Life indeed happens in the small things around you. And love, sun and life itself sounds like a good formula to me.

6:00 p.m. - No idea where my song ideas come from. It’s like pushing a button. Sitting down at six p.m. on my piano and the idea almost floats from the second my hands touch that initial A-Major chord. I had this conception of happiness in three everyday things. Love, for sure. The sun, makes me happy. And definitely life itself. Boom. And everything else I sing about in the verses is the life around us, the special, the mundane. But in the end, do you really need that? Happiness can be drawn from few items in life. No one will ask, but I tell it anyway, “the song that Joni sings” is of course any song by Joni Mitchell.

9:00 p.m. - Recording starts. Piano 8 bars for the verse, boom! Piano 10 bars for the chorus, done. The bridge,one take. Main recording was done by…

10:15 p.m. - The organ took a little longer to figure out but I could modulate with one of the keyboard wheels. Today a lot of vocal cleanup to eradicate clicks, hms, and hisses.

10:45 p.m. - First bounce. Background vocals to prominent. One more. Final listen.

11:00 p.m. - Song done.

Learnings today:

Next song must a different key than A-Major. (But it fits my voice well)
Better bass playing