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‘Til My Change Comes

Dennis L. Weaver:

 
"My Good Food Friend and Change Your Food - Change Your Life! Artist Ambassador, Pastor Gary L. Wyatt, is the Pastor of the baddest Church in Tacoma, WA, SureHouse!   Where you ALWAYS FELL BETTER WHEN YOU LEAVE THAN WHEN YOU ARRIVED!  And that’s how it’s supposed to work, isn’t it!  
 
Well, he may have written a few over 1000 Songs, Produced and Starred in a couple dozen CDs and DVDs, been on Radio and TV and Pastored all ‘round the World, but when I first met Pastor Wyatt, what he knew about Organics, its that they started with an ‘O’! "



Pastor Gary L. Wyatt:
 
"Several years back, Dennis brought me some Organic Good Food … Apples, Apricots, Crackers, Snacks … and told me some Stories.  He brought me some more Organic Good Food … varieties of Apples, Cookies, Juices, Cereals, DAVE’S KILLER BREAD® … and told me some more Stories.  ALWAYS with the Stories!  Having TASTED and LISTENED, I KNEW my change was comin’!  So I wrote a song for Change Your Food - Change Your Life! called ‘Til My Change Comes.  It tells of HOPE, HEALTH and A GOOD LIFE AHEAD, a NEW SEASON.  
 
‘Til My Change Comes turns out to be our brand new genre: GOOD HEALTH GOSPEL.  In fact, we filmed LIVE, 'Til My Change Comes for the final track on my “Impeccable Worship” DVD.  Dennis and I have done a couple of Radio Shows and TV Shows introducing GOOD HEALTH GOSPEL.  Here’s a FUN Video of ours: "Our BIG LIVE Radio Show!"
 
I want to prophesize that there is a change comin’.  Tell a friend of yours, there is a change coming!"

 
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Pastor Wyatt is SINGING about Organic in GO-O!  What a story he can tell: A story of inspiration, change and the connection he NOW makes between the life-giving benefits of Organic Good Foods and this ‘temple’ we’ve been given. 
 
I had treated Pastor Wyatt and his dear Cheryl to an all Organic Good Food Dinner on a Friday evening as part of their 30-Day Check Up after taking them on a Personally Guided Organic Good Food Shopping Tour.
 
And here’s the ‘inside Hollywood’ story for you.  This is Pastor Wyatt’s first note to me on Saturday night.  And then the recorded SONG I picked up on Sunday!
 
“Dennis
 
(Saturday night)
I woke this morning with a jingle in my head and man this is nice.  I started writing it as a jingle but it’s evolving into a whole song as we speak.  It's likened unto a song about being in a bad relationship and then deciding you have to leave.  He says he has to GO-O, and it sounds like the word Go is being extended, but he is really saying he is gonna GO-O, that is Go-Organic!!!  Man I can’t wait to finish it today!!!  You will receive it hot off of the press!
 
(Sunday morning)
I absolutely love the Chorus!!!  I see the video being done in a kitchen, with a man talking to the non-organic fake food that he’s been eating, walking out of one kitchen that has all the fake food and going into a new kitchen that has all Organic Good Food!!!  
 
The lyrics can also be delivered as a ROCK, R&B, SOUL, GOSPEL, BLUES, a little Ray C, Stevie, Aretha, Mick Jagger or a Marvin Gaye piece.  Just about anything!
 
Hopefully this will be a blessing for the Change Your Food - Change Your Life! campaign!!!  Glad to be a part and aboard!!!  See you at SureHouse.
 
Here’s to your good health.
 
Pastor”
 
 
It’s Your Beat!
 
The Challenge to KEELY CLARK, age 14: If you had the opportunity to get up on Stage, how would you pitch, what would you say, what would you sing to encourage your peers to make better food choices?

