John Dandrea

This is the title track to the album.  It was written in 1980,  to tie together all these tunes into one album.   This photo is one of several that best represents the song as well as the album, to me. This song was written in very simple chords on an acoustic guitar; but now has been "enhanced" with AI tools and completes my original feeling for the song.
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This song is the earliest one  I had ever written, although I chose to lead off with the title track.  It's a very simple folk-guitar song using just a few basic chords.  Decades later, as I had the means to create digital recording, I was able to fill it out a bit better. I used some seabird and waves sound bits for the kind of beach-feeling I was after, and is now "AI enhanced" for best audio quality.   
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Written in July 1977  while on a  flight to Germany, to Berlin.  I was an Army soldier then, all of 19, never been out of my home state let alone overseas.   I was sitting next to a girl named Irene and during  that very long flight as we chatted, she  asked me to write a song just for her.   Being the hopeless romantic that I already was, this tumbled out. It  joins the other  ballads that are very special to me, and the "AI enhanced" version is my favorite.
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This was a fun song to write and record.  I was focusing on the difficulty between men and women in how (poorly) they can communicate, and the need to "translate" to each other as though we were from totally different planets. The need to "read between the lines". I wrote this as a duet song, and the latest AI enhanced version brings out just the feeling I wanted to convey.  
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I wrote this song while still in college, and I was writing about the discoveries I was making about women (remember I was only 19 at the time!)   I saw a beauty within, a loving and giving nature, and a genuine concern for others.  Qualities I came to admire so much. This song is a favorite of mine,  and I feel that the AI enhancement and excellent vocal fits the album feel and quality quite well. 
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Written in 1980, it's a companion song to Pocketful of Songs, and  written especially for this collection.  It's mellow and simple.   I purposely wrote it to express a feeling rather than complex lyrics.  The AI enhancement of this song was completely accurate to the feeling I was always trying to convey with this romantic, duet song.     
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This song was written in 1981, during the time I was in the military and stationed in Texas for a few years.  Some country influence in my music was inevitable.  I wrote it for acoustic guitar, with a bouncing kind of a country-rock beat.  The lyrics are full of imagery of riding a horse while working in the fields.   At the end, we find that all of the chores mentioned being done by this "cowboy Billy", is actually a woman.  This AI version puts a great country beat and vocal to the scene.
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This  is  a companion piece to "Song For A Cowboy", also a country style song.  This song has more of an upbeat tempo, with imagery of a hayride and a bit of a party feeling.  Lyrics such as  "your hair softly blowing in the wind"  and  "I've got an easy feeling, deep inside", set the mood for this happy song.   This song provides a light, happy and carefree feeling, and the AI enhanced version added to the overall tone and variety of the album.
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