralei
Colin Gordon-Farleigh and I have written dozens of songs together, and now some of them are beginning to travel. Case in point: Canadian singer Jaye D Marie has included our song “Dreamin” on her latest release.
Five years ago, I wrote a song with Colin Gordon-Farleigh called “What Did You Mean?” Now that little musical seed that we planted is bearing fruit. It was recorded at Song City Studios in Nashville with a whip crack group of musicians who seemed to enjoy digging with their tastiest jazz chops. Colin told them to give it the Norah Jones treatment, and they responded in spades: MP3
Colin Gordon-Farleigh has been working with singer named Chuck Longmayne and a Nashville studio to record some of the country songs we wrote quite a while back.
This one is called “Armour of the Lord.” (That’s “armor” to you Americans.) It was fun to hear this one fleshed out in a full countrified arrangement. Even more fun to watch the video, which is an anachronistic mashup of Nashville sounds and Crusade images. ( I think it would have been cooler if they had gone all out and had the knights driving pickup trucks!)
Here’s another Colin/Greg collaboration, interpreted by my new favorite country crooner, Chuck Longmayne.
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A year and a half ago, Colin Gordon-Farleigh and I wrote a batch of country songs, and they’re now beginning to make their way in the world. Chuck Longmayne recently recorded “Let Go and Let God,” and you can hear it on YouTube.
Here’s a new video of the song I wrote with Colin Gordon-Farleigh, “If I Only Had Wings,” sung by Milli Alaira:
I know what you’re thinking: “When Greg posts only a few times a week to his music blog, it’s just not enough! How on earth can I hear Greg all the time, whether or not I have an internet connection?”
Well, my friends, an answer to your deepest need is here. Colin Gordon-Farleigh has just released a CD of our song collaborations called “Simply Greg.” You can get it at CD Baby, iTunes, or Amazon. You can purchase individual tracks or the whole collection. You can set your iPod to repeat the CD indefinitely or program your iPhone so my singing wakes you up each morning. You can even set up the cover graphic as your desktop picture!
So much Greg, so little time. I know. I sometimes feel the same way.