Black Dove

Big Wheels

Anything but You

Bones in the River

If You Ever Leave Me
Love is the strangest thing I ever did see, 'specially when it casts a little spell on me. When you looked me in the eye, I knew that I had it bad. Everybody told me that you made me blue, I didn't stand a ghost of a chance with you. Now your mine and I find I don't pine and I never feel sad.

Capricorn

Lost Boys

The Place Where I Belong

If You Ever Leave Me

Dreams Fade

Half a mile of a loaded freight train, engine full of steam. Rollin' down that Winfield line, can't you hear that whistle scream. High water, and Hell won't slow me down.

High Water

►"Black Dove" Lyrics:

There’s a black dove in my home
Standin’ there all alone, 
In a corner where nobody ever goes.

It’s been with me a long, long time.
Since the summer Elvis died.
It keeps every secret to my soul.

Sittin’ silent like a stone,
Ebony, pearl and bone. 
I dread the day with it i’m left alone.

I ride the moonlight highway. Cross the desert to the sea.
I fly when the wind blows my way.
Til the morning ends another night alone.

For it knows every sin.
In every place that I have been.
And all the hearts that have ever been done wrong.

I ride the moonlight highway. Cross the desert to the sea.
I fly when the wind blows my way.
Til the morning ends another night alone.

For it knows every sin.
In every place that I have been.
And all the hearts that have ever been done wrong.

Six strands of cold steel
Separate all that is real
From what can only happen in a song.

I stand in the bright light
Building shelter from the night.
For all the hearts that have ever been done wrong.

I ride the moonlight highway. Cross the desert to the sea.
I fly when the wind blows my way.
Til the morning ends another night alone.

For it knows every sin.
In every place that I have been.
And all the hearts that have ever been done wrong.

Tag: And I wake and hope to find the damn thing gone.

Paradise Motel became a true recording act in late 1991 with the recording of our first full studio album. We released our first single "Fire in the hole" in early 1992 and later released a video for that song. It did very well in Canada and the USA. We were invited to play Fan Fair in Nashville and enjoyed some significant successes. These successes allowed us to create a network of contacts that would become our link to performing in the United States regularly. We opened for several major label artists in those years and during our tenure with Fan Fair, played iconic venues like the Earnest Tubb's record shop midnight jamboree, Hee Haw Theatre in Knoxville, and the IFCO Fan Fair luncheon in Nashville. (Imagine playing for 18,000 people gorging themselves on pulled pork sandwiches and potato salad? AMAZING!!!) We also became affiliated with an agent that got us started on Nevada's silver circuit. We played several casino venues throughout Nevada.

As a group, we had experienced a taste of success as well as some disappointments. The music touring and lifestyle had its issues, which ultimately led to the band separating in the summer of 1994.

In September of 2012, our bass player (and Ray's younger brother) Tim Mussell passed away unexpectedly. It was this tragic event that led to the reincarnation of Paradise Motel. Ray and Glenn started writing together again and decided to demo new songs. Glenn had a bed track of a song Ray liked, and during the 25-minute drive to meet one another, Glenn wrote the lyrics to "Black Dove." It all started with that song. They tweaked the lyrics and the chorus chord sequence and demoed the song. Ray added vocal arranging and harmonies, and what we are about to release to the world is essentially what we created that afternoon.

Twenty five years have passed, and there is a new group of people who make up this version of Paradise Motel. Besides Ray Mussell and Glenn Ellery, there is Randy Rink, who does all the lead guitar work and the bulk of the rhythm guitar work for all our recording projects. Randy is a world-class guitarist and will be performing with the group. Our producer/engineer, Ron Chenier, managed all the studio production for our most recent projects. Ron was also our engineer when we recorded the original Paradise Motel CD back in 1991.
To our departed brothers, Tim Mussell and Bernie Parenteau. They were an integral part of Paradise Motel in its inception and through several recording ventures early in the band's history. We miss them immensely and wish they were still here with us for this next chapter. Some of the songs on Black Dove carry their musical influences. They were talented, creative, funny, dedicated, and excellent individuals, and this world was undoubtedly a better place with them in it.

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