The
Answer To My Prayer
On
a dark day in the fall of 2002, when it looked as if time
were running out, I sat and made a list of the most important,
but still unrealized things I wanted to accomplish in
this life.
This record is just one of them. The songs span over thirty
years, some are as recent as last week, but the heart
is not a slave to time. Part truth, part dream, part fiction,
sometimes the difference is a little cloudy.
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Recorded
at 1869 Studios, Marshall, N. C. & Barbara Zimmerman’s
Home, Wilmington, N.C. Edited and Mastered by Grant Cuthbertson
& Joe Penland.
Heartfelt
thanks to Laurin Penland, Barbara Zimmerman, Roger Howell,
Mary Eagle, Erich Hubner, Sherry Smedley, Douglas McVey for
all the good work; to Eric Kuehn and Kenny Simpkins for healing
my body, and to my friends at The Church of the Holy Spirit
for healing my soul; and to Paul Frisby and Doug Wallin for
the idea for “I Can’t Get Over You”.
Thanks to Rani Arbo for permission to use her beautiful music
for Crossing the Bar and to Ron Hynes for permission to record
Sonny’s Dream on the thirtieth anniversary of this timeless
song’s birth.
Thanks for traveling with me as I share my life with you.
It’s been a bumpy road but the view was worth the ride.
- Joe Penland, June 5, 2006, 1869 Records |
