Thursday, September 01, 2005
Hurricane Relief
Taking time out from yesterday's announcement of the Limerick Contest, I am donating my entire profit from CD Sales to this fund if you purchase it from CDBaby. For the Month of September.Click here to purchase my CD, Feel My Love, All profits will automatically go directly to the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund of the American Red Cross.
You can still enter the limerick contest outlined yesterday (scroll down) and if you win a free CD you can use it as a gift. If you already own my CD, perhaps you would like to buy another one for a gift.
The feature song is Jacob's Hurricane which you can download free by clicking the banner at the top of the page. You can also hear samples of the other songs there.
I wrote Jacob's Hurricane while watching Hurricane Charlie bear down on us here in South West Florida. We were in an area that looked like it would get brushed as it made it's way up to Tampa. This is one of those rare times I watched TV as we kept an eye on the Weather Channel. When it was still a day away, I called my pal Davis Turner up in North East Florida, to where the storm was expected to cross over. I had sent Davis the tracks to my CD and as we had prearranged, he was to record lead guitar tracks and send them back to me. About six weeks had gone by with no word from him. So I chose that day to call.
I was stunned to learn that his wife, Pam, also our dear friend, was diagnosed with an incurable and debilitating heart/lung disease called primary pulmonary hypertension. Davis sounded like a ghost. In a long conversation I did my best to offer my support and tell him to forget the tracks. I was saying my good-bye and added, "Hey, Davis, are you getting prepared to hunker down for this hurricane?" He kind of stammered, "What hurricane?" He clearly had bigger things on his mind.
So this song was written that day as I watched it coming closer and eventually missing us by 15 miles as it destroyed several towns to the south and east of us. The lyric was fleshed out after hearing survivors say things like, "At least we have our lives."
I don't diminish the horrible losses people have endured in this state and now Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana over the past two seasons. I'm pretty sure I'll have to deal with storm related losses on some level eventually. I've been too damn lucky my entire life. I'm just happy to have a life. I know there are survivors who feel exactly that way. And still others that can't even think about this disaster as they have problems that, to them, are much bigger.
I hope you'll help me lend financial support to this relief effort. If buying a CD is the way you choose to do it, $10 will go to the fund. CDBaby gets the rest. I'll swallow the production expenses. I'll link back to this post every day throughout the month.
posted by Bud @ 5:33 AM
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