Common Wealth by Diane Cluck

released June 5, 2020

Thank you Colin Killalea for your skill and buoyancy in the studio, your love of music, and true friendship. Making this record with you was a joy; I looked forward to meeting you in the studio each day.

Thank you Curtis Fye for your dedication and care. Thank you John D’earth and Michelle Oliva for your gracious enthusiasm and musical flow. Thank you Isabel Castellvi for your uplifting friendship and musicianship. Thank you John Ashley Murphy for breezily gifting your harp skills. Thank you Chris Keup of White Star Sound for being an accommodating host. Thank you Brian Caputo for bringing your rhythm on short notice. Thank you Jeff Stuart Saltzman for your deft touch in mastering. Thank you Ash Devine for inspiring the piano solo on “To Love You This Much” with your ukelele improv on the home recording.

Love and thanks to my family for your ongoing support, and especially to my parents for taking my childhood requests for a piano and music lessons to heart.

Heartful appreciation for my local musician friends Wes Swing, David Wax & Suz Slezak, Daniel & Lauren Goans, Devon Sproule & Paul Curreri, and Brian Festa.

Thank you C’ville Dance Co-operative. We are beloved in moving each other.

Thank you to Ken Garson for co-creating and launching the Song-of-the-Week project with me that served as a sketchbook for many of these songs.

Thank you to the 600+ supporters who funded the making of this album--your willingness to create this with me has been a wonderful gift. Thank you to Brian Sosdian for lending a spark to this project. Special thanks to Nathan Aldrich for your generous support.

Thanks to my NYC friend-family for your endless and evolving inspiration.

Thank you God, best known to me through Nature and Music.

May these songs inspire you to live more freely in your own creativity.

Love.
Diane