Following A Dream: CD Release

A Dream Of A New CD Project

Cheryll Kent and Hickory Wind are proud to announce our new recording project, “Following a Dream“. Years of crafting have birthed a milestone project featuring 12 original songs and collaboration with world-renowned performers and talent.

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This fifth recording project of Cheryll’s perhaps best represents her love of americana music and the songwriting of Fred Kent, Dave Wren, Brian McFadden and Cheryll herself. This project began a couple of years ago and has been interrupted several times for extended periods for various reasons. Conrad Nelson, a Georgetown Divide resident of music notoriety, produced using several excellent side men (and women) adding to our project. The tasty guitar picking of award winning and Hall of Famer Larry Park, the pedal steel of Hall of Famer and song writer Dave Wren, Grand Ole Opry player Keith Little on Mandolin, and several other great players. Planned as a 10-14 song project, it ended up with 11 lyric based tunes and a bonus 12th track of the “Hickory Fiddle Lullaby” performed with the assistance of two great foothill fiddlers Ron Elkin and Tom Gunterman, and the mandolin touch of Keith Little. Keith also added mando track to “Travelling Life You and Me” to which Larry Park added his stylist touch of lead guitar; this song kind of tells the Kent’s “story.”

The tunes come from our life experiences:

“Going Through Some Hard Times” came from the story of one of my daughter’s going through several relationship challenges.
“Our California Gold” was inspired by several of my sons-in-law having to travel either daily or weekly quite a distance, sometimes out of state, just to work and keep the groceries in the house.
“Following A Dream” leaped out of Cheryll’s sharing what she remembered of the stories her great grandmother (Buddy) told of her childhood wagon train adventure on the Oregon Trail.
“On the Morning After” just kind of showed up in lyric and melody one morning as does much of Fred’s writing.
“I’ll Be Leaving Soon” came from a time when a couple of close friends had a bout with cancer and Fred found himself diagnosed with a melanoma. He then knew what it feels like to have the thing that just might get you. Fred had the chance to share the vision and some of the lyric of the rough song with a musician friend, Rick Lawton, who was fighting a return bout of cancer. He totally encouraged him to complete the tune and tell the story. Rick lost the battle and we respectfully dedicate this song to his memory and his choice of living well all the way to the end.