“Perfect Peace” (Words & Music by Robert Sterling) There are lots of ways to write a song. The “right” way is whatever way works for the writer or writers. The words may come first, fully formed and in search of a melody. Or the melody may arrive in a flash with no words. The [...]

I’m a guy who mostly lives in the “right now.” I never thought too much about yesterday, and probably never thought enough about tomorrow.  Composing and producing music (often on a deadline), tends to keep the Present in the forefront of my thinking.  Whatever I wrote yesterday is out there, [...]

It’s always interesting to see a young person discover something old, and think that it’s new. I remember when my younger son, who was about fifteen at the time, came to me and said, “Dad, I just heard this awesome CD by a band called Weather Report.  For those of you who are not aficionados, [...]