It's time to smile. We're dominated by negative energy these days, says Eric Falstrom, who recently penned the folk record Love Will Come Through.
"I've written a lot of down-and-out, negative songs," the songwriter says. "This was a conscious effort to focus on positive things. There were 15 tracks recorded, and I couldn't decide which tracks would be on it. I didn't know which to leave off."
He ended up with 10 - and here he explains each one.
1. Angels Will Sing: "That's about marriage ... about dreaming of a healthy marriage."
2. (My Love is Like a) Rainy Day Fund: "Love is worth more than money."
3. Changing the World: "It's about wanting to do something good in the world."
4. Love to Someone: "Needing forgiveness, confessing weaknesses and fear."
5. Follow That Thought: "This is a world that tends to bring people down. A lot of people are in need of encourage."
6. Remembering Your Love: "My dad loved Bob Dylan. He and my stepmom are entering their retirement period. And it's a remembering of all the things they've done."
7. Good Sister: "It's asking for permission to start over."
8. Love Will Come Through: "The strength of love and that it's stronger than death. We get so caught up in negativity."
9. Cincinnati: "It's kind of a celebration of some of the things that I love about Cincinnati."
10. Returning: "That's a vision of the end and being received from the place you came from. You get to see anybody that you ever lost (again)."
DON'T MISS: Eric Falstrom's CD release show. 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16 at The Speckled Bird Cafe in Norwood. Free.
