Paul Guzzone

Hello Friends!

Thank you for subscribing. I am so very lax keeping up with N1M but I thought I'd drop in because I saw that one of my songs, Radio Waves started to get some nice action on Spotify and ALL the other streaming services. At this time of year I think about time, what's ahead and what we've left behind. The lyric in Radio Waves touches on that a bit. So, I thought I'd offer it to you around this holiday of remembrance. Don't worry, the song is a groove! I think you'll like it.

Paul

HI Everyone,

I have pretty much ignored my N1M pees for FAR too long. My bad! Thank you for following and listening.

I hope everyone is feeling good now that spring is here and we're seeing light at the end of the line (to quote one of my songs). I'll be doing my first live show on May 15 at The Pomona Cultural Center in NY and doing a min-tour in Maryland, Virginia and West VA with my friend and colleague Janie Barnett. I'll also be hitting the road with the Bacon Brothers for a limited number of shows around the country. Please go to my website for deets.

Here's my pandemic song that is on the N1M chart. It was inspired by the many good deeds done by friends, neighbors and strangers did for one another did we all read about last winter when COVID hit us all like a Mack. truck. Crank it up and sing along!

I hope to see in person one of these days.

Paul

After our first week in quarantine back in March, My wife Mary Ellen and I were coming to grips with the eerie reality of our circumstance. Like the rest of the country (and the world) our anxiety was beginning to run a bit high. Then the financial crisis started to get real which only made matters worse. We began to hear numbers like $2-3 trillion dollars coming out of Washington when just last year congress couldn’t order a pizza without debate. Unemployment was going through the roof as hundreds of thousands of people were getting sick and far too many were dying. We stopped watching the news and tried to limit our intake of online click-bait while trying stay alert, informed and unruffled.

Mary Ellen got busy making face masks. I wrote a song.

With all the madness swirling around us, we should focus on the beautiful stories of people helping one another especially the selfless doctors, nurses, EMS workers and first responders who haven’t missed a beat. But also, the anonymous business owners that paid the water bill for an entire town in Indiana; a flower delivery service in NYC giving away bouquets to people stuck at home; all across the country students are volunteering to shop for the elderly and sewing groups making masks; restaurants are supplying food to hospital workers and stores are waiving fees.

“Kindness is contagious” was written in chalk on a sidewalk in San Diego. Neighbors are helping neighbors. If any good at all can come from this let it be that we reconsider what is important, really important in life.

So, I offer you this song. A bit of satire and a sing-along to lift your spirits. I cowrote it with my pal Michael Sansonia and enlisted the help of a bunch of musical colleagues from coast to coast: Paul Rolnick, LaJuan Carter, Mike Sansonia, Vaneese Thomas, Mike Malfesi, Carolee Goodgold, Adam Falcon, Emily Bindiger, Tim Quick, Mary Ellen Bernard, Matt Meade, John Menitti, Rob Barics and Butch Jones. Thank you all!

I invite you to do some social distance-sing on your own. Crank it up!

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