This song features great vocals by Eric Buckley and a great saxophone part by Dan Rosati. PJ Lucidi plays guitar, Sylvio Filho is on drums, Tony 
Munoz  plays piano, Phillipe Pansard plays bass, and Frank Perez is the sound engineer. It was developed through an online collaborative music creation site called Kompoz. I wrote the lyrics and chord progression, and  with many contributions from the great musicians that participated the song became a smooth jazz tune that is a pleasure to listen to.

Save Me With a Smile

Jazz / Blues Session Guitarist and Recording Artist

To celebrate 2000, I took a year off to write songs, novels, plays, and stories - and I've been doing that since. At the end of my first year, I won first prize in the USA Songwriting Contest in the Lyric Category for 'Drum Machines and Beauty Queens.' This led to co-writing songs with many excellent musicians, including those represented in songs posted here. 

More recently, I was one of seven finalists in the Crisis Lyric Category of the 2021 UK Songwriting Contest for 'Lockdown Blues,' and one of nine nominees in the 2021 International Song Awards with 'Didn't the River Know' and 'Blue and Gold.'

For the past two years, I've been collaborating with many talented musicians on Kompoz. I release many of these songs here and compile the best into albums released under Captain Stormfield's Trip on Spotify and other platforms (see links below).

I like writing and I like music, so it only makes sense that I write songs and I love to hear musicians play my songs.

I also enjoy hiking, bicycling, and reading. I like a lot of different kinds of music- blues, country, classic rock - lately I find myself listening to a lot of “roots” music like Robert Johnson - “King of the Delta Blues”, and I really like the Allman Brothers Band.

Save Me With a Smile

David Koehler