Leejay has been writing melodies and lyrics since around the age of ten, when he used to sing heartbreak songs like “Since I Fell for You” and “I Can’t Stop Loving You” before he knew what heartbreak was—generally while out hunting for lizards or treasure up at the water tower or in the woods near home.  (He was also very fond of tunes like “Wooly Bully” and “Louie Louie,” so it wasn’t all bad [bad meaning sad].)  Leejay would like one day to write some songs half as timeless and inspirational as those by Hank Williams, Hank Cochran, Boudleaux Bryant, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Ian Tyson, Willie Nelson, The Beatles, The Stones, Dylan, The Band, Smokey Robinson, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Webb, John Prine, Gram Parsons, Bob Marley, Neil Young, Richard Thompson, Cat Stevens, Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett, or Bruce Springsteen, just to mention a few heroes.  In the meantime, he invites you to try out the songs on his new CD, Switchtracks, which owe a little something to all of the above and to many others whose work has also made a permanent home in his consciousness.  He hopes you like some of them, and he writes: “what you want to do, if you want you and your songs to sound good, is get yourself a producer as good as Dick Neal.  Hell: get the man himself if you can: he’s the real deal.”