Dear Friends, 2020, what a year! The new double album, Collaboration, Music by Warriors, Zombies & Other JoeDai Pilgrims is initially available here, on Bandcamp. Soon it will be available through all the usual platforms, like Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby and so forth. https://joedaiwarriors.bandcamp.com/album/collaboration After working on this pandemic opus, Collaboration, throughout the year, the collection of songs seemed to require some form of explanation, and for a songwriter what better way than to put it in song!? So at the end of the process I wrote this little ditty, COVID Collabs, to look back on the year in relation to not only the pandemic, but also the evolution of these songs. I am sure you will all take the time to reflect on the year in your own ways, the joys and the many sorrows. Happy New Year planet earth & inhabitants. Let's Collaborate for a kinder, gentler world, and happiness for all. Here's to a hopeful 2021! Joe COVID Collabs By Joe Peters, October 2020 Broke my toe in January, turned too old in February Along came March and blew us all away All of April I never went out, May rolled in and left no doubt By June this thing had simply runaway Then friends sent lyrics and poems and things I grabbed my guitar and plucked the strings Before too long these songs found wings So I bought some gear and learned to use it Made two-track demos that sounded like sh.. A magic man turned them into hits We searched for singers in mid-July, by the end of August they had multiplied In late September it all came together Throughout October we mixed and matched, November made sure these babies hatched Come December they were smooth as Spanish leather Thank you COVID for collaboration, from one end to the other of this mighty nation There’s strength in numbers we shall overcome