Viva Italia - Kayler Guitarist Extraordinaire Plays Neapolitan Songs CD

The songs vary from heartfelt realism to Flannery O'Connor sort of dark humor."Feet Make the Path" came from an essay I read about someone's yard being ripped up by the city. Originally there was a path that was made by people taking a shortcut across one corner. When the city was working they left a sharp edge and a few feet down to the street. Eventually the path was worn smooth again. The song goes beyond that into walking, meeting people and the fact that they are what makes our lives worthwhile. I actually dreamed the electric guitar part that comes in every so often - woke up one day and went down to the studio and recorded it! Sure would like to see that happen more often."Longest Road in the World" is a song about the struggles we each go through in our own way. Haven't we all faced some sort of thing that seemed like it was taking forever and would never be over. There is still humor in the song with lines like "If our mistakes teach us how not to get burned, I should be a genius with all that I've learned by now . . . .""Love Handed Down" is the title track and a connection to a sort of theme that runs through most of the record. Having had many discussions with various people over the years about whether or not there is life after death (I've never had anyone come back to prove it), I believe the proof is that the love we experience, or not, is passed down to our own kids. There have been so many times when I've been talking to my son when I felt like my dad was talking. . . . I think this song may be more directly from my heart than anything I've written to date."Sail On Love" was a challenge by a friend and supporter of mine who's really into sailing. Thanks Dave! My first CD has a song called I'll Sail Again and I didn't want to revisit that exactly so this one eventually became a love song lullaby sort of piece. Skin on skin, drifting off. . . ."Driving Through Ohio", swimming upstream - it's where I'm from. Sometimes you can go back home. Sometimes you have to."Doyle, Loretta and the Alligator Farm" - with a title like that how serious can it be? Check it out.