Passings

LINER NOTES

Passings, my 10th album, is a collection of songs written about the many transitions and endings which have happened in my life over the past few years: the death of both my parents, my children leaving home, changes related to the pandemic, and other profound endings which I won’t mention here. These soundscapes have given me a sense of peace somehow and my hope is that they may offer something to others…

David Franklin: Acoustic Guitars, Piano, Synthesizer & Programable Music Box

Michael Manring: Fretless Bass

Owl Licks - Alex Franklin: Guitar on Another Perspective and The Meeting Tree

Warren Kahn: Mixing, Mastering (and awesome ideas): Banquet Studios, Medford, Oregon

Carousel was written for Cecilia

Sweet Dreams and Travel Well is for my mother on her death day

I’ll Never Hear My Father’s Stories Again is for my father and his passing

Ghost Tree is for the special albino redwood that I discovered and have been inspired by during the pandemic

Changes was written for Alex

When Shadows Were Analog was written for Nico

We All Become Ancestors is for those who have touched me in some way, although they may be gone

A Musical Essay is played on a programable, hand-cranked music box