KEELY and her 12-year old Sister, Gabby, wrote the lyrics, and with the exception of just a couple of phrases, was perfect.  So, with the TALENTED help of Solomon Wyatt, Engineer/Sound/Productions, Gary Wyatt II, Song Structuring and The Beat Boyz, Music Track, and she got herself a HIT!
 
The cool thing about It's Your Beat! is that it’s a song written FOR teens BY TEENS!  The “i AM what i EAT” message is delivered PEER to PEER.
 
Organic Good Food is the place to be
E-v-e-r-y thing adds up in the end
 
Your life can really be sweet
Live your life, to your own beat
It’s your life and you got to live it up, you know
Live your life, to your own beat
 
You only got one so you got to live it right
Change your food and change your life
 
And remember, with the CD, we give you the Lyrics to It’s Your Beat! and the actual PERFORMANCE TRACK, Track 11, that was created for KEELY CLARK for her recording of It’s Your Beat! so that you can try to be our next Artist Ambassador!  Let’s hear YOUR chops.

Pre-Release Teases 

The man who makes us ALL sound GOOD!

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My Good Food Friends –

Nothin’ butTHE BEST  for our soon-to-be-released CHANGE YOUR FOOD – CHANGE YOUR LIFE!™ Presents: GOOD LiViN’” Compilation Album CD! Nothin’ but THE BEST  when you want to CELEBRATE THE BESTOrganic Good Food  in SONG!

And THE BEST  is Don King, Sound Engineer!

Technical Development:

Several months ago, THE ASSIGNMENT: Bring together the dynamics  of 16 multi-genre Tracks, Recorded by 10 different Change Your Food – Change Your Life! Artist Ambassadors in 12 different Studios, some with Digital Music Tracks, some Live Studio and LIVE Performances, ranging from a 1000-song-Writing POWER GOSPEL Keyboard/Vocalist  Pastor to POP to sultry  Jazz to bouncy Country Jazz to a downtown Compton Rap to a giggling TEEN to “slop-jar Delta funk BLUES” to an 11-year old YOUNG Lady …

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Pastor Gary L. Wyatt                                                 AnnaMaria Pasley-Horn

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Ellen Livesay                                   Ellen Livesay

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Solomon Wyatt & The Sanctified Soldiers ATK     Keely Clark

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Nick Vigarino                                                                  Nique Nique

… and make it ROCK SOLID!

The man who makes us ALL sound GOOD: Don King, aka, KING Don! No Script Studio www.noscriptstudio.com, THE MASTER of MASTERING, Engineer …

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… and Bass Player, Vocalist & On-Stage SHOWMAN with The ICONIC, pure Rock ‘n’ Roll Band, JR. CADILLAC http://www.jrcadillac.com

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As someone once said, “THE  party band …Nothin’ could be lackin’ when you’re out there Cadillacin’!”

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PURE Rock ‘n’ Roll: Johnny Be Good, Sea Cruise, Go Jimmy Go, Ready, Willing and Able, Mary Ann, Treat Her Right, Louie Louie, Be My Guest, Palisades Park, PLUS dozens and dozens of their original ROCKS and multiple CDs.

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Oh, YEAH, you could HEAR ‘EM!  A WALL of SOUND!

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Nothing goes BETTER TOGETHER than ROCK ‘N’ ROLL and HOT CARS!

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CHANGE YOUR FOOD – CHANGE YOUR LIFE!™ Presents: GOOD LiViN’ 

A Compilation Album CD

COMING SOON … A CELEBRATION in Song of making better food choices … ORGANIC Good Food Choices!

Pop • Hip-Hop • R&B • Gospel • Teen Pop • Rap • Jazz

The CD Album DEDICATION: “Our Change Your Food – Change Your Life Artist Ambassadors hope that one of their songs catches your ear and makes that healthful difference in your life!” – Dennis L. Weaver, Producer

When the CD is released, Album and Tracks will be available on a newly constructed Web Site, iTunes and Amazon, in Select Retail Stores and in ‘a % of Sales’ supporting cause Fund Raising for Non-Profits and ‘Good Works’ Organizations.

