Sunday started off with a “Sunny New Day” (played as the sun came up) on the rtrfm Brain Blood Volume radio show with my dear friend, Shy Swan.

Bless you Shy Swan for including me on the set list and I feel honoured to have been featured next to the impressive John Martyn (who I had never heard the music of before now, and I LOVE it!), who died last year and was a good friend of one of my biggest influences, Nick Drake (who never received the recognition he so deserved until many years after his death in 1974).

Love you Shy Swan. Thanks for still believing in me! XXX

Have a beautiful sunny new day today! I`ll keep smiling for sure…

written by Mandyleigh \\ tags: chicago, john martyn, nick drake, radio, rtrfm, shy swan, sunny new day

Quite a bit of Nick Drake, Annie Lennox and Meatloaf lately.

Amazing stuff, wish I had written much of it.

Stand songs for me are;

“Dark Road” and especially the beautiful “Smithereens” (Annie Lennox).

“One Of These Things First” and “Hazey Jane” (Nick Drake).

And Jim Steinmans pure brilliance “For Crying Out Loud”.

Great stuff and really means a lot to me at this time.

Be bad!

XXX

written by Mandyleigh \\ tags: annie lennox, Be Bad, dark road, for crying out loud, hazey jane, jim steinman, nick drake, one of the these things, smithereens