Hope you like them... These are both a different version of the same song written after the US Presidential Election. They tell a story that starts with a lady on a bus changing how the world perceives civil rights, to a preacher man inpiring us all and travelling to the mountain top to the present day and a man who will soon be the president of the United States... Check out my blog for the full story behind the song as well as place to vote to tell me which version you like best...

There has been a lot going on since the start of the new year. First of all I have updated my blog site and now have a section for songwriting that I'll update periodically throughout the new year. There are officially 3 songs that I have written today. The one Love is Free and Love is Free Take 2 was my first. You can check it out on my band page. The second is a new one called "New Day" which I hope to have available soon and the third is a song called "Broken Ego" which is an older song that I have done a little re-writing and re-working. Hope to have something soon. For the meantime check out my blog at http://www.spiritinthevillage.com/song-writing or you can also follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/kboon.

Just a quick update... So I changed the genre for my song Love is Free to Acoustic Rock which I think is a better fit for that song. I was listening to songs on the General Acoustic Genre and they seemed to be mostly Folk songs. Have a couple of new songs in the works, Who Ever Thought & Broken Ego which I plan t record in the new year. More details to come... You can check out my blog site at www.spiritinthevillage.com for my Top 5 Lists for 2008 (in a variety of categories)... Have a safe and prosperous new year. Kevin

Well I've made a master list of songs. Now it's time to find the chords and put together a some Christmas Carols for friends and family over the holidays. This is something that I often forget to do until the last minute however I'm hopeful that I'll have about a dozen or so songs ready to go. Enjoy the holidays...

Last night we went to the Groove Kitchen which is a hopping place on a Friday night in downtown Preston (Cambridge) Ontario. My wife Karen and I went for dinner with our friend Jacquie who was celebrating her 40th birthday. The house band is the Usual Suspects and play on Friday nights and they also have open mic for those people who want to get up and try their stuff. There were some great musicians whos gave it a shot on stage. One kid looked like he was 17 and played guitar like Eric Clapton. Another guy played some great songs on his acoustic including Michael Jackson's Billie Jean. I'd never heard an acoustic version of Billie Jean. Even I gave it a go trying two songs, Robert Johnson's, Sweet Home Chicago and my new song Who Ever Thought. Sweet Home Chicago went pretty good but my new song struggled a little bit since was hard for me to communicate the chords or the style to the other band members. I'll have to say that I've only gone up on stage once before and it's taking me some time to get used to playing with a band, especially with no real practice. Overall the experience is a good one and I feel that with some practice I'll start to evolve with this. The band the Usual Suspects is a great band lead by Matt Storch the owner of the Groove Kitchen. They play some great high energy Rock n Roll and Blues and you can bet on a Friday night that everybody will be up dancing. The plan will be to go back again with some more songs... I'll let you know how that goes. The one thing I've learned about going on stage is to let go of your fear and don't be intimidated by the playing or singing of others. What I know for sure is there are thousands of musicians who are much more talented than me but my interest in purely in the love of playing.