In the fall of 2018 I moved into a new place to live. It had (has) a beautiful view and creativity stirred after a fairly long hiatus, and I began writing again. It started with an instrumental piece on my piano (November ’18) and progressed to a series of new songs written throughout the winter of 2019 and into the summer. Well naturally, the idea of packaging these songs up into an album became a reality, with the release of this collection ‘Why Do You Fly Away, Little Bird? and other painted songs by Michael K. Myers’. Painted? Recording this project I felt like a painter with a sketch - the song with just guitar and voice - then adding the various colours and filling out the canvas until it became a full blown painting. A song painting, if you will.
I hope you enjoy these song paintings contained herein.
The cover photo is of that view which greeted me in my new home in 2018.