Individual Tracks will also be available for Special Events Licensing to raise the Organic Good Food energy level at Store Openings, New Product Introductions, Product Sampling, Trade Shows and Newsletters.

NOW @changeyourfood & FacebookFollow the Artists, the Songs, the Stories, the Interviews, the Reviews, WIN the CD before it’s ‘Officially’ Released, WIN Merchandise, WIN an INVITE to the Release PAAARRTY!

Nick Vigarino says...

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My Good Food Friends –

WHO is NICK VIGARINO?

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   2015 Best of the Blues Awards, Washington Blues Society:

BEST  Slide Blues Guitar – NICK VIGARINO (Multiple-Year Award Winner!)

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2015 Best of the Blues Awards, Washington Blues Society:

BEST Solo/Duo Blues Act – NICK VIGARINO’S BACK PORCH STOMP, Larry Dennis on Drums (Multiple-Year Award Winner!)

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And a “QUOTE” from Bo Diddley: “That slide is naasty!”

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Nick’s current CD Albums: “Temptation Road”, “Victims of Cool”, “The Ghost of Time”.

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Oreo® Cookie Blues  was Recorded by Nick Vigarino, Slide Guitar/Vocals, Larry Dennis, Drums, exclusively  for the soon-to-be-released CHANGE YOUR FOOD – CHANGE YOUR LIFE!™ Presents: GOOD LiViN’ Compilation Album CD. Lyrics© by Lonnie Mack.

Track 15: Oreo® Cookie Blues. 

I got chocolate on my fingers/got icing on my lips. I got sugar diabetes/got blubber on my hips. 5:45

“Nick’s guitar riff on Oreo® Cookie Blues  took me to places I didn’t know I could go, and when I got there, I WANTED TO STAY!” – Ellen

Nick says of the unique16-Track CHANGE YOUR FOOD – CHANGE YOUR LIFE!™ Presents: GOOD LiViN’ Compilation Album CD:

“I really do like the Cover Artwork. I like the way its looks.

I have a tendency to make things visible from a distance if they happen to be a CD in a pile of other CDs. I always try to see if a CD stands out. That’s what I used to do, throw out a stack of CDs and see if mine stood out one way or another. And this does.

Don King did a good job on Mastering the CD. Sounds full. Solid.

I really do like the Cover Artwork. It’s very cool.

I’m happy to be involved with The Project.”

Part of Nick’s closing act, is that he will roam through the Audience, wireless, laying down some really kickin’, hot tempo BLUES. They can give him anything to play with … car keys, cell phones, beer bottles, glasses, their dog’s paw … anything, cardboard signs, wall ads, and he’ll play a complete guitar riff right at YOUR TABLE and FOR YOU with whatever you had given him!

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Here he is makin’ music  with … and what else  would it be … an ORGANIC Watermelon!

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It’s GOOD to be THE CENTER of ATTENTION! Mount Baker Blues Festival.

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 COMING SOON … A CELEBRATION  in Song of making better food choices … ORGANIC Good Food Choices!

 CHANGE YOUR FOOD – CHANGE YOUR LIFE!™ Presents: GOOD LiViN’ Compilation Album CD

 Pop • Hip-Hop • R&B • Gospel • Teen Pop • Rap • Jazz

The CD Album DEDICATION: “Our Change Your Food – Change Your Life Artist Ambassadors hope that one of their songs catches your ear and makes that healthful difference in your life!”  –    Dennis L. Weaver, Producer

When the CD is released, Album and Tracks will be available on a newly constructed Web Site, iTunes and Amazon, in Select Retail Stores and in ‘a % of Sales’ supporting cause Fund Raising for Non-Profits and ‘Good Works’ Organizations.

Individual Tracks will also be available for Special Events Licensing to raise the Organic Good Food energy level at Store Openings, New Product Introductions, Product Sampling, Trade Shows and Newsletters.

