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What started as an attempt to deliver a realistic archive of some of the singer songwriter's best songs has resulted in the release of ten new songs. On this release there's Movin On, a fast-paced jewel featuring electric guitar riffs, and smooth backing vocals delivered by the Culver City based Agape Choir's Rayshon Martin. Movin' was considered for the Garage Band Network's video game and other film and media outlets. Even so, it has a fun, tongue-in-cheek sensibility. Also featured prominently in four of these new tracks is the introduction of a very talented songwriter and percussionist Larry Graber. Back On The Road is the ultimate travelling companion, and highway song. Although written as a tribute song to Robert's friend Bill, it is a fresh, and vibrant juxtaposition of acoustic and electric guitars, framed by the rhythm of Graber's big wide, and healthy drum style. Graber is also fundamentally a drum healer - one who uses drums in transformational therapies for depression, anxiety, and other practicalities. "Larry's whole earth sensibility crept into my psyche when I was writing Pain Body, too, and the result is possibly my finest recorded work thus-far," Sawyer said. Then, there's Sooner Or Later, a shared persistence and working ethos very common to all during the financial crisis which occurred throughout the world in 2008, and into 2014. While this song is emotional, it is a beautiful melody. It also features the beautiful harmonies of Sawyer and Martin, glorious four part harmonies. It's somewhat erratic backbeat are very compelling. This song is for getting your beautiful melancholy on. Of course, there's: I'll Start The Fire, quite possibly Sawyer's most poignant song to date. Beautifully executed in the studio, features a metal dobro guitar reminiscent of early delta blues music from the thirties and forties. With well over a hundred thousand downloads to date, this is by far the biggest selling single of Robert's career. Those Moments is a bouncy, akin to the sixties, vibe with the sitar and the piano all mixed in with that voice. Very comparable to early solo Pete Townsend records. Sawyer's voice is the most compelling of all of his work on this piece. It's like a sensual canvas that's painted out before Sawyer's incredible searing solo guitar which launches after the last verse. An entire verse of Dreams was written by Anais Sawyer who had entered her lyrics for a rock song into a school competition in the 7th grade. She read the lyrics to her Dad, who had been working on the song Dreams with Larry Graber. "Incorporating her new lyrics into the third verse really helped to project the song into the whole that it needed, and it became something much better than it was as a result," says Sawyer from his Los Angeles home: "All in all we feel this recording is a positive snapshot born out of the uncertainty of a period of the early 21st century." The balance of the tracks are remastered versions from 2006's award-winning release Accolade, which Sawyer co-produced with Emit Rhoades. All of the remastered versions breath new intimate and incredibly detailed life into the sound. These songs now literally jump right out at you, an you can hear them as a much more liquid feeling than ever before.