Carolyn Moses is a wonderful and talented writer and when we reconnected and fell in love again, she wrote some great lyrics which I put music to, and I wrote some lyrics also about this powerful new start to our lives. These songs became the fourth kjband album, Matters of the Heart. Even though I had written three entire albums of new songs from 1999 – 2006, we just had to make these new songs the next album. Rick’s health had taken a bad turn again and he no longer could work in the studio so I had to find a new studio and engineer. I had been playing a little while with a band called Love Goat (yes, that was the name!) and the leader of this band had a killer studio with a Steinway piano. He was going to give me a great deal on recording of this album. In one of the biggest mistakes I have ever made in my life, I agreed to let this person record this album for a set fee (not an hourly rate which is how it usually works) even after he had fired me from his band! He felt he had to keep his word and probably felt guilty for how he treated me, so took on the project. But this person turned out to be the biggest jerk I ever met. He insisted on recording all female vocals and sax and violin parts without me present in the studio, tried to have Carolyn change her lyrics (and did so without her blessing as we were not in the studio to stop him), delayed for many months at a time, and did many other annoying things. Despite this, the album turned out well, though careful listeners can hear where corners were cut, and the sound and mixes could have been much better. Carolyn and I are proud of this album, but some day we want to re-record all of the songs with a producer who we like and who will let us participate in the recording of our music! Bonus versions of two of the songs, By The Letter, and Due This Time Next Year, the last songs Rick recorded for us, are included on the album. These were the versions used during Carolyn and Ken’s wedding on November 23, 2008. Singing these songs is Monica Pica, the person who introduced Carolyn to me back in (gulp) 1981! Work started on this album in 2010 and was completed in 2011. The album was dedicated to Herb Moses, Carolyn’s father who had recently passed, but who always encouraged Carolyn to be artistic and pursue her dreams.