The First month of a new year and with it comes the chance to renew and refresh our approach to all the things that we hold dear, amongst these will - no doubt - be Square Dancing and (hopefully) a marked decision to try and buy a few more pieces of new music - we STILL need to sell as much as we can!

I sincerely hope that all of you enjoyed a great Holiday Season and that you are feeling the warmth of that most precious time of year. Amongst my Christmas presents, this year was a CD album entitled "Garth Brooks, the Ultimate Hits". This is a super collection of GB's music, featuring most of his greatest tracks, together with a few new ones, on 2 CDs. Also included is a DVD containing 33 of the videos (and some live performances) of his biggest hits.

However there was one thing that I found that was very relevant to the music that we produce on Sting and Snow. As I have mentioned before, we use several of the players that Garth has featured on his recordings and he takes the time to mention all of them in the sleeves notes on this album. Amongst the musicians, a few have there names printed in bold text, which indicates that they played on all his albums - one of these; Rob Hojacos - is the guy who plays the fiddle on the majority of our recordings; it was nice to see hid name picked out.

Also, in the sleeve notes, Garth makes special mention of the people he has known who have passed on to their reward; amongst these he mentions Terry McMillan - who played Harmonica and Percussion, on almost all of the Sting and Snow recordings. Garth makes the following statement: "You are a talent unequalled. The brightest stars burn the fastest". Having known Terry, I wanted to share this epithet with you as I felt it to be most appropriate.

Now for the other news:

BEST SELLER LISTING (positions on the November 2007 listing)
No.4 - Thank You For The Music - SIR 360
No.6 - I Was Made For Loving You Baby - SNW 803

NEW RELEASES (January 2008):
Dance Me Around, Cowboy - SIR 381 - vocal by: Lone Blume
Private Emotion - SIR 711 - vocal by: Thorsten Geppert

NEW CD RELEASES - also available on MP3 & Vinyl (in most cases) / (January 2008):
Gospel Medley - SIR 203 - Vocal by Ingvar Pettersson & Robert Björk
He'll Have To Go - SIR 333 - Vocal by Paul Bristow
(Just A) Lemon Tree - SNW 301 - Vocal by Søren Lindergaard

INDIVIDUAL RECORD HISTORIES including ALL THE ADDITIONAL LYRICS:
To find these, just click on the book symbol next to the title on the Catalogue, Future Releases or Latest Releases pages, this month's record histories features our newest singing call releases: Dance Me Around, Cowboy and Private Emotion.

If you want to hear how these top-selling recordings sound, just click on the musical note symbol.

All the callers on Sting and Snow hope that you enjoy our efforts and invite you to contact us and let us have your comments/ideas/suggestions etc. about improving the site and future music production…

Okay, now I'm off to listen to and watch some more of the tracks off of my Christmas present CD/DVD set - who knows, maybe I will find another tune to record on this year's Nashville session? Speak to you again on next month's NewsLetter…

Go Squareful! - Paul Bristow (Owner and Producer Sting and Snow Records)