For years, when I wrote something new, Mama was often among the first to hear it, to listen, encourage, respond and remind me to keep creating. Some of these songs were completed. Others remained ideas, conversations and voice notes waiting for another day. That day never came.

So, LOVE & HALLELUJAH embraces them as they are: complete and incomplete. A conversation between what was written then and what can be finished now; between love, loss, faith and the music that remains. She may no longer be here to hear the finished album, but somehow, I imagine she is still listening and smiling down from Heaven.

Love remains. The music remains. Hallelujah.