2013-02-08
Track 1 Drifting – Words and Music by Kate Goodall © With Rupert Gillet playing the Guitar solo. The inspiration for this song “Drifting” came as I sat on the beach in Haverigg, Cumbria one balmy summer’s evening. I love Cumbria and whenever I go back to my roots there is always something to inspire me.
Track 2. The Love Song of the Universe – Words and Music by Kate Goodall ©. Flute input Rupert Gillet I wrote this song after family friends lost one of their sons in a tragic accident. We were living in Germany at the time and I was running workshops on various subjects. The Power of Nature and how we can connect with the elemental forces and use it for harmony, balance and healing.
Track 3.My Promised Letter – Words and Music by Kate Goodall © Musical arrangement by Rupert Gillet . Gosh I wrote this song in the 70’s when I was still Katie Mayne. I was living in Gibraltar and had not heard from my fiancé in a while. So I thought it was the old heave ho, but, apparently he was stuck on some remote island in the middle of nowhere with an engine failure on his aircraft. Anyway – as a footnote – we will be celebrating 40 years of marriage next year. So, Drifting, The Love Song of the Universe and The Love Bug were all recorded in Germany almost 10 years ago now. I do not know where the time goes.
Track 4. Christmas Gifts – Words and Music by Kate Goodall© Musical arrangement by Phillip Caton and recorded by Jon Hart at Driftwood Studios who engineered and transposed Phil’s arrangements for both Christmas Gifts and Mr Wind I wrote this song when we lived in Lanercost in Cumbria for the Christmas Carol concert held in Lanercost Priory.
Track 5. Mr Wind – Words and Music by Kate Goodall© Again thanks to Phillip Caton for his musical arrangement of Mr Wind. . Mr Wind was written in the 70’s as well and hidden away in a draw. I have an awful habit of starting to write something, then I get distracted and the work is discarded until I find it again. This is my husband’s favourite song. Also thanks to Jon Hart at Driftwood studios who engineered and transposed Phil’s arrangements
Track 6 Irony Rose – Words written by Toni Meyer Wood © Music by Kate Goodall © My friend Toni asked me if I could write a tune to go with the words she had written about a family brooch that had been passed down from generation to generation in her family.
Track 7 Melting Pot – Words by Jenny Mayne and Kate Goodall© Music by Kate Goodall© Written in the 70’s again. My mum and I wrote the words for this one it started out as a poem and progressed to the song.
Track 8 Spirit of the Sea – Words and Music written by Kate Goodall © Again, Haverigg Bay in Cumbria was the inspiration for this song. This is the original recording recorded in Lincolnshire a long time ago.
Track 9 The Homeless of Montreal – Words and Music written by Kate Goodall © Musical Arrangement by Fouad Faraj. I was inspired to write this when we visited Montreal Canada in the summer of 2011. I saw a large homeless lady in a pink cotton skirt fast asleep on the pavement/sidewalk and wrote the first verse of the lyrics. I then put it away and forgot about it until last year when I found it and almost immediately had a tune in my head. It took me ages to finish it because I had to research what I wanted to say. Anyhoo – It is applicable really to all homeless people anywhere in the world.
Track 10 Alabama Memories – Words and Music written by Kate Goodall © Musical Arrangement by Fouad Faraj I was trying to paint a picture here of what it was actually like when we lived in Alabama. There are 3 sets of number plates which all have words above the numbers like ‘Heart of Dixie,’ Stars Fell on Alabama and Sweet Home Alabama.’ So I wrote the chorus around the licence plate words. I loved Alabama. Lovely people, lovely memories. Some of my Alabamian friends tell me they don’t say fireflies, they say lightning bugs but what the heck. I am English after all.
I am very thankful to all those people that helped me finally get the songs recorded. I have met some amazingly talented people that I would have loved to continue working with, but alas just when things would start to flow and come together we found ourselves on the move again. So a big thank you to Rupert Gillett , (Germany)Fouad Faraj (Abu Dhabi) Phillip Caton and Jon Hart (Cumbria) Roland Carson, Alex Carson and Claire Waters in Suffolk)and Toni Meyer Wood. (Alabama USA) Thanks also to Andy Murdoch of Design Fly who has designed and looks after my website for me.