Need a song for that special occasion – maybe a wedding, or birthday, or retirement party, or anniversary, or to honor a special person in your life? Try custom songs by erik.
Philadelphia-based singer/songwriter Erik Balkey will interview you about the story or person you’d like immortalized and deliver a fully produced song for you. As I write this, I’m previewing for airplay the second compilation of these songs, and I have to admit that I will play songs from this CD just like I played songs from the last one because they are good songs.
It’s a fascinating experiment – so often singer/songwriters mine their own lives and experiences for song topics and hope that it resonates, but here is a singer/songwriter mining other people’s lives with their permission and producing excellent work and getting paid for it. It leads me to wonder how many of the people and moments and memories there are in an “ordinary” life (whatever that is) that are worth treasuring and immortalizing in song. Ask any married couple – they have a love story. Ask anyone with a child – they have a story about their child. Ask anyone about their parents – there’s a story.
