Oh Father High In Heaven - Smile

All The Time I Was Playing The Flute, The Lines, The Solos, The Riffs, The Construction, Were Based On My Guitar Skills. I Did Not Play The Flute To Exploit Its Natural Faculties, But I Used It As A Surrogate Guitar.

We Do Hear Perhaps Too Many Accolades Generally Aimed At People Like Steve Jobs. We Have To Remember That There Are Other Classic Things In Life That We Undervalue And Take Them For Granted. If You Think Of The Classic Lines Of The Modern Jet Aircraft, It's Really Been There Since Early World War Ii.

But The Tune Ends Too Soon For Us All

I Don't Think People Really Do Listen. We Plug Into Music, And We Have Short Attention Spans. We Tend To Download Individual Tracks From Itunes Rather Than A Whole Album. We Buy Music Dvds And Watch Them Once, And Then They Disappear Into A Drawer, Or We Loan Them To A Friend, And We Never Watch It Again.

Unnur Birna Is A Reykjavik-based Violinist And Singer. She Has Performed As A Session Musician With Countless Icelandic And International Artists While Recording And Appearing As A Solo Artist As Well. Unnur Has Joined Me As An Unpaid Guest On A Few Icelandic Shows In Recent Years, So It Is A Great Pleasure To Return The Favour And Appear On One Of Her Songs At Last. This New Track, Sunshine, Came About In Italy, Written As An Ode To Sunlight And Happiness After Fleeing The Dark Winter In Iceland