NOW @changeyourfood & FacebookFollow the Artists, the Songs, the Stories, the Interviews, the Reviews, WIN the CD before it’s ‘Officially’ Released, WIN Merchandise, WIN an INVITE to the Release PAAARRTY!

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It's Magical

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My Good Food Friends –

To complete our soon to be released CHANGE YOUR FOOD – CHANGE YOUR LIFE!™ Presents: GOOD LiViN’ Compilation CD Album, we wanted to have a Cover as original as the music. So, we commissioned an Artist to design the Cover Art, the three-fold, six-panel CD Package and the CD Face.

The Artist: Lillyan S. Hendershot

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Lillyan’s art was recently featured in a hardcover book “featured artists. “Featured Artists” is an overview of modern art, a source for artists, galleries, museums, art collectors who constantly seek the new trends in the world of art. “Featured Artists” includes profiles and information about several artists who represent different trends of art. The book has 96 pages, hardcover 21×21 cm – 8.2X8.2 in. and it is created by Niki Katiki, publisher and fine artist of Modern Art Community.

Many months ago, we began to send Lillyan our Songs, Track by Track, with Artist Ambassador Introductions and some early “Reviews” we had received when ‘testing’ the Songs. We also sent Lillyan dozens and dozens of pictures of our Artist Ambassadors.

Then several Months ago, I met with Lillyan and her assignment: Interpret us!

“When Dennis Weaver of Change Your Food – Change Your Life!™ Commissioned me to do the artwork for the new CD Project, I knew that we would be bringing together several genres of music including Pop, Hip-Hop, R&B, Gospel, Teen Pop, Rap and Jazz. To meet this challenge I focused on the one thing that really ties everything together: Livin’ The Good Food Life!  Before beginning the creative process, even though a couple of years ago I had the good fortune to be invited to DINE with Dennis, KEELY CLARK and the Change Your Food – Change Your Life! Good Food Girl, Maura, at one of Seattle’s premier Organic Restaurants, The Copperleaf, I did my research to get in the mindset of making healthy food choices. I came across a photo of Dennis biting down on a fresh orange at UNCLE MATT’S® organic grove.

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The orange tree in the background made its way into the artwork because it was such a significant image for me. I drew influence from organic fresh fruits and vegetables straight out of the garden and the feeling of springtime when everything is in bloom and life is renewed.

Of course I had to assemble the artwork in my signature style using mixed media. In this process, first I oil paint the background on a canvas and then once that dries I design and cut out portions of scrap booking paper and do watercolor drawings, assembling them together into a scene that almost comes together by chance and gives a dimension of depth.” – Lillyan

ELLEN LIVESAY is one of the original Change Your Food – Change Your Life! Artist Ambassadors, our ‘Cool Jazz’ Vocalist from Taos. She has written and recorded I’d Like To Thank You, MaryJanesFarm and Sizzle for Me  for the Project. I gave her no indication of the direction we were going with the CD Cover Art.

Ellen said,upon seeing  Lillyan’s Cover Art for the first time, “It’s Magical!” Lillyan ROCKS!!!  I’m just thrilled with her design.”

The CD Cover Art

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The complete Package is a three-fold, six panel presentation. Some of the surprises: Song descriptions; Photo array of all the Artist Ambassadors along with some FUN “Quotes”!; The complete Lyrics to It’s Your Beat! and the actual PERFORMANCE TRACK that was created for KEELY CLARK for the recording of her HIT Teen Pop song, It’s Your Beat!; Also the address to send YOUR Video Performance to if you’d like to try to be our next Artist Ambassador.

Connect with Lillyan @ 425.672.8244

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COMING SOON … A CELEBRATION in Song of making better food choices … ORGANIC Good Food Choices!

We’re takin’ good livin’ to a whole ‘nother level!

