Ragamuffins

As I have been recording many of my old original songs, I ran across many that just did not fit with any of the others. Instead of discarding them, I decided to collect them as I came across them to eventually one day (soon) put them all in a collection together. I'm almost done now. For anyone who listened to any of my music growing up, you might recognize some of these. Here's a hint: There's a song about a wizard, a song about a couple of ragamuffins that run away from their maker, a few songs that were once played live by myself and/or Messenger ... but never got recorded for whatever reason. There's also a few newer ones. Hopefully, that's enough to whet your whistle. Keep eyes on the My Music page and these song should be appearing very soon.

As for those who have read my novel, Zuvia, and have been asking me patiently about when the sequel will be released .... alas, all I can say is ... I'm trying, but there's just a lot going on this year. My hope is to have "Beyond the Shadow Mist" released by Christmas of this year. Keeping fingers crossed!

Hope you have enjoyed listening, reading, and watching. I SO appreciate anyone who takes time out of their day to appreciate something I created from nothing!

Now, I'm off exploring somewhere!

Ronny

Calling All Crows now available!

My latest collection, Calling All Crows, is a more "country" style than I typically write. As I reached deep into my songwriting pockets, I gathered up a group of songs that I hope listeners will like. For me, personally, I was pleasantly surprised of the extent that I enjoyed putting this collection together! Because I tend to write in many different styles (from Folk / Americana, Rock, Faith Music, and even some New Age / World instrumentals) I wanted to make sure all the songs in this collection were similar. There's only one song in this set that is a re-do. "Little Sea Otter" first appeared on my very first release of Christian songs back in 1984. It was entitled "Rainbow Song". I always felt it was out of place on that album, and we were very limited on funding at that time of my life ... so it didn't get the creative attention that it deserved. I think we (old group, Messenger) did it with just one instrument, and a couple of maracas! Anyway, I am satisfied with the latest version on "Calling All Crows". I hope you like the newer version too.

Here's the direct link. (or you can just go to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, or Deezer and type in my name.

https://open.spotify.com/album/4AnOyu8LvVELDyxMEcZRfm?referral=labelaffiliate

I truly hope you enjoy!

RD (Ronny) Starmer

New Album Coming Next Week

I have been recently working on gathering and recording a collection of original old songs that I’m very proud of.

After I retired, I realized I had written BOOKS of original songs. Some of the best ones I shared with folks earlier in my life. But when I started going through the whole collection, I realized there were MANY that I just never got around to recording. Not because they were necessarily bad … but they just never “fit” my past projects (Messenger, etc).

Songwriting for me is kinda like journal keeping. I can read the words and remember exactly where I was … what I was going through at the time … who surrounded me, etc. And sometimes what I wrote had nothing to do with my life at all. I just heard a great phrase, or saw someone do something outstanding.

It’s also like cooking. You can create a hundred cakes before you end up with a true masterpiece. I laughed out loud at some of the stuff I had written. There were many wadded up pages in my trash can when I got finished. And I’m certain my face turned red with embarrassment as I read some of them. But it was enjoyable to see how many actually okay songs I wrote over the years. It’s been really fun for me to pick out some of the more stable ones to include in this project. I’ve never put another collection together that I like as much as this one!

Typically don’t like my own end-products, but this one is special to me somehow. Probably because it’s a country collection.

Look for “Calling all Crows” to be released on Spotify on February 12th. I hope folks enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed collecting and recording these!