The Wind And Sun, by Jim Beloff

The Wind And Sun

by Jim Beloff

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musicladydawn7 It appeals to me because it crosses generations and expresses how we are interdependent. Favorite track: Walk Each Other Home.

Ken Moody-Arndt This is a wonderful collection of blues, gentle but persistent protest, novelty songs, and love songs, featuring baritone and concert ukulele, stellar songwriting and performance, and excellent backing musicians that don't overpower the songs. Highly recommended. Favorite track: Ever Thus.

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1.	This Could Be My Lucky Day 03:45	buy track
2.	The Wind And Sun 03:01	buy track
3.	I Don't Want To Drink Alone 03:12	buy track
4.	Miramar 03:04	buy track
5.	Ever Thus 04:13	buy track
6.	On My Way To You 04:11	buy track
7.	Been Down This Road Before 03:43	buy track
8.	Waiting For Superman 03:10	buy track
9.	The Last House 04:13	buy track
10.	Walk Each Other Home 03:08	buy track

about

This recording was begun at the beginning of 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. During those carefree days, Michael Arafeh and I recorded all of the uke and vocals parts. When the lockdown came, it put this project on indefinite hold. On a whim, I contacted Randy Landas, a brilliant bass player I had worked with on the “Dreams I Left In Pockets” project, to see if he might be able to play on these basic tracks remotely. Like everyone else at the time, Randy was under lockdown as well, so he was happy to have a project to work on at home and knew of other musicians who would also be eager to participate. Thus began a most wonderful few months of waking up in Connecticut to magically enhanced tracks that had been sent from California the night before. It’s impossible to overstate how indebted I am to Randy for helping me find the “sound” of this album.

The title of the album and the title song refer to one of my favorite Aesop’s fables known as the “The North Wind and The Sun.” I’ve often thought that the lesson it teaches may be one of the most important of all. “The Wind And Sun” and most of the other songs here were written in the last few years. The two I co-wrote with Herb “Ohta-san” Ohta go back to around 2005. “I Don’t Want To Drink Alone” was a work for hire that William H. Macy sang in the Showtime special “Out Of Order.” “This Could Be My Lucky Day” was written for “The Layover,” a 2017 movie comedy Bill Macy directed. A shortened a cappella version of the song was used to lighten up a brief, furniture-wrecking scene of passionate lovemaking. I wrote “Walk Each Other Home” in early 2020 just as we started recording. It is based on a quote by Ram Dass, “We’re all just walking each other home.”

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released August 3, 2020

Produced by Randy Landas, Jim Beloff and Michael Arafeh
Recorded by Michael Arafeh at The Coffeehouse, Middletown, CT
Vocals and ukulele: Jim Beloff
Ukuleles used: Waiting For Superman, On My Way To You, The Last House: concert Koa Fluke. All other tracks: 50s Martin baritone
All basses, all guitars, organ, drum programming: Randy Landas
Synth, string and harmonica arrangements: Mary Ekler
Drums, percussion: Tom Walsh
Trumpet: John Fumo
Harmonica: Jon Kip
Pedal Steel: Doug Livingston
Flute: Bumpy Chimes
Art Direction and CD design: Scott Baldwin
All songs by Jim Beloff. “Miramar” and “Been Down This Road Before,” lyrics by Jim Beloff, music by Herb Ohta
All songs © Flea Market Music, Inc.

Contact: jim@fleamarketmusic.com
Flea Market Music, Inc., Box 661, Clinton, CT 06413 U.S.A

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Jim Beloff Connecticut

Jim Beloff is the arranger, and publisher of the Jumpin’ Jim’s series of ukulele songbooks with over 1,000,000 copies in print. This series includes The Daily Ukulele, one of the best-selling ukulele songbooks ever published. Jim’s “Dreams I Left In Pockets,” features 33 songs he wrote or co-wrote. In 1999, Jim composed and premiered “Uke Can’t Be Serious,” a concerto for ukulele and orchestra. ... more

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