Make Music Day 2021 ~ My Song Is Your Song

I recently took part in a fun project, that involved singer-songwriters throwing their names in a hat, and then swapping and covering each other’s songs through the My Song Is Your Song project – as part of the 2021 Make Music Day.

I was paired up with Amber Fults, from Tennessee. Here’s my cover of Amber’s song “Fire Burning”:

Check out Amber’s original version on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/30jVabsbADXhiiGzXrVap0?si=112658e31d734de8

With a delivery somewhere between Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the aforementioned Memphis Minnie, Chris’s own songs stay firmly within the tradition that has so inspired her, with trains, work gangs and cotton fields the backdrop to the usual tribulations of life, from hard lovin’ to just making ends meet workin’ for the Man. You can hear the passion, the commitment, and that gives her own songs the necessary authenticity, a true master’s apprentice.

Rhythms Magazine 2017 ~ Michael Smith