One Saturday, Nick and Kevin met at Margaret's Lovely Studio to make some music. Nick played some pretty sounds on the Clavinova, and Kevin pressed Record on the computer in hopes that one day, other people would be able to hear and enjoy the…

Another lovely Monroe-Robinson collaboration. This one was originally titled "It's There For Us," but when Robbie's wife really liked the line "it's simple and easy to say the words that keep us alive" in a draft version, Leum was happy to retitle…

A love song from Kenny to his lovely wife Rebecca, about 20 years in the making! Kenny wrote and recorded the vocals and most of the instruments on his own, then kindly brought the tracks to the studio to see what magic our cadre of friends…

Another lovely song from Leum. He's prolific, that one is! It was fun to collaborate on lyrical tweaks for this one, working together to tighten up a solid draft into a rich, compact song. For recording, we used a couple of condenser mics…

June 17th, Leum brought to the studio a lovely, plaintive reflection on lost love. He recorded a solid first take, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, then invited the rest of us to fill out the production as we saw fit. Margaret added some…

Leum dropped off these lyrics at the April REM Challenge recording session, to see what other folks would do with them. At the first May recording session, we scanned through the lyrics and decided to try to put them to music. Robbie had a couple…

When we assembled at the studio for our first REM Challenge 2023 recording session, Nick offered up a MIDI guitar piece he had been working on. Kevin, being chronically underprepared, did not have any decent sounding guitar VSTs installed on his…

This one started as a busier version of Leum’s song When Do You Show It. I added drums and a bass part to his vocals and acoustic guitar, and Hayden later pitched in with a distorted guitar part. I sent Leum mixes of three different versions…

Another of Leum’s lovely minor key odes to what goes on in our heads and hearts to make us who we are. Leum Monroe – Songwriting, lyrics, vocals, acoustic guitar Kevin Craig – Recording, mixing When Do You Show It What you think and…

After Robbie had played this one for us early on, and while we were waiting for everyone to assemble for a later Zoom call, Margaret bet me a drink that the perpetually optimistic Robbie had written this song unaware of the ambiguity of the main…