The River Keeps on Flowing is a wonderful collaboration between Rob Lynch, Yakima Valley fruit farmer and kayaker, Casey, George and Jeff. I was returning from a Klickitat River trip and stopped by to see my friend Rob’s tasty new home on the banks of the Yakima River. While there I noticed a large greeting card on a table and picked it up to read it. Rob had written inside a huge poem that was actually a wedding proposal to his fiancé. I thought it was pretty good writing and asked Rob if I could take it home and edit it into a song. Thankfully he said yes! I put on my editors hat and went to work crunching it down into a song and changing some words here and there. Next I sent it down to George to see if he would put some music to it and within a short period of time he came back with this most excellent, anthem of a love song.
Without Rob knowing, I got the lyrics and recorded song to the band that was to play at his upcoming wedding. They learned the song and on the evening of the wedding reception, called the audience to attention and announced that they were going to play a special song for the newlyweds. I grabbed Rob by the arm and marched him up to the stage telling him to say the magic proposal words when the song came to that point and he did it! The crowd went wild and the rest is history. Later I changed the bride’s name to be a more generic ‘darlin’ rather than her real name. I decided long ago that this would be the title cut of the album. Jeff did a great job filling in all the bass, drums and other instruments without stepping on George’s stellar vocals and keyboard work. It’s a fitting anthem for any marriage.