Vistas is my second piano centered, instrumental CD featuring mostly newer songs about my recent move to the southwestern part of Virginia. A number of the songs were inspired by my climb up McAfee’s Knob where the front and back covers pictures come from. Being a beach person most of my life, I am now enjoying the beautiful vistas of my new home! Check out my thoughts of inspiration for each of the 15 songs…
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Day at the Races I have always been infatuated with Virginia’s Gold Cup Races. Love the pageantry and beauty
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Mountainside While sitting on my back deck looking at Poor Mountain and Twelve O’clock Knob, a song emerged
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Stillness When hiking, there are moments of stillness that your senses absorb. I wrote this at one such moment
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Linger Some thoughts never seem to go away. Whether good or bad, they seem to linger
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Descending This tune came to me as I was coming down from McAfee’s Knob…Many thoughts
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Drizzle There is a calming effect you get when you sit outside during a light rain…love the feeling
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Foothills This tune came to me while looking out on a number of foothills during a hike…such majesty
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Catawba Written for the mountain of McAfee’s Knob, named after an 18th century settler…also a town
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Puzzled Some relationships you never figure out…they just leave you puzzled
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Windswept My tribute to things that are affected by the wind, such as chimes, leaves and sails
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Morning Mist There’s a mystery to a hike that begins in a morning mist…adds to the adventure of the moment
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Alone Wrote this at a moment of total loneliness…a strange feeling
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Dwelling Inspired by viewing a number of places where birds build their homes on the side of mountains
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Late Spring I seem to be keen on different parts of the seasons…this tune carries on that theme
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Peace Oldest song on the CD…written as a musical move the scene along for Weaver (a musical)