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CREATURES songs so far

1. Emily Flies (on both CDs): A moving story of a girl with disabilities and the rescue horse who helps her to soar. Honorary Producer: Jacq Hammond
2. Thomas Foster: A haunting, true tale about a historical landmark and how it helped heal the grief of its builder decades ago, as well as the grief of the present-day narrator.
3. My Newfoundland Pony (on both CDs): A rollicking tune with a serious subtext about Canada’s only native pony breed, currently endangered.
4. The Reluctant Angel: About an angel who still yearns for Earth and “the pulse of blood and sun on skin/Wild laughter and the green, green ocean.”
5. Electric Green: How humans are messing up nature; inspired by the Oak Ridges Moraine (“and in the shrinking spaces left between/the spring shoots grow/electric green”).
6. Two Old White Horses (on both CDs): About two broken-down work horses. One fan said, “I start crying in the first verse and cry all the way through, even though I know it ends happily!” Honorary Producer and co-writer is Paul Aird.
7. A Dream Last Night: A catchy, joyous, Mobius strip of a tune (“I dreamed of you and you were dreaming of me dreaming of you”).
8. Stormy’s Song: A moving, true tale of a three-legged rescue dog (“Big black beautiful boy/with your big brave heart and your boundless joy”).
9. Le Cheval Sauvage: powerful French lyrics by poet Paul Savoie, set in a future when whales and wild horses have become as mythological as unicorns.
10. Silver Boy: About the love and loss of an extraordinary feline soulmate (“After fifteen years, he just slipped away/in my arms on a grey November day…”).
11. Do You Remember: An impressionistic ballad about an old love and fleeting memory (“The light it was golden, the light it was holy/time was secret, and time was slow…”).
12. Life’s Like That: An ironic take on how random events can change the course of your life (“In the blink of an eye, in one heartbeat/life turns on a dime, knocks you off your feet”). Co-written with D’Arcy Wickham.
13. Children of Peace: About the breakaway Quaker sect that built the unique and beautiful temple in Sharon, ON; a fascinating piece of Canadian history.   Honorary Producer: Susan Lawrence.

HOOFBEATS songs so far

1. Flying Changes: About changing your course when you can’t change your horse. A “flying change” is a very cool dressage move; the horse swaps leads in midair.
2. The Naughty Pony Song: Horse people know that “naughty pony” is pretty much a redundancy! (“Tie him up to a tree, he’ll just undo the knot/and head back to the barn at a merry old trot…”)
3. Emily Flies (see #1 in Creatures list)
4. My Newfoundland Pony (see #3 in Creatures list)
5. Two Old White Horses (see #6 in Creatures list)
6. Little Quarter Horse: A humorous song with a major breed at its heart
7. Chestnut Mare from my album Pegasus
8. Pegasus from my album Pegasus
9. The Canadian, from my album Pegasus
10. The Heavy Horse Song – a homage to four of the big draft breeds.