 CHANGE YOUR FOOD – CHANGE YOUR LIFE!™ Presents: GOOD LiViN’ Compilation Album CD

Pop • Hip-Hop • R&B • Gospel • Teen Pop • Rap • Jazz

 The CD Album DEDICATION: “Our Change Your Food – Change Your Life Artist Ambassadors hope that one of their songs catches your ear and makes that healthful difference in your life!” – Dennis L. Weaver, Producer

The Play List!

1. GOOD LiViN’ – Radio Mix  AnnaMaria Pasley-Horn 3:22 (Pop)

The Organic Good Food ANTHEM: “Organic food is the cure for lovin’ life, that’s for sure.  We’re takin’ good livin’ to a whole nother level.  Change your food, change your life. Change is good and good is right.  We’ve got good eats and good treats.  You can see ‘em shinnin’ in the glow of my skin!”

2. ‘Til My Change Comes  Pastor Gary L. Wyatt 4:30 (Gospel)

“The Lord told me the other day that there was a change comin’.  Help me bless Him right now for the change that’s coming.  I can see it on the horizon.”

(A trilogy: Each song dissolves right into the next.  The Story of a Journey of Discovery and Good Health) 3. Don’t Buy The Lie!  Solomon Wyatt & the Sanctified Soldiers ATK – Dre, Tmac, K-Strat 4:37(Rap) “Know the truth” 4. GO-O  Gary L. Wyatt 3:34 (R&B) “If I knew you were lyin’ to me, I would have left ya a long time ago.  So, here it is, I’m sayin’ so long.  I’m gonna go O, GO O … and I feel so good” 5. I Once Was Blind  Gary L. Wyatt 3:26 (Pop) “I’ve come to know a new reality.  Look out World, here comes a brand new  me.

6. I’d Like To Thank You  Ellen Livesay 4:11 (Gospel)

“I’d like to thank you, Lord, for your healthy and vital Organic Good Food.  It  was you who healed me.  You provided all I need.”

7. 7 HOT MINUTES of ‘Til My Change Comes – LIVE!  7:02 (Gospel)

Pastor Gary L. Wyatt & The Jackson Sistas with The SureHouse Band and Grammy-Award Winner Dave Raynor on Guitar. BANG!

8. GOOD LiViN’ – LIVE!  AnnaMaria Pasley-Horn 4:37 (Pop)

BANG!

9. GET UP!  Gary L. Wyatt and 5-year old Granddaughter, Nique Nique 3:55 (Pop with a little Jamaican beat)

“Get up and dance with me, get up. Clap you hands and move your feet, get up. Feel the rhythm of the beat, get up, get up and dance with me. GET UP!” (Our exercise track)

10. It’s Your Beat!  Keely Clark 3:16 (Teen Pop)

“Getting’ out and eatin’ healthy.  Feelin’ that beat is the way to be.  Your life can really be sweet. You only got one, so you got to live it right, ya know.”

11. It’s Your Beat! – KARAOKE PERFORMANCE TRACK. Includes Lyrics Sheet. Performance Track by The Beat Boyz 3:19 (Teen Pop)

Be the NEXT Change Your Food – Change Your Life! Artist Ambassador.

12. MaryJanesFarm  Ellen Livesay 3:35 (Country Jazz)

“So be the farm girl in you.  Embrace the sisterhood of your heart.  Farm chick, city chick, urban, outdoor, any chick, that’s you.”

13. Sizzle for Me  Ellen Livesay 3:41 (Smoky Jazz)

“I need you, you sustain my life and fulfill me, my love”

14. GOOD LiViN’ – Rider Version  AnnaMaria Pasley-Horn 3:16 (Hip-Hop)

If you like to cruise, sitting way down low in your seat with the windows open and your trunk is FILLED with high-end audio equipment, THIS cut is for YOU!

15. Oreo® Cookie Blues  Nick Vigarino 5:45 (BLUES!)

“I got chocolate on my fingers, got icing on my lips.  I got sugar diabetes, got blubber on my hips.”

