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NEW RECORDING PROJECT HAPPENED

AUGUST 2021!! Will keep you posted on when CD is ready!

I released two collaborative singles with musician Jim Sande in the past several months (early 2021): "Wonder" and "Heart Sutra"--see main page for information. Both are available for download on this site as mp3s, on iTunes and Amazon, and are available on all major streaming platforms.

I released two singles in 2019. One I titled "Lady Liberty" (lyrics come mainly from Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus," poem on the Statue of Liberty). The other is a rerecording of my song "Nothing" in Mandarin. Both are available for download on this site as mp3s (see home page), on iTunes, and Amazon and also streaming on all major platforms.

My most recent album is called Gaps in the Stories. It is available through this website (as a digital download--see home page), on iTunes, Amazon, Pandora & Spotify.

The line "gaps in the stories" comes from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale--it was a line that caught my attention a couple of years back when I read the novel, and it seeded a song that became the title track for this album. I wrote the song "Gaps in the Stories" for those that have been overlooked, forgotten, or otherwise silenced. I have been especially inspired by numerous grassroots movements over the past several years, including #MeToo, to raise up the voices of the silenced. Many of the songs on this album are about filling in the gaps in various stories.

"Mary the Forgotten One" is based on an alternate history of Mary Magdalen, as told by Elizabeth Cunningham in her trilogy, The Mauve Chronicles. "Medicine Man" was inspired by working with doctors of Tibetan medicine in China. "Elijah" is about those struggling in the new global economy in the USA. "Stand Up Straight and Tall" is about the 2016 US presidential election, where love must win in the end to heal the divide. These are a few of the songs on the album about filling in the gaps.

"Bailey" is a song I wrote about Bailey Holt, who was killed in a school shooting in Benton, KY on January 23, 2018. She was 15 years old. I read about her, I saw her picture online, and I cried. Then I discovered that I am related to her. All profits from the sale of this song will be donated to the Bailey Holt Memorial Nursing Scholarship at Murray State University in Kentucky, in memory of Bailey.

With 13 original songs and 2 covers, there is plenty to explore on this album.

Gaps in the Stories

Cary Black on bass

Jeff Busch on percussion

Denise Glover on vocals, mandolin, octave mandolin, guitar

Bob Knetzger on dobro and pedal steel

Julian Smedley on arch-top guitar, fiddle, and viola

All lyrics and music by Denise Glover, except "Any Old Time" and "Blue Sky"

Produced by Julian Smedley

Recorded and Engineered by David Lange at David Lange Studios

Mastered by Ross Nyberg

Pathways