Sitting in my van watching the waves roll in one fine Kauai afternoon I thought about the many ways love can be so mysterious and unpredictable. How you can't control it or buy it or demand it. How it comes to you or it doesn't, and how it seems to have a will of its own, and even if you're deeply immersed in it, still, things can change with absolutely no guarantees. The picture can get infinitely better...or worse! So contemplating such truths I began writing what presented itself to me, quickly, while the fire was hot. After an hour or so I had the gist of what I felt could be the basis for a song.

After tightening up the budding lyric up over the next couple of days I sent them to my life-long buddy and musical collaborator Bryan Kessler, on Oahu, to see if he was inspired to write a melody and music for it. Luckily he was, and within a week he sent me a demo replete with drums, keyboards, guitars, bass and a rough vocal. We'd been on a roll recently with me sending him lyrics and him writing the music for them. We've been collaborating since 1972 and lately I'd been churning out lyrics and instead of taking the time to write the music for them I passed them to Bryan or Michael Ruff - another longtime collaborator - to add their musical ideas. It's a very different way of working for me as I usually have a hand in the melody and music, but if felt good to try something different on this album and I'm really happy I did. The pace of the new songs was flying in at an unprecedented rate of speed, and production of the recordings was equally swift as the pandemic meant all my recording partners were not on the road and were in their home studios with ample time to record their amazing parts for these new songs. It usually takes more than several years for me to complete a new album but this one was racing to be finished so I just went with it.

Always planning to replace the temporary demo parts I first enlisted excellent keyboard man and singer songwriter James Raymond (Crosby Stills and Nash) to play keyboards and he did not disappoint. Relying on Jimmy Johnson (James Taylor, Elton John) to add his always deep-in-the-pocket bass parts, as he has done on my last 4 albums, I sent the tracks to him next and bingo they came back mind-blowingly right on the money as always. Bryan and I agreed this song might be perfect for new AT guitar recording sideman extraordinaire, Michael Landau (Joni Mitchell, Michael McDonald, Randy Newman) who after hearing the demo was keen to add his tasteful touch and did he ever! Next up I sent the tracks to Keith Carlock (Steely Dan, Sting) for his groovaciously solid and downright deep drum contribution. After receiving his parts and dropping them in the session, besides being utterly beyond happy, I thought now all we need next is backing vocals. I enlisted Amanda Frazier, on Oahu, who sang some sweet backups on 'The Dating Game' on the 'Two Sides To Every Story' album. She could drop by her island's great engineer Dave Tucciarone, and in his studio record her parts. I knew between her and Dave the song would be in good hands. And was it ever.

I mixed the now complete song as close as I could get to what I wanted to hear then sent the tracks to my longtime friend and mix master Paul Northfield (Rush, Roberta Flack, Wilson Pickett) in Montreal, to add the final sheen and shine, and sat back and waited for his take on the mix. After a few back and forth's 'Love's Way' was ready for her debut - the 10th single from my up and coming 7th album 'The Journey' - and here she is. Enjoy...