Hello, "RichMac"!

Aside from the pleasure I experience listening to pure music, the most important thing I want a song to do for me is to cause me to experience some kind of emotion -- and you delivered magnificently on that account, "RichMac".

From the minute I heard your delightfully weathered voice in "Fair Land", stirred something in my breast. As I listened to it, I re-lived a feeling similar to the feeling I get when I'm singing "Happy Birthday" to someone I love, or when the same sings a song to me that we shared as children.

Its "onward" and "forward" tone -- its relentlessly optimistic outlook -- is irresistible. That you encouraged us listeners "to play and sing along" in your opening comments to the song's posting is proof that you knew, or at least strongly suspected, that the song could pull something sweet and life-affirming out of us!

Even the title -- "Fair Land" -- is evocative of some kind of future utopia that we all might arrive at if only we follow your lyric's simple prescription:

"Take the best, leave the rest..."

"Fair Land" makes me feel as though I've met you personally, "RichMac"! God bless you for blessing us with your radiant song.

Truly,

LOREN (a.k.a. "bluage")

"Music is what feelings sound like."-- borrowed from a Cakewalk Music Creator forum member, "Mamabear".