(Just a very short breather between Oreo® Cookie Blues and Secret to Life )

16. Secret To Life  Nique Nique 1:02 (Just CHARMING!)

“I may be young, but I know what’s right!”

61:51 © (p) 2015 Change Your Food – Change Your Life!™, Inc.

DANCE to it! SING to it! EXERCISE to it! SHOP to it! EAT to it! DRINK to it!

EAT GOOD = FEEL GOOD

That’s the equation for the good life.

When the CD is released, Album and Tracks will be available on a newly constructed Web Site, iTunes and Amazon, in Select Retail Stores and in ‘a % of Sales’ supporting cause Fund Raising for Non-Profits and ‘Good Works’ Organizations.

Individual Tracks will also be available for Special Events Licensing to raise the Organic Good Food energy level at Store Openings, New Product Introductions, Product Sampling, Trade Shows and Newsletters.

NOW @changeyourfood & FacebookFollow the Artists, the Songs, the Stories, the Interviews, the Reviews, WIN the CD before it’s ‘Officially’ Released, WIN Merchandise, WIN an INVITE to the Release PAAARRTY!


A CD “Review” from THE ‘Makin’ Kids HAPPY’ EXPERT!

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My Good Food Friends –

Katherine Pryor is SUCH FUN to be around.  I describe her as a walking CELEBRATION of LIFE!  No one CHEERIER!

Trouble with children ENJOYING Spinach? No problem! Katherine is Author of a delightful little children’s book, “Sylvia’s Spinach”.

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Trouble with children WANTING to grow ZUCCHINI? Once again, no problem! Her SECOND Book, “Zora’s Zucchini”, was released this August.

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Katherine teamed up with the Artist Illustrator from her first Book, Anna Raff, New York City, and Publisher, Readers To Eaters.

Here’s an entertaining Interview with Katherine on Food Sleuth Radio by Host Melinda Hemmelgarn, RD.

Katherine has a popular and much-in-demand  in-School reading-directly-to-the-Children Show to include her little red wagon FILLED with Spinach to tasteand they DO!  I’ve SEEN it!

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The “Sylvia’s Spinach” story is so popular that now it’s in paperback to reduce the price to help get its GOOD EATING Message into even wider distribution.

So, that’s two down, S & Z, and 24 more to go. She’ll have her own Fruit and Vegetable Library.  STAY TUNED!

I know Katherine, and HER  HAPPINESS and THEIR  HAPPINESS is not made up for this pic! It’s REAL!!!! She does that to KIDS!

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Katherine’s review of our soon-to-be-released “CHANGE YOUR FOOD – CHANGE YOUR LIFE!™ Presents: GOOD LiViN’” Compilation CD Album:

“Hi Dennis,

I finally had a chance to listen to the whole CD in one sitting this weekend. My husband & I listened to it on a drive out to a friend’s house in Redmond, which seemed perfect, as I imagine a lot of people will listen to it while driving!

When I first held the CYF-CYL CD in my hands, I wondered how on earth all those different artists and genres would possibly fit together, but you’ve done it! The album is a celebration of life and the feel-good power of real food. The artists deliver their message with passion, humor, and the conviction of converts who’ve seen the dark side of industrial food but who can finally see the light.

WARNING: GOOD LiViN’  was so darn infectious I was still singing along hours after the music stopped. Then again, that’s the kind of viral message we need to be spreading!

GOOD LiViN’  is my FAVORITE song on the album, although Pastor Wyatt with ‘Til My Change Comes is a close runner-up!

GOOD LiViN’ – LIVE! and 7 HOT MINUTES of ‘Til My Change Comes – LIVE!” — both are incredibly powerful.

I’ve thought a lot about how I would “review” this for you, and hope you know how seriously I’ve taken this. I believe in what you’re doing & am so, so impressed at your vision and the talent of all it took to create this.”

Katherine Pryor

www.katherinepryor.com

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“Sylvia’s Spinach”   “Zora’s Zucchini”

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