For Bugs & B.B. our two 17yr old cats we lost earlier this year. Thanks to Steve Layman for this grand send-off.
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Story behind the song
This has always been a favorite recording of my days in the studio with Steve Layman.
This recording of Steve, playing his Yamaha electric grand, is a treasure granted me when he gave me permission to publish our joint studio works.
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written by the English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton (17251807).
Newton wrote the words from personal experience. He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life's path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion by others' reactions to what they took as his recalcitrant insubordination. He was pressed (conscripted) into service in the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service, he became involved in the Atlantic slave trade. In 1748, a violent storm battered his vessel off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland, so severely that he called out to God for mercy, a moment that marked his spiritual conversion. He continued his slave trading career until 1754 or 1755, when he ended his seafaring altogether and began studying Christian theology.