Along the Way from my musical, All You Can Eat.

Along The Way

all of my mistakes I want to forget them
	all sentient beings I want to protect them
		I know I can do some good
		with what I have I think I should

I don’t need to realize all that I’ve dreamed
	my only wish is to be redeemed
		I’m not looking for someone to blame
		the more things change they stay the same

I don’t want to lead a life of quiet desperation
	I  just want peace before I reach my destination
		you’re so you’re so beautiful
		tu eres bonita
		
		and I’m so glad I didn’t kill myself
		I’m so glad I didn’t kill myself
		I’m so glad I didn’t kill myself

         
		© David Shodo Portolano


Saving Lives

If I Had A Son

It was a fun opportunity to meet and start playing with Louie & Marco. All three of us had just moved to Los Angeles in early 2013. Marco from Mexico City, Louie from London and myself from NYC. It’s a big deal to move to a new town. We found each other and have been having fun playing since. Thanks guys for your support!

Another Plan

I just sang whatever was on my heart this day as it came to my mind. Hope to go back over this and re record in better quality. This song is for the one that got away. It’s crazy how fast time flies… and as the years pass I’m reminded of times when I went left when I should’ve went right. For whatever reason, that’s the path we chose. It’s hard to accept that truth, when your heart knows this person was the best thing that happened to you. I suppose I had a track of self sabotaging in my life. I can look back and when things were good, there’s a tendency to throw it away. I’ve learned a lot over the last few years about what makes a person special. There were numerous with this one, but the most important is always there relationship with their parents, especially their father. Anywho, I digress, I have many fond memories of this relationship and I wanted to put this out there rather than letting it sit in my voice memos. I miss you and you’re an Angel. You deserve the best and I’m sure you won’t settle for anything less 🙂 thx for the memories and fun times together.

Radiate freestyle/freeverse draft

I Am Who I Am, out October 16 on eOne Music Canada, finds the NHL superstar, Olympic gold medal winner, best-selling author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur tackling a new game: Country singer-songwriter. And it’s a more natural fit than you might expect. 

“I know that when people hear that Theo Fleury made a country album, they’ll go, ‘Well … OK,’ ” he laughs. “And I wouldn’t say I’m the greatest singer in the world, but I’m a real singer. But I have a decent voice. I grew up around music. I’m a Metis person and music is really part of our DNA. Some of my fondest memories as a kid were listening to my grandfather play the fiddle. My dad sang and played guitar, my uncle sang and played the guitar. Music was always a huge part of any gathering we had as a family. And it was all country stuff, you know — Charley Pride, Buck Owens, Hank Snow, all those old guys. So that became my favourite genre of music. And making music was always in the back of my mind.”

But it wasn’t until 2009 — the same year he published his unflinching memoir Playing With Fire — that Fleury moved music to the forefront. Wanting to cross an item off his bucket list, he teamed with Winnipeg musician Phil Deschambault to write a song about his life. Once they heard the results, they decided to keep going. Over the next few years, the duo — who discovered their fathers had made music together in Russell, Man., before either of them were born — penned more than a dozen songs, each stronger and more personal than the last. Fleury also began collaborating with fellow Calgarian Paddy McCallion, a longtime drinking buddy who turned out to be a talented musician and composer. He assembled Fleury’s backing band The Death Valley Rebels for his future live shows, and produced the autobiographical I Am Who I Am, which merges the hockey star’s Cash-deep vocals with the classic country twang he grew up hearing in his father’s car. 

“We wanted this to be a real grassroots album — ‘Let’s get back to fiddles and steel guitars and accordions and honky-tonk pianos, but put our own stamp on it,’ ” he says. “We’re a bunch of guys who love that old-school country sound.” 

It’s about more than just entertainment or nostalgia, however. For Fleury, it’s also about helping others by sharing his story. 

“The album is definitely dark,” he admits. “The songs are all about my life, my experience, my struggle. But they’re also about coming through that struggle. At the end of every song, there’s hope. That’s what the lyrics and music reflect: Hope and healing. If people listen to this and there’s a line or a word or a phrase that helps them get out of the situation they’re in or how they’re feeling, that’s really why we’re doing this. The message is that no matter how far we may fall, we can make it back.”

And turn it into a great country song. 





I Am Who I Am

My Life's Been A Country Song

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Theo Fleury - My Life's Been A Country Song

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Melodic prayer for the world with reggae vibes 

The Only Solution

Christian Singer Songwriter, Acoustic Guitar and Harmonica Player, Indie, Folk, Rap. 

Inspired by alternative rock from the 90s, as well as the introspective, mellow-rock of the 60s to 70s. Growing up in a small, rural town I can remember rainy-day drives in my moms car while listening to the thought-provoking music of the 90s. Artists such as: Matchbox 20, Third Eye Blind, Jewel, Soul Asylum, Counting Crows, Eve 6, Everclear, Mighty Might Bosstones, and Sugar Ray instilled a deep connection to story-telling and an honest self-reflection. 

As I've grown older, I enjoy the music of: Jackson Browne, The Eagles, Cat Stevens, Tom Petty, Bob Segar, Van Morrison, and Tracy Chapman. I would say it can be called "Highway Rock" as their music is driving to the soul, its inspiring, and telling of the world we live. Something Browne described as "The Universal Experience" where we're all connected in some way by the events and memories we share. 

The songs I write tend to paint the human emotions of suffering and overcoming. I see and notice the homelessness around me, or the litter in the streets, the quest and and endless search for more and materialism, and I try to convey that heart-felt stirring in words and music. 

Thank you for hearing. Let us glorify God by giving him praise for how much he has blessed us with. Let your light so shine!

Radiate freestyle/freeverse draft

Daniel Gennaro

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