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White Wings

from WHITE WINGS by Jon Strider

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The creative chain: This song, co-written with Alabaman, Jonathan Bloom, circa 1994, recounted the miraculous "recovery from cancer" story of Jonathan's young wife at the time, artist, Lila Graves. Jonathan picked me to be the producer and co-writer of his "Healing Power" album, which was released circa 1995. He flew out to L.A. to do that with me in a large studio space that housed my Pacific Songworks recording studio and my girlfriend Reiko's video/film facility, Intermix. Unforeseen circumstances had it that we had to write roughly 10 songs in a 2 week period. I like songwriting pressure so I took the task on. I remember Reiko, Jonathan and I walking in Venice Beach on a mysteriously grey and foggy day and talking about song titles. Reiko came up with the title "White Wings", which was brilliant, because we had been looking at stacks of Lila's Polaroid photographs of Mexicans sporting the white wings she had constructed. With that title Jonathan and I were off and running on that song. ...Cut to 2003, Malmö, Sweden, and I was now doing my version of this White Wings song at Amir Aly's YLA studio. What was amazing was that Lila Graves coincidently released an art book entitled WHITE WINGS in the same timeframe that I released my WHITE WINGS album. Here's the link to Lila's book: www.pinterest.com/pin/192599321534680946/ Between the song and the book you'll get the picture... An amazing story well chronicled.

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WHITE WINGS
(Strider/Bloom)
She was just a Southern girl
Comin' from a small town
She loved to chase the sun around
All around the world
She noticed something on her skin
They didn’t give her very long
So she rode the sky to Mexico
On a plane with White Wings

You don’t have to die to be an angel
You just gotta try and shake it off
Say a little prayer
And wear your White Wings
Wear your White Wings

She took a room in San Miguel
With the palm trees swayin’
She walked into the sunset
And then she turned around
She got herself some palm leaves
Some feathers and some paint
And made herself some White Wings
A pair of White Wings

You don’t have to die to be an angel
You just gotta try and shake it off
Say a little prayer
And wear your White Wings
Wear your White Wings

(Vocal solo: Vera Renella)

And everywhere she went
She wore them
And everyone she met
Would try them on
And everyone could feel the healing power___
Of the White Wings
Of her White Wings

Now she’s still a Southern girl
Living in her small town
She swears to me they saved her life
A pair of White Wings

(c) 1995 Pacific Songworks BMI / Lake Martin Music BMI
(p) 2005 New Sky Records NCB license secured

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from WHITE WINGS, track released May 1, 2005
Written by JON STRIDER & JONATHAN BLOOM
Produced by JON STRIDER
Recorded & Mixed by AMIR ALY at YLA Studio, Malmö, Sweden
Mastered by JAN ELIASSON at Tocano, Copenhagen, Denmark
MUSICIANS:
AMIR ALY - bass, atmospheric backwards electric guitar, drum loops
VERA RENELLA - background vocals
BG SAHLIN - acoustic guitar-right channel
JON STRIDER - lead and background vocals, acoustic guitar-left channel, keyboards, tambourine
MARLON TEPEDINO - percussion
THOMAS GRÜN - cymbal ride

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Jon Strider Malmö, Sweden

Performing singer-songwriter, musician and record producer from California - 9 solo CD's on New Sky Records - Music style: "Retro rocking' Country with a Blues&Rhythm twist" and "Rhythm n' Folk" - Career migration track: SF Bay Area to L.A., through Nashville & Austin to Sweden, (for19 years) and back... ... more

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